David Hemmings

ABOUT DAVID HEMMINGS

Best remembered for his role as Thomas the fashion photographer in the 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni feature, Blowup, this British actor also had a career as a television and film director, working on Magnum P.I., Quantum Leap, and a horror movie titled The Survivor.

As a child and boy soprano, he was a protege of composer Benjamin Britten , who cast him in his 1954 opera version of Turn of the Screw.

In the late 1960s, he released a pop music album, David Hemmings Happens, that featured instrumentals by several musicians from the American rock band the Byrds.

Following his divorce from his first wife, Genista Ouvry, he had a seven-year marriage to American actress Gayle Hunnicutt . His final two marriages, the first of which produced four out of his six children, were to Prudence de Casembroot and Lucy Williams.

He directed Just a Gigolo, a 1978 film starring Marlene Dietrich .