- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJames Neil Hamilton
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Neil Hamilton's show business career began when he secured a job as a shirt model in magazine ads. He became interested in acting and joined several stock companies. He got his first film role in 1918, but received his big break from D.W. Griffith in The White Rose (1923).
After performing in several more Griffith films, Hamilton was signed by Paramount in the late 1920s and soon became one of that studio's most popular leading men. His rugged good looks and sophisticated demeanor kept him steadily employed, and he worked for just about every studio in Hollywood, from glittering MGM to rock-bottom PRC. Hamilton worked steadily over the years, and grew gracefully into mature supporting parts. He is probably best known to modern-day audiences, however, as Police Commissioner Gordon in the TV series Batman (1966).
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- SpouseElsa Cozetta Whitmer(November 27, 1922 - September 24, 1984) (his death, 1 child)
- ParentsAlexander B. HamiltonElizabeth J. Hamilton
- Nervous, clipped manner of speaking
- Neil Hamilton (Commissioner Gordon), Adam West (Batman / Bruce Wayne), Burt Ward (Robin / Dick Grayson), Alan Napier (Alfred), and Stafford Repp (Chief O'Hara) were the only actors and characters to appear in all 120 episodes of the TV series Batman (1966). Only one non-actor also did this: its executive producer, William Dozier (the Narrator).
- He made 268 films, both sound and silent, and played opposite such stars as Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Constance Bennett, Ann Sothern and Jean Arthur.
- Strikingly handsome in his youth, Hamilton - along with John Barrymore, Fredric March and Brian Donlevy - modeled as the Arrow (Shirt) Collar Man on the back cover of "The Saturday Evening Post", and received more fan mail in the 1920s than the box office king, Rudolph Valentino himself.
- Raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic household.
- He appeared on the Thanksgiving Day cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" in 1918, marching beside (and hungrily eyeing) a turkey.
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