Trivia

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.

He was a distant cousin of Margaret Hamilton, with whom he appeared in the film By Your Leave (1934).

When he was 6 years old, Hamilton's right arm was badly shattered and there was little hope at the time that the wound would knit. His mother had been crippled years before in a streetcar accident and his eventual full recovery was attributed to great religious faith by the family.

In the film Since You Went Away (1944), he appears only in a photograph. All of his scenes in it were cut before its final release.

He graduated from the Pasadena Playhouse School for Performing Arts in Pasadena, California.

Before becoming a film star, he was used as the model for the Arrow (Shirt) Collar Man by artists Joseph Leyendecker on the back cover of "The Saturday Evening Post". He also modeled for such other noted illustrators as James Montgomery Flagg, Arthur William Brown, Norman Rockwell, Charles Dana Gibson, and more.

Was good friends with Adam West.

On the TV series Batman (1966), Yvonne Craig played Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) and Neil Hamilton played her father, Commissioner Gordon. But this was not the first time that they acted together in a familial role. In the episode of the TV series "Perry Mason" titled "The Case of the Lazy Lover" (1958), Yvonne Craig played Patricia Faxon and Neil Hamilton played her stepfather, Bertrand Allred.

Is the only actor to play Commissioner Gordon from the "Batman" franchise who shared the character's first name, James. Like his live action successor, Martin Patterson Hingle [Pat Hingle], he goes by his middle name.

He was the first actor to portray the character of Nick Carraway on-screen in the film The Great Gatsby (1926).