---
name: "Roy Hawkins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/roy-hawkins"
fi1m_id: "roy-hawkins"
imdb_id: "nm1340897"
tmdb_id: 2612131
wikidata_id: "Q2170854"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "7 February 1903"
died: "19 March 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:51:55.606567+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Roy Hawkins

## Identity

Roy Hawkins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/roy-hawkins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** roy-hawkins
- **IMDb ID:** nm1340897
- **TMDB ID:** 2612131
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2170854
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hawkins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2170854, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1340897/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2612131

Composer. Born 7 February 1903 in Jefferson, Texas, USA. Died 19 March 1974.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 7 February 1903, Jefferson, Texas, USA
- **Died:** 19 March 1974
- **Also known as:** Mr. Undertaker, Roy Theodore Hawkins
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (1), 2000s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hawkins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2170854, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1340897/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2612131

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Casino*](https://film.one/film/casino.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Roy Theodore Hawkins was an American blues singer, pianist and songwriter. Born in Jefferson, Texas, he performed in the Oakland, California area from the mid-1940s and began recording in 1948.

His 1950 single 'Why Do Things Happen to Me' and 1951 release 'The Thrill Is Gone' (co-written with Rick Darnell) became R&B hits. The latter was later covered by artists including B.B. King, Ray Charles and James Brown, and featured on film soundtracks such as *Casino* (1995), *Heat* (1995), *Heaven's Prisoners* (1996) and *Lost in Translation* (2003). Hawkins died in Compton, California, in 1974.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, allmusic.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Fi1m 86, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)
- *Casino* (1995), Fi1m 82, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/casino.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Christina Aguilera: Back to Basics - Live and Down Under* (2008), Music
- *Lost in Translation* (2003), Music — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/lost-in-translation.md)
- *Heaven's Prisoners* (1996), Music
- *Casino* (1995), Music — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/casino.md)
- *When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?* (1979), Music

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