David Hemmings

David Hemmings is one of those actors who defines an entire cultural moment rather than just a filmography. His turn as the restless fashion photographer in Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966) is so perfectly of its time — all cool arrogance, sexual ambiguity, and mod London swagger — that it's hard to imagine anyone else pulling it off. What I find genuinely impressive is how he refused to be a one-trick sixties relic: he kept working steadily through the decades, popping up in Gladiator and Gangs of New York late in his career with the kind of weathered gravitas that comes from a lifetime on set. The fact that he also directed, produced, wrote, and even sang makes him feel like someone who was simply too restless to stop at one craft. Gone at 62 in 2003, and it still feels a little too soon.

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Name (English)

David Hemmings

Name (Japanese)

デヴィッド・ヘミングス

Reading

でゔぃっど・へみんぐす

Born

November 18, 1941 – December 3, 2003

Origin

Guildford, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / film director / film producer / screenwriter / singer-songwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hemmings
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310217

Tags

• actor
• film director
• film producer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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