George Hamilton

At 85 years old, George Hamilton has this physical status:

George Stevens Hamilton (born August 12, 1939) is an American film and television actor.

His notable films include Home from the Hill (1960), By Love Possessed (1961), Light in the Piazza (1962), Your Cheatin' Heart (1964), Once Is Not Enough (1975), Love at First Bite (1979), Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981), The Godfather Part III (1990), Doc Hollywood (1991), 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997), Hollywood Ending (2002) and The Congressman (2016).

For his debut performance in Crime and Punishment U.S.A.

(1959), Hamilton won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a BAFTA Award.

He has received one additional BAFTA nomination and two additional Golden Globe nominations. Hamilton began his film career in 1958 and although he has a substantial body of work in film and television he is, perhaps, most famous for his debonair style and his perfect and perpetual suntan.

Bo Derek writes in her autobiography "there was an ongoing contest between John [Derek] and George Hamilton as to who was tanner".

Early life

Hamilton was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the middle of three boys with an older maternal half-brother and a younger full brother, and lived in Blytheville, Arkansas. He is the eldest son of Ann Stevens and bandleader George "Spike" Hamilton.

His stepfathers were Carleton Hunt and Jesse Spalding; his stepmother was June Howard, with whom Hamilton said he had repeated sexual relations when he was 12 years old, shortly after she married his father, and again later when he was an adult.

Hamilton attended the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York, graduating in 1957.

Personal life

In 1966, Hamilton had a relationship with Lynda Bird Johnson, the daughter of US President Lyndon B. Johnson. Hamilton was married to actress Alana Stewart from 1972 to 1975. Their son, Ashley Hamilton, was born in 1974.

The divorced Hamiltons reunited in the mid-1990s to co-host a daytime talk show, George & Alana. In I'm A Celebrity he revealed he had dated at least four Miss Worlds. In 2019 Hamilton said he was romantically unattached, though does enjoy dating different ladies.

Hamilton has a well-known social relationship with Imelda Marcos, the widow of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. It was later revealed that he also had business ties to the Marcoses. In 1990 Hamilton was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal fraud and racketeering case against the Marcoses involving looting Philippine government funds; Imelda was acquitted in the case.

He has a younger son born in December 1999 with his former girlfriend, Kimberly Blackford.

According to Burt Reynolds's autobiography, Hamilton has a healthy sense of humor, even when the humor is directed at him: Reynolds once made up a birthday card for Hamilton with a composite photograph of Tony Curtis and Anthony Perkins, titled "To George, love from Mum and Dad". Hamilton found the card hilarious and showed it to everybody.

My One and Only, a 2009 comedy film starring Logan Lerman, was loosely based on a story about George Hamilton's early life on the road with his mother and brother, featuring anecdotes that Hamilton had told to Merv Griffin.

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Career

Hamilton's first appearances were on television. He appeared on programs including The Veil (playing an Indian), The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, The Donna Reed Exhibition, and Cimarron City.

Denis Sanders directed his first film role, Crime and Punishment, U.S. (1959). Despite shooting in 1958, the gun was not released until the following year. However, Vincente Minnelli, who said Hamilton would be suitable for the younger son in Home from the Hill (1960), a Southern melodrama with Robert Mitchum, was included in the film. Hamilton was largely portrayed, and the film was well-received. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has agreed to a long-term deal.

In the melodrama All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), which failed at the box office, MGM cast Hamilton in support of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner.

Hamilton's next film, the beach party comedy Where the Boys Are (1960), was much more popular. This was a hit and it remains to be one of his most well-known films.

Hamilton wanted to produce more detailed work, but he appeared in the lower budgeted Angel Baby (1961), a tale about an evangelist for Allied Artists. It had no commercial or educational impact. Lana Turner was favored by United Artists in a melodrama directed by Love Possessed (1961).

MGM attempted to repair his image by putting him in a Western, A Thunder of Drums (1961) alongside Richard Boone; the film was marginally successful.

Hamilton fought hard for the role of the Italian husband in Light in the Piazza (1962), another melodrama starring Olivia de Havilland. Hamilton lost money, but Hamilton got raves. It was shot in Italy, and MGM kept Hamilton in that region to appear in Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), an unsuccessful attempt to imitate the success of The Bad and Beautiful (1952).

Hamilton appeared in The Victors (1963), Carl Foreman's anti-war film. It was a box office flop, but it was also highly lauded. In Act One (1963), Hamilton was still playing Moss Hart, but the film was not well received. He appeared on episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre and Burke's Law.

Hamilton made a cameo in Looking for Love (1964), starring Hank Williams in another biopic, Your Cheatin' Heart (1964). The film was not widely distributed, but Hamilton's appearance was lauded. He appeared on episodes of The Rogues and Ben Casey as a guest.

In Viva Maria, Hamilton went to Mexico to assist Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot! (1965). It was directed by Louis Malle, who brought Hamilton's success to Another Town in Two Weeks. "He was a personal decision, and I am content with him," Malle said. He's more interested in being in the social columns, which I don't understand – when he could be one of the best of his generation" at the time. The film was popular in Europe, but not so much in the United States.

Hamilton made That Man George (1965), and appeared in a film adaptation of A Farewell to Arms (1966) on television, opposite Vanessa Redgrave.

Sandra Dee, Doctor, returned to MGM to make a romantic comedy with her sister Sandra Dee. You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967), which was moderately popular. He co-starred with Glenn Ford in a Western A Time for Killing (1967), first directed by Roger Corman then Phil Karlson.

In MGM's Jack of Diamonds (1967), Hamilton was a cat burglar. It was manufactured by Sandy Howard, who said Hamilton was "a hot commodity these days" because he was dating Lyndon Johnson's daughter. His bill was estimated at $100,000 per person at this point. He was drafted into the service but was given a 3-A deferral notice because he was the sole financial provider for his mother. (Hamilton's amended deferment was highly controversial at the time, because it was believed that his friendship with the president's daughter gave him preferential treatment.)

In 1968, Hamilton produced a science fiction film for George Pal at MGM's The Power.

Hamilton went on television in 1969, supporting Lana Turner in the all-star ABC series The Survivors (1969-70).

Hamilton went to Paris 7000 (1970), when the show was cancelled in January 1970. In Paris, he played a troublesome gunman for the US State Department, helping American citizens. In March 1970, this series was cancelled.

He appeared in Togetherness (1970) and The Last of the Powerseekers, a 1971 compilation of two episodes of Harold Robbins' The Survivors.

Hamilton decided to shift into manufacturing to have more control over his destiny. In Evel Knievel (1971), he appeared and appeared in the title role. Hamilton had the script rewritten by John Milius, who later called Hamilton "a wonderful guy, who was entirely underrated." He is a great con man, as he is. "I'll be remembered as a third-rate actor when, in fact, I'm a first-rate con man," he said.

He appeared in The Last of the Powerseekers (1973) as a wealthy rancher whose wife was trying to divorce him from him in the western The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), starring Burt Reynolds (1973).

He grew up and appeared in Medusa (1973). He appeared in the television film The Dead Don't Die (1975) and appeared in Once Is Not Enough (1975). Hamilton played a psychiatrist who uses hypnosis to commit a murder on a 1975 episode of Columbo, whose arrogant claims in his own defense showed that he was in fact at the scene of the murder.

The Hamilton guest appeared on episodes of Police Story, McCloud, Roots, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Gibbsville, Supertrain, and Sword of Justice.

He appeared in Mrs. Oliver (1977), The Uncomprehensive Possession (1979), Sextette (1978), The Happy Hooker (1979), and The Freeway (1979).

He appeared in Love at First Bite, a surprise hit on television in 1979, in which he displayed a natural knack for comedy, which was the story of Count Dracula's search for a young Manhattanite model starring Susan Saint James. At a disco, the film featured scenes such as Dracula and his conquest dancing to "I Love the Nightlife." Hamilton, who also appeared as executive producer, saw the film's box-office success, which resulted in a fame boost for the actor.

He appeared on television for The Seekers (1979) and The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway (1979). He then did a Love at First Bite style comedies, 1981's Zorro, which he created.

However, Zorro was not as popular as Love at First Bite and film leads drained quickly. He concentrated on television: Malibu (1983) and Two Fathers' Justice (1985).

Hamilton appeared in the sixth season of ABC Aaron Spelling-produced nighttime television serial Dynasty in the mid-1980s.

He aided Joan Collins in the miniseries Monte Carlo (1986) and was on the lead in a short lived series Spies (1987). Elizabeth Taylor was favored by him in Poker Alice (1987).

In 1990, Hamilton made a change when Francis Ford Coppola played him as the Corleone family's advocate in The Godfather Part III.

In the 1991 episode "Caution: Murder Can Be Dangerous to Your Wellbeing," he played a murderer on the television series Columbo for the second time. He had appeared in "A Deadly State of Mind" in 1975.

Hamilton appeared in Doc Hollywood (1991), Once Upon a Murder (1992) and Amore! Diagnosis: Murder and Dream On (1993) and a guest appeared on Diagnosis: Murder and Dream On. He went to Germany to make Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent (1994), Vanished (1995), and Playback (1996), as well as guest stars on the programs Bonnie, Hart to Hart and The Guilt.

He appeared in Meet Wally Sparks (1997), 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997), and Rough Riders (1997), where he portrayed William Randolph Hearst. Hamilton has often been mentioned that he physically resembled Warren Beatty, as seen on his matinee-idol appearances. In a brief cameo, Beatty's political satire Bulworth (1998) contained a running gag about this, with Hamilton appearing as himself in a brief cameo. Hamilton appeared on Jenny (1997), a short lived TV series.

P.T. He appeared in Casper Meets Wendy (1998). Barnum (1999) and She's Too Tall (1999). On the 1998-99 syndicated version of Match Game he was a semi-regular celebrity celebrity.

Hamilton appeared on Broadway in the role of Billy Flynn in 2001. He appeared in Nov 21, 2001, Feb 17, 2002, Jun 24, 2002, Jul 29, 2002, and then again on Sep 14, 2007.

Hamilton hosted The Family, a reality television series on ABC for one season in 2003. The initiative welcomed ten members from a traditional Italian-American family, each competing for a $1,000,000 reward. Hamilton debuted in the second season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, with professional Edyta Sliwinska, in which they did not advance to the sixth round. Hamilton, who was unable to follow his younger competitors' limber dance moves, charmed the audience and judges with endearingly silly dances that used props including a Zorro mask and the sword from Zorro, The Gay Blade.

Hamilton was rumored that Hamilton would replace Bob Barker on The Price Is Right in 2006. Hamilton auditioned for the role, and TMZ announced in March 2007 that he was a frontrunner to replace Barker. Hamilton, one of the show's top three candidates, along with Mark Steines and Todd Newton, was one of the final three candidates, according to Reuters. Drew Carey was appointed as Barker's replacement shortly after, but Barker's replacement was soon thereafter. Hamilton also hosted The Price Is Right Live!, the show's live stage version. Hamilton co-starred in Coma, a Crackle web series, in August 2008. Hamilton, the executive producer of My One and Only, a 2009 film that is loosely based on his youth and his mother's union.

On August 12, 2009, Hamilton was inducted as a guest on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. In 1999, a Golden Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars, dedicated to him. Hamilton appeared on the I'm a Celebrity show "Get Me Out of Here!" In November 2009, the '90s were the most popular.' Hamilton walked out of the jungle on November 30, 2009, telling the other contestants that he wasn't there to win but to have fun. Hamilton was deemed one of the most likely to win the contest. Hamilton was selected as one of David Hasselhoff's roasters in David Hasselhoff's Comedy Central Roast in 2010. Hamilton starred as "Georges" on the national tour of the Tony-winning revival of La Cage aux Folles beginning in the fall of 2011. As of June 2012, he was still starring in the show.

In 2015, George and his ex-wife Alana Hamilton appeared in Season 4/Episode 10 of Celebrity Wife Swap. Alana and her partner, Neil Murphy, were swapped for Angela "Big Ang" Raiola of Mob Wives fame and her partner, Angela "Big Ang" Raiola of Mob Wives fame. Hamilton appeared on television commercials for KFC in the summer of 2016, as the "Extra Crispy Colonel," a significantly tanned version of the company's mascot, Colonel Sanders, a position that he returned to in the spring of 2018. Hamilton portrayed the Colonel on GE Hospital on July 6, 2018.

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