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Actor, David Hemmings, was born David Leslie Edward Hemmings on Nov 18, 1941 in Guildford, England. Hemmings died at the age of 62 on Dec 3, 2003 in Bucharest, Romania .

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Warner Archive: as Alfred the Great (1969)

By KC on Sep 14, 2016 From Classic Movies

Making its Warner Archive DVD debut, Alfred the Great isn't an unheralded classic, though it has some fascinating elements. Starring in the title role and Michael York as Guthram, a brutal Viking with a Prince Valiant bob, it's a visually striking epic with inventive battle scenes, an... Read full article


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David Hemmings Quotes:

Thomas: She isn't my wife, really. We just have some kids. No, no kids, not even kids. Sometimes, though, it feels as if we had kids. She isn't beautiful, she's... easy to live with. No, she isn't. That's why I don't live with her.


Jane: What are you doing? Stop it! Stop it! Give me those pictures. You can't photograph people like that.
Thomas: Who says I can't? I'm only doing my job. Some people are bullfighters, some people are politicians. I'm a photographer.


Thomas: Someone's been killed. I want you to see the corpse.


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David Hemmings Facts
Stanley Kubrick reportedly wanted him to play the lead role in an epic biography of Napoleon which was planned, but never filmed, in the early 1970s.

Started his career as a boy-soprano of some note. Benjamin Britten composed some of his most important child parts for him, i.a. Miles in "The Turn of the Screw". He was renowned for his mature and intelligent vocal interpretations of these parts and many have never been bettered since.

Most people who knew him as the handsome leading man from Blow-Up (1966) didn't recognize him as the stocky character actor from the films he was in later in his career.

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