David Hemmings

David Hemmings

Birthday: 1941-11-18

Place of Birth: Guildford, Surrey, England, UK

Biography: David Edward Leslie Hemmings (November 18, 1941 – December 3, 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.

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Gladiator
Gladiator

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of ...

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Blow-Up
Blow-Up

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and...

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Eye of the Devil
Eye of the Devil

A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret....

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Blessed
Blessed

Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, s...

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Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice

With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sol...

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Barbarella
Barbarella

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand....

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together ...

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Just a Gigolo
Just a Gigolo

After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no ski...

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Mean Machine
Mean Machine

Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting...

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Murder by Decree
Murder by Decree

Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's Ea...

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The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by t...

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Juggernaut
Juggernaut

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he ha...

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The Rainbow
The Rainbow

Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beaut...

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Last Orders
Last Orders

Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he...

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Thirst
Thirst

The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve th...

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Airwolf: The Movie
Airwolf: The Movie

Airwolf is capable of supersonic speeds, invisible to radar and armed with ultra state-of-the-art ha...

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The Heroin Busters
The Heroin Busters

Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their s...

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Camelot
Camelot

The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to S...

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Only When I Larf
Only When I Larf

A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitab...

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Thumbelina
Thumbelina

Thumbelina is the answer to her mother's prayers but is all too soon stolen away by Mother Toad as a...

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Islands in the Stream
Islands in the Stream

An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII....

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Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join ...

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Fragment of Fear
Fragment of Fear

Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is m...

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The Wind of Change
The Wind of Change

Taking its title from Harold Macmillan's widely-reported Cape Town speech about the process of decol...

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West 11
West 11

In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young u...

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The Squeeze
The Squeeze

An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved in a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of ...

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The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw

A governess is hired to look after two neglected children, who show signs of having been corrupted b...

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Beyond Reasonable Doubt

A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and ...

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The Painted Smile
The Painted Smile

Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie......

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The Real Oliver Reed
The Real Oliver Reed

A documentary portrait about the life and times of the infamous hellraiser, who died in May 1999, ha...

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Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Unman, Wittering and Zigo

A new schoolteacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his students, and he fears the sa...

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Power Play
Power Play

A group of military officers frustrated by government corruption and brutality attempts a coup....

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Charlie Muffin
Charlie Muffin

Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in...

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The Big Screen
The Big Screen

Two of Britain's leading film directors - John Schlesinger and Gerald Thomas - share the anxiety, ho...

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A Mind to Murder
A Mind to Murder

Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of ...

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The Walking Stick
The Walking Stick

A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome s...

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The Key to Rebecca
The Key to Rebecca

From master storyteller and best-selling author, Ken Follett, comes the exotic spy-thriller based on...

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The Long Day's Dying
The Long Day's Dying

Three British soldiers and their German captive trek through the European countryside....

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It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game

A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadis...

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Some People
Some People

Four teen-aged Teds are persuaded to form a rock group and undertake the Duke of Edinburgh Award Sch...

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The System
The System

In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sex...

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The Disappearance
The Disappearance

The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry...

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Man, Woman and Child
Man, Woman and Child

A California professor (Martin Sheen), his wife (Blythe Danner) and his daughters make room for his ...

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Africa Shakes
Africa Shakes

A musical drama shot in black-and-white to lend an air of gritty realism, Africa Shakes follows Brit...

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The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of d...

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Two Left Feet
Two Left Feet

Based on David Stuart Leslie's novel Two Left Feet is a story about Alan Crabbe (Michael Crawford a ...

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Auto Stop
Auto Stop

A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe....

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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson...

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No Trees in the Street
No Trees in the Street

Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England...

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Simon Simon
Simon Simon

A comedy short with very little speaking. Graham Stark and John Junkin have a new elevated platform ...

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The Best House in London
The Best House in London

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of street prostitutio...

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Voices
Voices

After her young son accidentally drowns, a woman has a breakdown and is finally placed in a mental h...

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Be My Guest
Be My Guest

A couple inherit a hotel with no guests until their son's pop group turns things around....

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Live It Up!
Live It Up!

A young postman, who fronts a pop group, dreams of being bigger than The Beatles. They record a demo...

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The Love Machine
The Love Machine

An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion....

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Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder
Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder

In a well received addition to the Disney original, Johnny Cash and Tim Dunigan play Davy Crockett. ...

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Blow Up of 'Blow-Up'
Blow Up of 'Blow-Up'

Documentary about Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film....

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3 On a Match
3 On a Match

A naive computer expert (Patrick Cassidy), a con artist (David Hemmings), and a tough guy (Bruce A. ...

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The Night We Called It a Day
The Night We Called It a Day

Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local r...

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Blood Relatives
Blood Relatives

A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary....

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The Counterfeit Man
The Counterfeit Man

On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creatin...

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A Dream of Living
A Dream of Living

A play that looks at the lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda, and Ernest Hemmingway in 1925...

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Lenny Blue
Lenny Blue

Two years after the events of Tough Love, Lenny Milton has been transferred, but still finds that he...

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Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane

An exploration of the myths surrounding the colorful Western heroine and both the legendary Wild Bil...

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Marlene
Marlene

Retrospective on the career of enigmatic screen diva Marlene Dietrich....

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The Swindle
The Swindle

A rude Roman policeman Nico Giraldi and an English detective team up in search of a gang that has ca...

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Equilibrium
Equilibrium

In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, a...

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Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...

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Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up

Tells the story of the photographers who cemented the image of swinging London and who, through thei...

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Dear Antonioni
Dear Antonioni

A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay....

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The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper

Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and so...

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Spy Game
Spy Game

On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested i...

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Play It Cool
Play It Cool

A struggling singer and his band befriend an heiress who, against the wishes of her father, is searc...

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Sink the Bismarck!
Sink the Bismarck!

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...

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The Heart Within
The Heart Within

A teenager is determines to clear the name of a black friend who is accused of murder....

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Harlequin
Harlequin

Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith heal...

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Deep Red
Deep Red

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help...

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Romantic
Romantic

The friendship of Gokhan and Omer is challenged when Omer falls in love with beautiful Yasemin. Gokh...

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All Eyes on Sharon Tate
All Eyes on Sharon Tate

Promotional short film on an aspiring young actress Sharon Tate and her first film Eye of the Devil ...

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Britten's Children
Britten's Children

Children and childhood fascinated Benjamin Britten throughout his life and inspired some of his grea...

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Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'

An in-depth look at the entire making of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Consisting of: Tale Of The Scrib...

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Harry's Hong Kong
Harry's Hong Kong

A private eye becomes the target of both a Chinese syndicate and the police during an investigation ...

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Horse Latitudes
Horse Latitudes

Based on the true story of Philip Stockton, a 40 year old Englishman, who would have done almost any...

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King's Rhapsody
King's Rhapsody

1957 BBC Television production of Ivor Novello’s musical featuring Vanessa Lee, reprising the role o...

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100 Greatest Sexy Moments
100 Greatest Sexy Moments

Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by ...

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The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen

Kay and Gerda are best friends. A wicked goblin who likes to cause trouble casts a spell on Kay to s...

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