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Hale Hamilton was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In his early acting career, Hamilton appeared in such films as "The Manicure Girl" (1925), "Tin Gods" (1926) and "Paid" (1930). He also appeared in "Good Intentions" (1930), "Common Clay" (1930) with Constance Bennett and "Dance, Fools, Dance" (1931). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the thirties, app...

Filmography

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Edison, the Man (1940)

The Hardys Ride High (1939)

The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)

I Live My Life (1935)

Let 'Em Have It (1935)

Ex-Senator Reilly

Hold 'Em Yale (1935)

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Employees' Entrance (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Smash Or Be Smashed

Nitwits, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You Opened My Eyes

Biography

Hale Hamilton was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. In his early acting career, Hamilton appeared in such films as "The Manicure Girl" (1925), "Tin Gods" (1926) and "Paid" (1930). He also appeared in "Good Intentions" (1930), "Common Clay" (1930) with Constance Bennett and "Dance, Fools, Dance" (1931). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the thirties, appearing in the dramedy "Love Affair" (1932) with Dorothy Mackaill, the Joel McCrea horror feature "The Most Dangerous Game" (1932) and the crime flick "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" (1932) with Paul Muni. He also appeared in "Those We Love" (1932). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in "Curtain at Eight" (1934) with Dorothy Mackaill, "Dr. Monica" (1934) and "Big Hearted Herbert" (1934). He also appeared in the war "The Marines Are Coming" (1934) with William Haines and the Jean Harlow comedy "The Girl From Missouri" (1934). Hamilton last acted in the adventure "The Adventures of Marco Polo" (1938) with Gary Cooper. Hamilton passed away in May 1942 at the age of 59.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Edison, the Man (1940)

The Hardys Ride High (1939)

The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)

I Live My Life (1935)

Let 'Em Have It (1935)

Ex-Senator Reilly

Hold 'Em Yale (1935)

The Woman in Red (1935)

After Office Hours (1935)

Grand Old Girl (1935)

[Joseph] Killaine

The Nitwits (1935)

Calm Yourself (1935)

Dante's Inferno (1935)

Three Kids and a Queen (1935)

Big Hearted Herbert (1934)

Dr. Monica (1934)

The Girl from Missouri (1934)

The Marines Are Coming (1934)

The Quitter (1934)

Major Stephen Winthrop

When Strangers Meet (1934)

Captain Manning

Twin Husbands (1934)

Colonel Gordon Lewis

City Park (1934)

Herbert Ransome

Private Scandal (1934)

One Man's Journey (1933)

Dr. Tillinghast

Sitting Pretty (1933)

Curtain at Eight (1933)

Black Beauty (1933)

Employee's Entrance (1933)

Strange People (1933)

Reform Girl (1933)

Parole Girl (1933)

The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

Life Begins (1932)

Two Against the World (1932)

Gordon Mitchell

A Successful Calamity (1932)

Love Affair (1932)

Mr. Bruce Hardy

A Fool's Advice (1932)

Manhattan Tower (1932)

Those We Love (1932)

Call Her Savage (1932)

Three on a Match (1932)

Defense attorney

Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)

A Tailor Made Man (1931)

The Great Lover (1931)

The Cuban Love Song (1931)

Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)

Lyman [Patterson]

Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)

[Mark] Mellenger

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1931)

Strangers May Kiss (1931)

Andrew [Corbin]

Drums of Jeopardy (1931)

Murder at Midnight (1931)

Phillip Montrose

Beau Ideal (1931)

Good Intentions (1930)

Franklin Graham

Common Clay (1930)

Judge Samuel Filson

District Attorney Demarest

The Telephone Girl (1927)

Girl in the Rain (1927)

The Great Gatsby (1926)

Tin Gods (1926)

Summer Bachelors (1926)

Beverly Greenway

The Greater Glory (1926)

The Manicure Girl (1925)

His Children's Children (1923)

In His Brother's Place (1919)

Nelson Drake/J. Barrington Drake

After His Own Heart (1919)

Thomas Wentworth Duncan

Full of Pep (1919)

The Four-Flusher (1919)

Johnny-on-the-Spot (1919)

Johnny Rutledge

That's Good (1919)

Marcellus Starr

The Winning of Beatrice (1918)

Five Thousand an Hour (1918)

Opportunity (1918)

The Hidden Hand (1917)

Writer (Feature Film)

In His Brother's Place (1919)

Life Events

Videos

Employees' Entrance (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Smash Or Be Smashed After a prologue establishing a roughly 50-year history of department store profits, and mentions of a cut-throat executive named Anderson, we meet Warren William, intimidating his chairman (Hale Hamilton), Ross (Albert Gran) et al, in Warner Bros.’ Employees’ Entrance, 1933.

Nitwits, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You Opened My Eyes George Stevens with a clever opening, directing his third feature and his second Wheeler & Woolsey vehicle, with a song introduced by Joey Ray, Joan Andrews also singing, the tune by Felix Bernard and L. Wolfe Gilbert, Donald Kerr the lackey, Hale Hamilton the music company boss, and the stars, Bert and Robert, running the cigar shop (Betty Grable in the photo!), in The Nitwits, 1935.

Nitwits, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) The Black Widow's Going To Get You! Having by chance written a song about the “Black Widow,” not knowing that music publishing company boss Lake (Hale Hamilton), to whom they’re pitching the song, is being tormented by a blackmailer by that very name, Bert hesitates but Robert manages to perform, in the Wheeler & Woolsey vehicle The Nitwits, 1935.

Great Lover, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) She Needed Plenty Of Soap Opera star Paurel (Adolphe Menjou) returned to New York, encounters his understudy Carlo (Neil Hamilton) then helps the boss Stapleton (Hale Hamilton) trick his moody ex-lover Savarova (Olga Baclanova) into appearing with him in the next production, in The Great Lover, 1931.

Champ, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Keep Your Chin Up Compressed melodrama, Wallace Beery (title character) and Jackie Cooper (his son "Dink") watch "Little Champ" run his first race, as Linda (Irene Rich), with husband Tony (Hale Hamilton) realizes she's just met the son she gave up, then a crash, King Vidor directing MGM's The Champ, 1931.

Champ, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Give The Kid A Chance At first amicable Tony (Carleton Young) and Linda (Irene Rich) see off her long-lost son Dink (Jackie Cooper) after a visit, his father (Wallace Beery, title character, with sidekick Roscoe Ates) paid for his trouble, then later in a Tijuana casino, pressed to compromise, in The Champ, 1931.

Paid (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Care What She Is! Instant disgrace for ex-con Mary (Joan Crawford), meeting Edward (Purnell B. Pratt), father of her new husband Bob (Kent Douglass), and other authority figures (Hale Hamilton, John Mijan) in Paid, 1930.

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