David Hemmings
Gender: Male
Born: 18th November 1941
Died: 3rd December 2003
Nationality: England
Movies: Barbarella, Blowup, Camelot, Profondo Rosso, Eye of the Devil, Juggernaut, Last Orders, Gladiator, The Night We Called It a Day, Murder by Decree, Live It Up!, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Mean Machine, The Love Machine, Last Orders, Power Play, Alfred the Great, Harlequin, Equilibrium, Be My Guest, The Walking Stick, The Heroin Busters, The Long Day's Dying, Fragment of Fear, Islands in the Stream, The System, Thirst, Spy Game, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Man, Woman and Child, The Squeeze, Gangs of New York, Blessed, Crossed Swords, Squadra antitruffa, Five Clues to Fortune, Lola, Prisoners, The Heart Within, Swan Lake, Voices, Only When I Larf, Airwolf: The Movie, Beyond Reasonable Doubt, The Disappearance
David Hemmings (18 November 1941 – 3 December 2003) was an English film, theatre and television actor as well as a film and television director and producer.
He is noted for his role as the photographer in the drama mystery-thriller film Blowup (1966), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Early in his career, Hemmings was a boy soprano appearing in operatic roles. In his later acting career, he was known for his distinctive eyebrows and gravelly voice.
He was born David Edward Leslie Hemmings in Guildford, Surrey. His education at Alleyn's School and the Glyn Grammar School (now the Glyn Technology School) led him to start his career performing as a boy soprano in several works by the composer Benjamin Britten, who formed a close friendship with him at this time. Most notably, Hemmings created the role of Miles in Britten's chamber opera Turn of the Screw (1954). His intimate, yet innocent, relationship with Britten is described in John Bridcut's book Britten's Children (2006). Although many commentators identified Britten's relationship with Hemmings as based on an infatuation, throughout his life Hemmings maintained categorically that Britten's conduct with him was beyond reproach
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