David Hemmings
Acting • Born 1941-11-18 – Died 2003-12-03
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.
Filmography
111 credits
Gladiator
Movie • 2000
Cassius
Blow-Up
Movie • 1966
Thomas
Eye of the Devil
Movie • 1966
Christian
Blessed
Movie • 2004
Earl Sidney
Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice
Movie • 2002
Martin Fox
Barbarella
Movie • 1968
Dildano
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Movie • 2003
Nigel
Just a Gigolo
Movie • 1978
Captain Hermann Kraft
Mean Machine
Movie • 2001
Governor
Murder by Decree
Movie • 1979
Inspector Foxborough
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Movie • 1968
Capt. Louis Edward Nolan
Juggernaut
Movie • 1974
Charlie Braddock
The Rainbow
Movie • 1989
Uncle Henry
Last Orders
Movie • 2001
Lenny
Thirst
Movie • 1979
Dr. Fraser
Airwolf: The Movie
Movie • 1984
Dr. Charles Henry Moffet
The Heroin Busters
Movie • 1977
Mike Hamilton
Camelot
Movie • 1967
Mordred
Only When I Larf
Movie • 1968
Bob
Thumbelina
Movie • 1984
Narrator (voice)
Islands in the Stream
Movie • 1977
Eddy
Alfred the Great
Movie • 1969
Alfred
Fragment of Fear
Movie • 1970
Tim Brett
The Wind of Change
Movie • 1961
Ginger
West 11
Movie • 1963
Bullying Youth
The Squeeze
Movie • 1977
Keith
The Turn of the Screw
Movie • 1989
Mister Harley
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Movie • 1980
Insp. Bruce Hutton
The Painted Smile
Movie • 1962
Roy
The Real Oliver Reed
Movie • 2000
Narrator
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Movie • 1971
John Ebony
Power Play
Movie • 1978
Colonel Anthony Narriman
Charlie Muffin
Movie • 1979
Charlie Muffin
The Big Screen
Movie • 1973
Self
A Mind to Murder
Movie • 1995
Godbolt
The Walking Stick
Movie • 1970
Leigh Hartley
The Key to Rebecca
Movie • 1985
Maj. Smith
The Long Day's Dying
Movie • 1968
John
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
Movie • 1974
Juan
Some People
Movie • 1962
Bert
The System
Movie • 1964
David
The Disappearance
Movie • 1977
Edward
Man, Woman and Child
Movie • 1983
Gavin Wilson
Africa Shakes
Movie • 1966
The Old Curiosity Shop
Movie • 1975
Richard Swiveller
Two Left Feet
Movie • 1963
Brian
Auto Stop
Movie • 1965
Henry
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Movie • 1980
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde
No Trees in the Street
Movie • 1959
Kenny
Simon Simon
Movie • 1970
Man in Car with Posters
The Best House in London
Movie • 1969
Benjamin Oakes / Walter Leybourne
Voices
Movie • 1973
Robert
Be My Guest
Movie • 1965
Dave
Live It Up!
Movie • 1963
The Love Machine
Movie • 1971
Jerry Nelson
Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder
Movie • 1988
President Andrew Jackson
Blow Up of 'Blow-Up'
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
3 On a Match
Movie • 1987
Maxwell 'Newt' Newton
The Night We Called It a Day
Movie • 2003
Mickey Rudin
Blood Relatives
Movie • 1978
Armstrong
The Counterfeit Man
Movie • 1965
Roger Westcott
A Dream of Living
Movie • 1975
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lenny Blue
Movie • 2002
DCI Tommy Gillespie
Calamity Jane
Movie • 1984
Capt. James O'Neill
Marlene
Movie • 1984
Himself
The Swindle
Movie • 1977
Robert Clayton
Equilibrium
Movie • 2002
Proctor
Gangs of New York
Movie • 2002
Mr. Schermerhorn
Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up
Movie • 2002
Self
Dear Antonioni
Movie • 1995
Self
The Prince and the Pauper
Movie • 1977
Hugh Hendon
Spy Game
Movie • 2001
Harry Duncan
Play It Cool
Movie • 1962
Uncredited
Sink the Bismarck!
Movie • 1960
Seaman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
The Heart Within
Movie • 1957
Danny Willard
Harlequin
Movie • 1980
Nick Rast
Deep Red
Movie • 1975
Marcus Daly
Romantic
Movie • 2007
Sadun
All Eyes on Sharon Tate
Movie • 1966
Self
Britten's Children
Movie • 2004
Self
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'
Movie • 2005
Self
Harry's Hong Kong
Movie • 1987
Jack Rourke
Horse Latitudes
Movie • 1975
King's Rhapsody
Movie • 1957
The Boy King
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Movie • 2003
Self
The Snow Queen
Movie • 1985
Reindeer (voice)
The Christmas Messenger
Movie • 1975
(voice)
Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues
Movie • 1985
Ian Blaze
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Errol Pogson
Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Lord Archibald 'Binkie' Smythe-White
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
TV • 1993
Durham
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Charles Lamb
Airwolf
TV • 1984
Dr. Charles Henry Moffett
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Ex-DCI Malcolm Finlay
Nightmare Classics
TV • 1989
Mister Harley
Masquerade
TV • 1983
Marlos
Clouds of Glory
TV • 1978
Samuel T. Coleridge
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Mr. Stronham (segment "Loved to Death")
Out of the Unknown
TV • 1965
Roger Westcott
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
Narrator (voice)
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
Reindeer (voice)
Five Clues to Fortune
TV • 1957
Ken
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
TV • 1993
Self
Murder in Mind
TV • 2001
Judge James Hendon
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
TV • 2011
Self (archive footage from "Blow-Up")
Northern Exposure
TV • 1990
Viktor Bobrov
Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Danny
Film '72
TV • 1971
Self
Out of This World
TV • 1962
Journalist
Drama 61-67
TV • 1961
Eddie
The Vanishing Man
TV • 1997
Edward Lawrence