Jeremy Kemp

Jeremy Kemp was born on Jan 03, 1935 in UK. Jeremy Kemp's big-screen debut came with Pursuit of the Graf Spee directed by Michael Powell in 1956, strarring Gunner, HMS Achilles (uncredited). Jeremy Kemp is known for Four Weddings and a Funeral directed by Mike Newell, Hugh Grant stars as Charles - Wedding One and James Fleet as Tom - Wedding One. The upcoming new tvshow Jeremy Kemp plays is Conan the Adventurer - Season 1 which will be released on Sep 22, 1997.

This fair-haired, craggy-faced English character actor was born Edmund Jeremy James Walker, scion of Yorkshire landed gentry. After national service with the Gordon Highlanders and the Black Watch, Kemp adopted his mother's maiden name as his stage moniker and studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He then made the rounds of repertory theatre and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Old Vic for two seasons. On the London stage from 1958, he tended to specialise in portraying military or aristocratic types. That same year, Kemp won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary award which led to a six-month contract with the BBC's Radio Drama Company.His screen career had actually begun four years earlier but had not amounted to much until the early 60s. Kemp spent a year as PC Steele in the original cast of the long-running police series Z Cars (1962) and his consequent popularity ensured that a number of juicy (mainly military) roles came his way on both the small and the big screen: Squadron Leader Tony Shaw in the wartime POW drama Colditz (1972), the aristocratic German fighter ace Willi von Klugermann mentoring Le crépuscule des aigles (1966), the spy Colonel Kurt Von Ruger in Darling Lili (1970), Brigadier General Armin von Roon in Le souffle de la guerre (1983) (and its sequel) and General Horatio Gates in the miniseries George Washington (1984). He was also a memorably crusty Robert Picard, Patrick Stewart's conservative older brother in Star Trek: La nouvelle génération: Family (1990).Though once described as "a sinister-looking bloke with a smile like a razor", Kemp was a confident, natural performer with a larger-than-life personality. He was not averse to occasionally spoofing his screen personae, which he did to brilliant effect in Le prisonnier de Zenda (1979) (as Prince Michael) and in Top Secret ! (1984) (as the East German General Streck, featuring in some of the film's funniest scenes).Jeremy Kemp retired from acting in 1998 and died after a long illness on July 19 2019 at the age of 84.