---
name: "Screamin' Jay Hawkins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/screamin-jay-hawkins"
fi1m_id: "screamin-jay-hawkins"
imdb_id: "nm0370221"
tmdb_id: 942004
wikidata_id: "Q455754"
roles: ["Songs"]
born: "18 July 1929"
died: "12 February 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T21:58:11.116892+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."
---

# Screamin' Jay Hawkins

## Identity

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/screamin-jay-hawkins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** screamin-jay-hawkins
- **IMDb ID:** nm0370221
- **TMDB ID:** 942004
- **Wikidata ID:** Q455754
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamin%27_Jay_Hawkins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455754, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370221/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/942004

Songs. Born 18 July 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Died 12 February 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Songs
- **Born:** 18 July 1929, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- **Died:** 12 February 2000
- **Also known as:** スクリーミン・ジェイ・ホーキンズ, Jalacy J. Hawkins
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 crew, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 82 (1), 1990s 71 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamin%27_Jay_Hawkins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455754, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370221/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/942004

## Biography

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, born Jalacy J. Hawkins, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He is known for his 1956 recording of 'I Put a Spell on You' and for his theatrical stage performances that incorporated macabre props.

Hawkins appeared in several films, including as the Night Clerk in *Mystery Train* (1989), as a Blues Club Singer in *Two Moon Junction* (1988), as himself in *A Rage in Harlem* (1991), as Adolfo in *Perdita Durango* (1997) and as Chanteur Bouge in *Peut-être* (1999). He died in 2000.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Stranger Than Paradise* (1984), Fi1m 82, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/stranger-than-paradise.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *A Rage in Harlem* (1991), Fi1m 71, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/a-rage-in-harlem.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Peut-être* (1999), as Chanteur Bouge
- *Dance with the Devil* (1997), as Adolfo
- *Mystery Train* (1989), as Night Clerk
- *Two Moon Junction* (1988), as Blues Club Singer
- *Joey* (1986), Actor
- *Stranger Than Paradise* (1984), as Songs — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/stranger-than-paradise.md)

## Gallery

- ![Photo of Screamin' Jay Hawkins from his appearance on the Alan Freed television program Rock 'N' Roll Revue. (1957)](https://film.one/media/person/361753/gallery-641cecea7948.jpg) Photo of Screamin' Jay Hawkins from his appearance on the Alan Freed television program Rock 'N' Roll Revue. (1957) — ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Screamin_Jay_Hawkins_1957.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Screamin' Jay Hawkins au Festival National de Blues du Creusot (France, 71) en 1995.](https://film.one/media/person/361753/gallery-e14ad9823366.jpg) Screamin' Jay Hawkins au Festival National de Blues du Creusot (France, 71) en 1995. — Stéphane Marion, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Screamin%27Eyes.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Screamin' Jay Hawkins at The Edge, Toronto, April 1, 1979](https://film.one/media/person/361753/gallery-679861765205.jpg) Screamin' Jay Hawkins at The Edge, Toronto, April 1, 1979 — Jean-Luc Ourlin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Screaming_Jay_Hawkins.jpg/1280px-Screaming_Jay_Hawkins.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Screamin' Jay Hawkins](https://film.one/media/person/361753/gallery-2f2135a6b8a8.jpg) Screamin' Jay Hawkins — Image via TMDB

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