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:

Commissioner Gordon: Great day in the morning!


Batman: Look at this pair of joking riddles.
Chief O'Hara: [reads] What does a turkey do when he flies upside down?
Robin: He gobbles up!
Chief O'Hara: Of course.
Batman: And, number two...
Commissioner Gordon: [reads] What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree and is very dangerous?
Robin: A sparrow with a machine gun!
Commissioner Gordon: Yes, of course.


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


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Neil Hamilton Facts
Is the only actor to play Commissioner Gordon from the "Batman" franchise who shared the character's first name, James. Like both of his live-action successors (Martin Patterson Hingle [Pat Hingle] and Leonard Gary Oldman [Gary Oldman]), he goes by his middle name.

Distant cousin of Margaret Hamilton.

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

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