Known for:	Gladiator, Gangs of New York, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Birthday:	18 November 1941, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Height:	5' 10" (1.78 m)

Father of actor Nolan Hemmings 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. Father of six children - one daughter by his first wife, one son Nolan by his second wife and three sons and one daughter by his third wife. He had just finished filming scenes for the movie, "Samantha's Child", when he suffered a heart attack and died. As a teen he left home and headed for Austria where he performed magic and played the guitar in nightclubs. Most people who knew him as the handsome leading man from "Blow-Up" didn't recognize him as the stocky character actor from the films he was in later in his career. A professional singer by the age of 9. An exhibited painter by the age of 15. 1967: Co-founded the HemDale Corporation with John Daly. However he left the company in 1970. Recorded a pop album in Los Angeles in 1967, entitled David Hemmings Happens, backed by several members of The Byrds, and produced by Byrds mentor Jim Dickinson. A single was released, "Back Street Mirror", written by the former Byrd Gene Clark (who never recorded it himself).

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