John Alderton married his co-star, Jill Browne, but they later divorced. After an uncredited role in "Cleopatra" (1963), and appearing in British films such as "The System" (1964), "Assignment K" (1968), "Duffy" (1968) and "Hannibal Brooks" (1969), he played the lead in the comedy series "Please Sir!", as hapless teacher Mr Hedges, which later resulted in him also playing the character in the 1971 feature film of the same name. In 1972 he appeared with Hannah Gordon in the BBC comedy series "My Wife Next Door" which ran for 13 episodes, and for which he won a Jacob's Award in 1975. He
Lucas Hedges "The Zero Theorem" (2013). In 2014, Hedges had a minor role in Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and played the son of Jeremy Renner's character in Michael Cuesta's drama "Kill the Messenger", which was based on CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking. The latter led the critic Todd McCarthy to label him as "very good" and Rodrigo Perez of IndieWire considered him to be the "surprise stand-out of the cast". In 2015, he was cast in the NBC miniseries "The Slap", which was adapted from the Australian series of the same name. Hedges next joined the cast of Kenneth Lonergan's