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George Hamilton Biography

(1939–)

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1979 Love at First Bite
1977 Killer on Board (TV Movie)
1995 Vanished (TV Movie)

1997 Jenny (TV Series)
1964 Your Cheatin' Heart
1960 Home from the Hill
1973 Medusa
1979 Institute for Revenge (TV Movie)
1975 Columbo: A Deadly State of Mind (TV Movie)
1979 Supertrain (TV Series)
1985 Dynasty (TV Series)
1995 Playback
1963 The Victors
1967 Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding
1991 Doc Hollywood
1967 A Time for Killing
1999 P.T. Barnum (TV Miniseries)
1962 Two Weeks in Another Town
1997 Meet Wally Sparks
1961 A Thunder of Drums
1974 The Dead Don't Die (TV Movie)
1977 Roots (TV Miniseries)
1971 Evel Knievel
1975 Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
1983 Malibu (TV Movie)
1961 Angel Baby
1967 Jack of Diamonds
1977 The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver (TV Movie)
1961 By Love Possessed
1998 She's Too Tall
1978 Sextette
1978 The User (TV Movie)
1995 The Guilt (TV Series)
1959 Crime & Punishment, U.S.A
2001 Off Key
1962 Light in the Piazza
1969 The Survivors (TV Series)
1986 Monte Carlo (TV Movie)
1960 All the Fine Young Cannibals
1968 The Power
1995 The George & Alana Show (TV Series)
1970 Paris 7000 (TV Series)
1985 Two Fathers' Justice (TV Movie)
1977 The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
1990 The Godfather, Part III
1979 Death Car on the Freeway (TV Movie)
1981 Zorro, the Gay Blade
1979 The Seekers (TV Movie)
1997 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
1977 Circus of the Stars (TV Special)
1991 Columbo: Caution! Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (TV Movie)
1963 Act One
1992 Once Upon a Crime...
1960 Where the Boys Are
1979 Express to Terror
1965 Viva María!
1987 Spies (TV Series)

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Actor. Born August 12, 1939, in Memphis, Tennessee. Hamilton was the first child born to Ann and George Hamilton Sr., who was a touring society bandleader. In order to accommodate George Sr., the family moved frequently, residing in Arkansas, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, and Palm Beach. Hamilton attended Palm Beach High School, where he developed an affinity for drama.

After his graduation from high school, he landed his first lead role in 1959’s Crime and Punishment. Although his performance was considered wooden, his chiseled features and movie star good looks won the attention of studio executives. Hamilton was offered a steady stream of roles, and in the 1960s, he prospered as an actor opposite Hollywood's most sought after actresses. During this period, he starred in over a dozen films including 1961's By Love Possessed (with Lana Turner) and 1962's Light in the Piazza (with Olivia de Havilland).

However, in 1966, personal obstacles put a damper on his professional career. Hamilton's courtship of Lynda Bird Johnson (President Johnson's daughter) was widely publicized, and eventually erupted into a tabloid scandal. As the scandal progressed, fewer and fewer roles came his way. Hamilton gave in to the pressures of the industry and reluctantly accepted his first television role as the trendy Duncan Carlyle in the series The Survivors (1969).

In 1979, Hamilton made a comeback to the big screen with his appearance as Count Dracula in the horror spoof Love at First Bite. In 1981's Zorro, the Gay Blade he played the title role. For one season in 1985, Hamilton enjoyed a brief stint on the prime time series Dynasty, where he played a ruthless movie producer. Five years later, director Francis Ford Coppola cast Hamilton as Al Pacino’s high-profile lawyer in The Godfather, Part III (1990).

In the early ‘90s, the struggling actor maintained his affluent lifestyle by launching a line of skin products that were sold via the QVC network. In 1995, he partnered with his former wife Alana to introduce their own short-lived talk show, The George and Alana Show. Hamilton has also enjoyed frequent appearances on the morning show Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee, where he served as temporary co-host during Philbin’s absence.

Most recently he appeared as a financier in A&E's four-hour miniseries P.T. Barnum (1999). Based on the life of the founder of the famed circus, the series premiered in October of 1999 and featured Beau Bridges in the title role.

Throughout his career (which includes over 80 movie and television shows), Hamilton came to be known as the perpetually tanned leading man of the big and small screen. In Hamilton’s most recent project, he collaborated with Merv Griffin to produce an autobiographical film that focuses on his childhood. He is also set to release the film Off Key (2001), which pairs Hamilton with Danny Aiello and Joe Mantegna as a trio of opera singers who are reunited by a wedding 10 years after their own stormy breakup.

In the mid-1970s Hamilton divorced his first wife Alana (she later married musician Rod Stewart). Hamilton has one son by his first marriage, Ashley, who is best known for his marriages to model Angie Everhart and actress Shannen Doherty.