David Leslie Edward Hemmings Net Worth is $1 Million
David Leslie Edward Hemmings Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
David Edward Leslie Hemmings (18 November 1941 – 3 December 2003) was an English film, theatre and television actor as well as a film and television director and producer. He and his manager created the Hemdale Film Corporation in 1967.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.
"People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing The A-Team (1983).
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Look at the film buyers and sellers in Cannes any year and you're basically looking at a lot of shoe-salesmen working out whether it should be sneakers or lace-ups next year.
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I don't mind autograph hunters when I go down the fish and chip shop. As long as I get my chips.
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Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.
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I quite like being mobbed. After all it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting is all about - being recognised.
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Is mentioned by name in episode 6 of season 1 of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'.
Told movie critic Roger Ebert in a February 1967 interview that he was going to appear in a movie adaption of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1971), with a script by Terry Southern, in 1968. Hemmings did not mention Stanley Kubrick to Ebert. Southern gave Kubrick a copy of "A Clockwork Orange" but the director ignored it as he was working on developing a biography of Napoléon Bonaparte after finishing 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Reportedly, one of the actors Kubrick considered to play the French soldier and emperor was Hemmings.
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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.
Recorded a pop album, in Los Angeles in 1967, titled "David Hemmings Happens", backed by several members of The Byrds and produced by The 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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1967: Co-founded the HemDale Corporation with John Daly. However, he left the company in 1970.
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An exhibited painter by the age of 15.
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A professional singer by the age of 9.
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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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As a teen he left home and headed for Austria where he performed magic and played the guitar in nightclubs.
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He had just finished filming scenes for the movie, Blessed (2004) (aka Samantha's Child), when he suffered a heart attack and died.
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Father of six children - one daughter by his first wife, one son Nolan Hemmings by his second wife, Gayle Hunnicutt, and three sons and one daughter by his third wife.
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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.
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