David Hemmings

I've seen very few actors of the same appeal, and when I have they frequently have been British.

Hywel Bennett has the same sort of appeal: not classically handsome, but unforgettable in appearance.

I thought he was great looking. I’m surprised he didn’t become a superstar.

He started off as a boy soprano, singing roles in Benjamin Britten's works -under the composer's... baton. There are some stories there. Britten dumped him when he hit puberty, and that's when he took up acting. In the mid-70s he appeared as Bertie Wooster in the original Andrew Lloyd Webber version of JEEVES (not the rewritten BY JEEVES that came later).

Maybe not classically handsome, but he aged spectacularly

Wasn't he in The Love Machine?

R4, are we talking about the same man?

I can watch this scene of Hemmings and Redgrave again and again.

Good thriller I saw him in. Something about a drug addled writer.

R6 yes. He stuns

R5, yes he was, playing a gay man. There is a hilarious four-way cat fight between him, Dyan Cannon, the main character, and another guy late in the film.

She was hideous in an episode of Murder She Wrote.

He is gorgeous! He looks a bit like a young Christopher Hitchens, but more handsome. Is there a term for hot British guys with that look? I once dated a guy that looked like him, what a cutie

My sister called him Smugzilla

He was always asking for it.

Yes R3 there are some stories covered extensively in this documentary.

David Hemmings appears several times but the longest is at the 57:00 mark and goes for about ten minutes. He wasn't "dumped", always wanted to be an actor and didn't consider himself a very good singer.

My dad screened Blow Up for me in my early teens, in the late 90s. Imagine my shock when we saw Gladiator in the cinema a few years later. I stifled a light scream when viewing the closing credits.

An amazing film with an intriguing title: UNMAN, WITTERING AND ZIGO. Made in 1971, set in a boy's school, and produced with money Hemmings sunk into the project. Bonus: Michael Kitchen as a very nasty schoolboy.

Probably "green lit" only because of the success of IF. . . And just as vicious, and filled with naked twinks. It could not be made today.

On Amazon Prime.

Whenever my eyebrows are out of control I think of David Hemmings.

Fun Fact: the snazzy jacket Adam Ant wears in the video for "Goody Two Shoes" is the same one David Hemmings wore in "Charge of the Light Brigade". I think Hemmings gave it to him IIRC.

[quote]He was always asking for it.

And probably getting it.

He was boyish and pretty, very much the ideal male type in the ‘60s.

Hemmings and Terence Stamp had an edge to them that made them seem harder, more masculine, while Leonard Whiting was just pretty and twinky the way a lot of successful pop singers were in the ‘60s and early ‘70s — Davey Jones, Oliver, Bobby Sherman.

[quote]He was boyish and pretty, very much the ideal male type in the ‘60s.

Another very pretty boy from the '60s: Paul McCartney.

Odd, how in “Gladiator” his bewigged Master of the Games completely disappears, without any explanation. I assume he was killed off at some point, but the sequence was deleted. It’s not even included in deleted scenes I’ve seen.