Personal Info
Birth date
1935-01-03 (90 Years)
Day of death
2019-07-19
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
Also known as
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Jeremy Kemp
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jeremy Kemp (3 January 1935 - 19 July 2019) was an English actor. He was known for his roles in the miniseries The Winds of War, The Blue Max and Z-Cars. Kemp was born Jeremy Walker in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the son of Elsa May (née Kemp) and Edmund Reginald Walker, an engineer, and studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His TV credits include: Colditz, Space: 1999 and a number of American series such as: Hart to Hart, The Greatest American Hero, The Fall Guy, Conan the Adventurer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance and Murder, She Wrote. His film roles include: Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Operation Crossbow, The Blue Max, A Bridge Too Far, Top Secret! and Four Weddings and a Funeral. He also appeared as Cornwall in the 1984 TV movie version of King Lear opposite Laurence Olivier as Lear. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeremy Kemp, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Star Trek: The Next Generation
8.368
Overview:
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Overview:
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.Z-Cars
7
Overview:
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.The BBC Television Shakespeare
6
Overview:
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.Hart to Hart
6.831
Overview:
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.The Wednesday Play
4.5
Overview:
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.Space: 1999
7.1
Overview:
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.The Greatest American Hero
7.2
Overview:
The chronicles of teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often with comical results.Sherlock Holmes
8.1
Overview:
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.Playhouse
7
Overview:
BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Among its many notable guest stars were Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn, and Peggy Ashcroft. It premiered in the UK on March 13, 1974 and ran through May 20, 1983.The Winds of War
7.275
Overview:
Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.Conan the Adventurer
6.2
Overview:
Conan: The Adventurer is an American television series created, developed, financed, distributed and produced by Max A. Keller and Micheline Keller from 1997 to 1998 and loosely based on the fantasy hero Conan the Barbarian. The TV show premiered on September 22, 1997, and ran for 22 episodes. The series has been broadcast in over 150 countries throughout the world. Keller Entertainment Group continues to market and distribute the series worldwide and the series has longevity among international broadcasters and dvd aggregators. The series will soon be available on the internet. This live-action series stars Ralf Möller as Conan of Cimmeria and Danny Woodburn as his sidekick Otli. The storyline is quite different from the Conan lore created in the original Conan novels and short stories by Robert E. Howard, as well as that of the Conan earlier depicted in the various Conan comic book series by Marvel Comics. The TV character is based on the version in the 1980s films, but there is no continuity between the films and TV series.The Rhinemann Exchange
6.1
Overview:
During World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an exchange in Argentina of industrial diamonds needed by the Germans for a secret gyroscope needed by the Allies.War and Remembrance
7.871
Overview:
War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.Peter the Great
8.2
Overview:
Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.Colditz
7.3
Overview:
Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974. The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle when designated Oflag IV-C during World War II, and their many attempts to escape captivity, as well as the relationships formed between the various nationalities and their German captors.Summer's Lease
7.5
Overview:
Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman. For most of her life she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small ads Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.Four Weddings and a Funeral
6.772
Overview:
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.Cleopatra
7.041
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Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.A Bridge Too Far
7.232
Overview:
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.Top Secret!
7.083
Overview:
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.George Washington
7.4
Overview:
This 1984 miniseries chronicles the life of George Washington, the 1st President of the United States, from age 11 to age 51. Based on the biography by James Thomas Flexner.Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
6.4
Overview:
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.Acting
2012Amicus: House of Horrors as Unknown, Self
1997Conan the Adventurer (22 Episodes) as Hissah Zul
1995Angels and Insects as Sir Harald Alabaster
1994Four Weddings and a Funeral as Sir John Delaney - Wedding Two
1992Duel of Hearts as Lord Milborne
1991Prisoner of Honor as Gen. de Pellieux
1989Summer's Lease as Unknown
1989When the Whales Came as Mr. Wellbeloved
1988War and Remembrance (12 Episodes) as Brig. Gen. Armin Von Roon
1988Reasonable Force as Pomeroy
1987Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 Episode) as Robert Picard
1986Peter the Great (4 Episodes) as Col. Patrick Gordon
1985Screen Two (1 Episode) as Pomeroy
1984Murder, She Wrote (1 Episode) as Minister Melnikov
1984Top Secret! as General Streck
1984Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode) as Dr Grimesby Roylott
1984George Washington (3 Episodes) as Gen. Horatio Gates
1984Jesus: The Evidence (1 Episode) as Themselves
1983Uncommon Valor as Ferryman
1983Sadat (2 Episodes) as Thompson
1983Feet Foremost as Ampleforth
1983King Lear as Cornwall
1983The Winds of War (7 Episodes) as Brigadier General Armin Von Roon
1983The Phantom of the Opera as Baron Hunyadi
1983The Return of the Soldier as Frank
1981Contract as George
1981Unity as Putzi Hanfstaengl
1981The Greatest American Hero (1 Episode) as Unknown
1981Evita Peron as German Official
1981The Winter's Tale as Leontes
1979Jamaican Gold as Reginald Landers
1979Hart to Hart (1 Episode) as Unknown
1979The Prisoner of Zenda as Duke Michael
1979Leopard in the Snow as Bolt
1979Henry VIII as Duke of Norfolk
1979School Play as James Lombard
1978The BBC Television Shakespeare (1, 1 Episode) as Duke of Norfolk, Leontes
1978Caravans as Dr. Smythe
1978Liza as Lavretsky
1978Keefer as Kliest
1977East of Elephant Rock as Harry Rawlins
1977A Bridge Too Far as R.A.F. Briefing Officer
1977The Rhinemann Exchange (3 Episodes) as Geoffrey Moore
1976The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Baron Karl von Leinsdorf
1976Double Echo as Dr Mallam
1975Lips of Lurid Blue as George Stevens
1975Space: 1999 (1 Episode) as Ernst Linden
1975Brassneck as Unknown
1975Goodbye as Tony Lyle
1974Hardness 10 (5 Episodes) as Sir Harold Ames
1974Playhouse (1 Episode) as James Lombard
1973The Blockhouse as Grabinski
1973The Belstone Fox as John Kendrick
1972Colditz (1 Episode) as Sq. Ldr. Tony Shaw
1972Pope Joan as Joan's Father
1970Play for Today (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Reader, Kuznetsov's 'Prison Diaries' (voice), Tony Lyle, Roderick Bagley
1970The Games as Jim Harcourt
1970Darling Lili as Colonel Kurt Von Ruger
1970Eyewitness as Inspector Galleria
1968A Twist of Sand as Harry Riker
1968The Strange Affair as Det. Sgt. Pierce
1968Assignment K as Hal
1966The Blue Max as Willi von Klugermann
1966Cast a Giant Shadow as Senior British Officer
1965Contract to Kill (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1965Operation Crossbow as Captain Phil Bradley
1965Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as Jerry Drake (segment 2 "Creeping Vine")
1964The Wednesday Play (1 Episode) as Squadron-Leader Jack Cooper
1964Face of a Stranger as Unknown
1963Cleopatra as Agitator (uncredited)
1962Z-Cars (33, 1 Episode) as PC Bob Steele, Vagrant
1956The Battle of the River Plate as Gunner, HMS Achilles (uncredited)