Jack Livesey

{{Short description|British actor (1901–1961)}}

{{for multi|the English footballer|Jack Livesey (footballer)|the British military imposter|Jack Livesey (impostor)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Jack Livesey

| image = Jack_Livesey.jpg

| caption = In Penny Paradise (1938)

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| birth_name = Jack Edwards Livesey

| birth_date = 11 June 1901

| birth_place = Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

| death_date = {{death date and age|1961|10|12|1901|6|11|df=y}}

| death_place = Burbank, California, U.S.

| parents = Sam Livesey
Margaret Ann Edwards

| othername =

| occupation = Film actor

| yearsactive = 1918–1961

}}

Jack Edwards Livesey (11 June 1901 – 12 October 1961) was a British film actor.{{Cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/187049?view=credit |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | LIVESEY, Jack |access-date=2010-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021220112/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/187049?view=credit |archive-date=2012-10-21 |url-status=dead }}

He was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, the son of Sam Livesey, the brother of Barry Livesey, and the cousin and step-brother of Roger Livesey. He died in Burbank, California, aged 60.

On stage he appeared in the hit West End musical The Lisbon Story from 1943 to 1944.

In 1960, he portrayed Gillespie MacKenzie in an episode of the Western series Maverick titled "Cruise of the Cynthia B" starring James Garner and Mona Freeman. Garner's character (Bret Maverick) finds him hanging from a tree in the opening scene, cuts him down, and subsequently regrets it.