Gilbert P. Hamilton
American film director
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Gilbert P. Hamilton (1890–1962) was an American film company executive and director. He worked at Essanay as a cinematographer, headed the St. Louis Motion Picture Company, and then launched the Albuquerque Film Manufacturing Company.[1]
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| Born | February 9, 1890 Fort Wadsworth, New York, US |
| Died | May 21, 1962 (aged 72) New York, US |
| Occupations | Film company executive, director |
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Jack L. Warner described him as a tall sunburned Englishman with walrus mustache and thick accent "like a Kipling character".[2]
As a cinematographer, Hamilton collaborated with playwright and actor Lawrence Lee at Essanay in 1908.[3] His move away from St. Louis Motion Picture Company came after it acquired Frontier Pictures and relocated to Santa Paula, California. Dot Farley followed him to his new studio Albuquerque.[4]
Biography
Gilbert P. Hamilton was born in Fort Wadsworth, New York on February 8, 1890.[5]
He died in New York on May 21, 1962.[6]
Filmography
- Geronimo's Last Raid (1912)
- Trapped in a Forest Fire (1913) starring Charlotte Burton[7]
- Soul Mates (1913)[8]
- In the Mountains of Virginia (1913)
- Lieutenant Danny of the U.S.A. (1916)
- The Maternal Spark (1917), starring Josie Sedgewick (stage name for female unpersonator Julian Eltinge)[9]
- Everywoman's Husband (1918)[8]
- High Tide (1918)[10]
- Captain of His Soul[11] (1918), a Triangle Film Corporation production based on Eleanor Talbot Kinkead's magazine story "Shackles"
- False Ambition (1918), Triangle Film
- Judith (1918) starring Alma Rubens[12]
- The Golden Fleece (1918)
- Open Your Eyes (1919)
- Coax Me (1919)
- The Woman of Lies (1919)
- The Tiger Band (1920)
- A Soul in Trust starring Belle Bennett
- Iron and Lavender starring Belle Bennett
