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David Hemmings (November 18, 1941 - December 3, 2003) was a British movie actor, whose most famous role was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966), one of the films that best represented the spirit of the 1960s. He also appeared in Barbarella.
David Hemmings provided the narration for a rock album, Rick Wakeman's adaptation of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.
He started his career as a boy soprano, appearing in several works by Benjamin Britten, then moved on to an acting and directing career in the cinema. He made his first film appearance in 1954, but it was in the mid-sixties that he first became well-known as a pin-up and film star. Following
Blow-Up, he appeared in a string of major British films, including Camelot (1967), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and
Alfred the Great (1969) (in which he played the title role).
Living up to his glamorous image, Hemmings married four times, the most famous of his wives being the actress, Gayle Hunnicutt, mother of his son, Nolan Hemmings. He continued to act, appearing in many TV dramas. Throughout the '80s he also worked extensively as a director on programmes including The A-Team and Airwolf.
He died of a heart attack at the age of 62, in Romania, on the film set of
Samantha's Child, after playing his scenes for the day.
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