John Hamilton
John Hamilton was born on Jan 16, 1887 in USA. John Hamilton's big-screen debut came with Dangerous Nan McGrew directed by Malcolm St. Clair in 1930, strarring Grant. John Hamilton is known for The Night of the Hunter directed by Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum stars as Harry Powell and Shelley Winters as Willa Harper. The upcoming new movie John Hamilton plays is Outcasts of the City which will be released on Jan 10, 1958.
Burly, stentorian-voiced John Hamilton, worked on Broadway and in touring theatrical companies for many years prior to his 1930 film debut. He was in the original Broadway company of "Seventh Heaven" and would appear in the film remake (L'heure suprême (1937)) in 1937. For Warner Bros, he starred with Donald Meek in a series of short mysteries based on S.S. Van Dine stories. He was often typecast as prison wardens, judges and police chiefs, but played various types of characters in an almost limitless number of films from the 1930s to the 1950s. He became famous when he was cast as Daily Planet newspaper editor Perry White in the 1950s TV classic, Superman (1952). He died of a heart attack in 1957 and is survived by a son. Hamilton is often confused with John F. Hamilton, an American actor whose career began in the 1920s, John Hamilton, a British actor who worked during the same period but exclusively in the UK, and with several other actors of the same name.
Birthday
Jan 16, 1887Place of Birth
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
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