Gideon's Day (originally released in the United States as Gideon of Scotland Yard) is a 1958 police procedural crime film starring Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster and Cyril Cusack.
 The film, which was directed by John Ford, was adapted from John Creasey's novel of the same name.
"Waking the Dead" is a British television police procedural crime drama series that was produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist.
 Nine series of the show were broadcast over the course of eleven years.
Criminal Minds is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Jeff Davis, and is the original show in the "Criminal Minds" franchise.
 It premiered on September 22, 2005, on the broadcast network CBS and October 5, 2005, on CTV.
 The series is produced by The Mark Gordon Company, in association with CBS Television Studios and ABC Studios (a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company).
 "Criminal Minds" is set primarily at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) based in Quantico, Virginia.
 In accordance with the show's plot, "Criminal Minds" differs from many procedural dramas by focusing on profiling the criminal, called the unsub or "unknown subject", rather than the crime itself.
H.I.T (), also known as Homicide Investigation Team, is a 2007 South Korean television series starring Go Hyun-jung, Ha Jung-woo, Kim Jung-min, and Yoon Ji-min.
 It aired on MBC from March 19 to May 22, 2007 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
 A police procedural crime drama that integrated crime scene analysis with action, suspense, and romance, "H.I.T" represented a departure from the usual Korean drama subjects of love and relationships.
"21 Jump Street" is an American police procedural crime drama television series that aired on the Fox Network and in first run syndication from April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991, with a total of 103 episodes.
 The series focuses on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools, colleges, and other teenage venues.
Unforgettable is an American police procedural crime drama television series that premiered on CBS on September 20, 2011.
 The series was developed by Ed Redlich and John Bellucci, and stars Poppy Montgomery as Detective Carrie Wells, a female police detective with an unusually detailed and photographic memory.
The Long Arm (USA: The Third Key) is a 1956 British film noir police procedural crime film starring Jack Hawkins.
 The film, which is based on a screenplay by Robert Barr, was directed by Charles Frend and produced by Michael Balcon.
 It was shot on location in London and Snowdonia in North Wales.
Backup is a British television police procedural crime drama series, focusing on the work of a police Operational Support Unit, similar to the Territorial Support Group.
 Created by Nigel McCrery and Roy Mitchell, who famous co-created "Silent Witness" and "New Tricks", the series ran for a total of fourteen episodes across two series, and was broadcast on BBC One between 1995 and 1997.
 Martin Troakes, Christopher John Hall and Nick Miles star as the main protagonists of the series, Bill Parkin, Eric Warren and John Barrett.
 Initial press releases for the series stated, "When things get too much for the officers on the front line, they call for Backup, the Operational Support Unit (OSU)."
Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional London-based Cold Case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist.
 A pilot episode aired in September 2000, and there were a total of nine series.
 Each story is split into two hour-long episodes, shown on consecutive nights on BBC One.
 A third series episode won an International Emmy Award in 2004.
 The programme was also shown on BBC America in the United States, though these screenings are edited to allow for advertising breaks, as well as UKTV in Australia and New Zealand and ABC1 in Australia.
 The show aired its final episode on 11 April 2011.
 A spin-off from the series, titled "The Body Farm", revolving around forensic scientist Eve Lockhart (Tara Fitzgerald), was announced by the BBC in January 2011 and ran for just one series.
John Edward Hawkins, CBE (14 September 1910 – 18 July 1973) was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s.
 One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he was best known for his portrayal of military men in films like "Angels One Five" (1951), "The Cruel Sea" (1953), "Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), "Ben Hur" (1959) and "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962).

Question: What english actor starred in the 1958 police procedural crime film whose worked on stage and in film from 1930s until the 1970s?
Answer: Jack Hawkins