Neil Hamilton Overview:

Actor, Neil Hamilton, was born James Neil Hamilton on Sep 9, 1899 in Lynn, MA. Hamilton died at the age of 85 on Sep 24, 1984 in Escondido, CA and was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea.

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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By Silentfilmfanatic on Dec 29, 2012 From Noir and Chick Flicks

A Tribute to Born in Lynn, Massachusetts on September 9, 1899, was a sometime player in stock and a model for Arrow shirts in magazine ads. Neil got his first film role in 1918, but received his big break from D.W. Griffith in The White Rose (1923) with Carol Dempster, o... Read full article


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Neil Hamilton Quotes:

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Beamish: I wouldn't trust meself in that jungle if it was me, sir.
Harry Holt: Well, I will.


Commissioner Gordon: Great day in the morning!


Martin Arlington: Dead men can't give orders.
Harry Holt: Yes they can.


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Neil Hamilton Facts
Strikingly handsome in his youth, Hamilton--along with John Barrymore, Fredric March and Brian Donlevy--modeled as the Arrow (Shirt) Collar Man, and received more fan mail in the 1920s than box-office king Rudolph Valentino.

By the mid-1940s, his personal and professional life were at such a low point that he was seriously considering committing suicide. His plan was to jump from the mountains above Santa Monica, but on his walk he met a priest and told him the whole story. The priest encouraged him to make a novena, instead. At the end of the nine days of prayer, he was offered an acting job from Universal Studios and never looked back.

Appeared on the Thanksgiving Day cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1918, marching beside (and hungrily eyeing) a turkey.

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