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David Hemmings (18 November, 1941 – 3 December, 2003) was a British movie actor and director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up in 1966 (opposite Vanessa Redgrave), one of the films that best represented the spirit of the 1960s. He also appeared in Barbarella
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Born in Guildford, Surrey, 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).

He provided the narration for a rock album, Rick Wakeman's adaptation of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Living up to his glamorous image, Hemmings married four times, the most famous of his wives being the Fort Worth, Texas-born actress and long-term British resident, Gayle Hunnicutt, mother of his son, Nolan Hemmings. He continued to act, appearing in many TV dramas.

In 1981 he directed a film version of James Herbert's novel The Survivor, starring Robert Powell and Jenny Agutter.

Throughout the 1980s Hemmings also worked extensively as a director on programmes including The A-Team and Airwolf, in which he played the role of Dr. Charles Henry Moffett. In 1984 he directed the puzzle contest video Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link.

He also had a role in the hit Russell Crowe film, Gladiator, in 2000.

He died of a heart attack, aged 62, in Romania, on the film set of Samantha's Child, after playing his scenes for the day.

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