George Hamilton

Biography: George Hamilton

Actor George Hamilton got his start in high school dramatics. Movie-star handsome, Hamilton played the lead in his very first film, Crime and Punishment USA (1959). While his acting talent was barely discernible in his earliest effort, Hamilton steadily improved in such MGM films as Home From the Hill (1960), Where the Boys Are (1960), Light in the Piazza (1961). He was at his best in a brace of biopics: in Warner Bros.' Act One (1963) he played aspiring playwright Moss Hart, while in Your Cheatin' Heart (1965), he registered well as self-destructive C&W singer Hank Williams. His much-publicized mid-1960s dating of President Johnson's daughter Lynda Bird was unfairly written off by some as mere opportunism, a calculated ploy to buoy up a flagging career. In fact, it did more harm than good to Hamilton: by 1969, movie roles had dried up, and he was compelled to accept his first TV-series role, playing jet-setter Duncan Carlyle in The Survivors. The following year, he starred as State Department functionary Jack Brennan in the weekly TV espionager Paris 7000. He staged a spectacular comeback as star and executive producer of Love at First Bite (1979), a screamingly funny "Dracula" take-off that won the actor a Golden Globe nomination. Even better was Zorro the Gay Blade (1980), which unfortunately failed to match the excellent box-office performance of First Bite but which still provided a much-needed shot in the arm to Hamilton's career. He went on to play such campish roles as villainous movie producer Joel Abrigor in TV's Dynasty (1985-86 season only) and jaded 007-type Ian Stone in the weekly Spies (1987). Throughout the thick and thin of his acting career, Hamilton remained highly visible on the international social scene, squiring such high-profile lovelies as Elizabeth Taylor and Imelda Marcos. He also remained financially solvent with his line of skin products and tanning salons. In 1995, George Hamilton hopped on the talk-show bandwagon, co-starring with his former wife Alana (who'd remarried rocker Rod Stewart) on a not-bad syndicated daily TV chatfest. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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The Hollywood Mom's Mystery (2004)
Cast: George Hamilton Elizabeth Peña Justine Bateman Andrew McCarthy Martin Kove
Tags: Satire Comedy Mystery
Length: 87min
As the wife of fading Hollywood producer Kit Freers (Andrew McCarthy), children's book illustrator Holly Freers (Justine Bateman) would love to have some of the fame and fortune of her movie star neighbors rub off on her just once in a while. However,...
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Hollywood Ending (2002)
Cast: Woody Allen Debra Messing Mark Rydell Treat Williams Téa Leoni
Tags: Satire Farce Comedy of Errors Showbiz Comedy Comedy
Length: 112min
A down-on-his luck auteur gets one more chance at the big time -- provided his neuroses don't swallow him whole -- in Woody Allen's 33rd feature release, Hollywood Ending. Allen plays Val Waxman, a one-time cinematic genius who's resorted to taking...
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Too Cool For Christmas (2004)
Cast: George Hamilton Donna Mills Sam Irvin Barclay Hope Brooke Nevin
Tags: Teen Movie Gay & Lesbian Films Comedy Holiday Film
Length: 96min
16-year-old Lindsay Dearborn (Brooke Nevin) is "Too Cool for Christmas," and wants no part of the family celebration being planned by her two male homosexual parents (Adam Harrington and Barclay Hope) and her kid sister Alexa (Jodelle Ferland. Nope,...
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Casper Meets Wendy (1998)
Cast: Shelley Duvall Teri Garr George Hamilton Cathy Moriarty Hilary Duff
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family
Length: 94min
Casper the Friendly Ghost and Wendy the Good Witch team up to fight an evil warlock. Shelly Duvall and Teri Garr star. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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Hart to Hart: Till Death Do Us Hart (1996)
Cast: Robert Wagner George Hamilton Stefanie Powers Dwight Schultz Tom Mankiewicz
Tags: Crime Thriller Romantic Mystery Mystery Thriller
Length: 100min
In this feature-length episode of the popular, long-running detective series, Jennifer and Jonathan fly to Germany so she can save a leukemia patient's life with her bone marrow donation, but once there, a case of mistaken identity endangers her life....
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8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)
Cast: Joe Pesci George Hamilton Dyan Cannon David Spade Jane Jenkins
Tags: Comedy of Errors Comedy Black Comedy Crime Comedy
Length: 95min
Cross What's up Doc with Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia and you get this dark screwball comedy of murder and lost luggage. Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's...
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Vanished (1995)
Cast: George Hamilton Robert Hays George Kaczender Lisa Rinna Maurice Godin
Length: min
In this sudsy drama, a small boy's disappearances leads his mother to suspect her ex-husband of kidnapping. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Amore! (1993)
Cast: Elliott Gould James Doohan George Hamilton Katherine Helmond Jack Scalia
Tags: Romance
Length: 93min
Investment banker Jack Scalia would give anything to escape his wealthy but empty existence. He fantasizes about becoming an Italian movie star, like his idol George Hamilton. Shedding himself of his wife and job, Scalia heads to Tinseltown to realize...
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Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent (1994)
Cast: George Hamilton Paul Krasny Robert Conrad Deanna Dunagan
Tags: Action Thriller Thriller
Length: 95min
In this made-for-TV drama, Stackhouse (Robert Conrad) and Bradley (George Hamilton) are two men with seemingly nothing in common; Stackhouse is a blue-collar widower from Chicago, while Bradley is a wealthy high-level business man from Boston. But...
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Playback (1995)
Cast: George Hamilton Tawny Kitaen Harry Dean Stanton Oley Sassone Shannon Whirry
Tags: Erotic Thriller Thriller Adult
Length: 87min
The third and last film in a trilogy of features produced jointly by the Playboy publishing and cable television empire and Paramount Pictures, this erotic thriller was directed by Oley Sassone, whose previous film, The Fantastic Four (1994) was...
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