David Hemmings
David Hemmings ( born November 18, 1941 in Guildford, Surrey, † December 3, 2003 in Bucharest, Romania ) was a British actor and director.
Life
Hemmings began as a twelve year old with acting. However, he had first successes as a boy soprano on the opera stage. So he created in the premiere of Benjamin Britten's " The Turn of the Screw" on September 14, 1954 at the Festival of Venice, the role of Miles. A recording of the opera in the cast of the premiere came out on Decca. In 1955 he sang also at Decca in the complete recording of the children's opera " The Little Sweep" by the same composer. To a singing career but it never came. Instead, he turned to acting. From a young age his international breakthrough in the role of scene photographer Thomas in the multilayered film artwork Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni. More films followed, most recently The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York and Ridley Scott's Gladiator.
One of the most successful films Hemmings ' was Charlie Muffin (1979, based on the novel by Brian Freemantle ), directed by Jack Gold. Only in recent years he managed a comeback as an actor. So he put in Ridley Scott's Gladiator film Cassius is, dipped in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, played a supporting role in the movie Spy Game and played in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen on the side of Sean Connery.
Even as a director Hemmings was successful. One of his first directorial work was the film Beautiful Gigolo, Poor Gigolo, in which he also played a major role and Marlene Dietrich her last film role. For television, he worked as a director. Under his direction, among other things, individual episodes and sometimes whole seasons of the series Airwolf, Magnum, Stingray, Quantum Leap and The A-Team in the 1980s emerged.
David Hemmings died during the filming of a new movie from a heart attack. He was four times married and had six children.