[4] Hawkins spent the early part of his childhood in Forest Hills section of Queens, as well as in Texas and Tennessee.
He was athletic and was one of the faster boys at his grade school, Munsey Park School, and started his acting and singing career in a fourth-grade production of the Gilbert Sullivan operetta, HMS Pinafore, as Captain Corcoran.
He later replaced David Birney as Mark Elliott on another CBS show, Love is a Many Splendored Thing.
Hawkins later created the role of Frank Ryan on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope but was fired from the role at the end of the show's first year reportedly due to his alcoholism and inability to memorize lines correctly.
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