David Hemmings is dead.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1099925,00.html

Great sixties actor, Barbarella, Blow-Up, Charge of the Light Brigade, etc.

[soleft]

1. He was partly the inspiration for Austin Powers wasn't he?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

2. Yeah, in the Blow-Up role.

[CBHagman]

3. Oh, no.

I remember the first David Hemmings film I saw ("Alfred the Great," of all things), back in the 1970s.

He's done some interesting roles, including in television, in recent years. I remember being startled to find his name the cast list for "The Gangs of New York." (Then again, practically everyone was in that!)

He will be missed.