Netflix has announced it is cancelling its flagship television series, House of Cards, a day after allegations that its star, Kevin Spacey, sexually harassed a 14-year-old boy.

Anthony Rapp, an actor, accused Spacey of historical sexual harassment when he was 14 and the star was 26.

The Oscar-winning actor was accused of trying to seduce the child by lying down on top of him at a party at his apartment in New York in 1986.

Meanwhile, the International TV Academy has withdrawn a planned award for Spacey in the wake of historical harassment allegations.

Spacey had been due to be awarded with the 2017 International Emmy Founders Award in New York in November, but has now had the honour revoked.

In a statement on its website, The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said: "The International Academy has announced today that in light of recent events it will not honour Kevin Spacey with the 2017 International Emmy Founders Award."

Two more allegations have emerged since Rapp spoke out. America TV anchor Heather Unruh, 50, has suggested a loved one had been assaulted by the star.

'The #weinsteinscandal has emboldened me … I was a Kevin Spacey fan until he assaulted a loved one. Time the dominoes fell," she tweeted on October 13.