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Jeremy Kemp

Jan 03, 1935 - Jul 19, 2019 (84 years old) in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK

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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.

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Known For

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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Robert Picard
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Play for Today
Reader, Kuznetsov's 'Prison Diaries' (voice)
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Murder, She Wrote
Minister Melnikov
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Hart to Hart
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The BBC Television Shakespeare
Duke of Norfolk
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The Greatest American Hero
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Space: 1999
Ernst Linden
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Z-Cars
PC Bob Steele
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Sherlock Holmes
Dr Grimesby Roylott
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Screen Two
Pomeroy

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