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John Hamilton
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Actor Born: 1886 in Shippensburg, PA Death: October 15, 1958 in Hollywood, CA Biography:Born and educated in Pennsylvania, "John Hamilton" headed to New York in his twenties to launch a 25-year stage career. Ideally cast as businessmen and officials, the silver-haired "Hamilton" worked opposite such luminaries as "George M. Cohan" and "Ann Harding". He toured in the original company of the long-running Frank Bacon vehicle Lightnin', and also figured prominently in the original New York productions of Seventh Heaven and Broadway. He made his film bow in 1930, costarring with "Donald Meek" in a series of 2-reel S.S.Van Dyne whodunits (The Skull Mystery, "The Wall St. Mystery") filmed at Vitaphone's Brooklyn studios. Vitaphone's parent company, Warner Bros., brought "Hamilton" to Hollywood in 1936, where he spent the next twenty years playing bits and supporting roles as police chiefs, judges, senators, generals and other authority figures. "Humphrey Bogart" fans will remember "Hamilton"... Full Biography
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