Hamilton Camp
Biography
Hamilton Camp, a British-born actor and singer, moved to the United States as a child and began acting in films and onstage in 1946, when he was twelve. He launched a folk singing career at the 1960 Newport Folk Festival and recorded with Bob Gibson before writing Pride of Man, a 1964 song recorded by Quicksilver Messenger Service, Gram Parsons, and Gordon Lightfoot. He made his Broadway debut in 1964 in the revue The Committee, guest-starred on many television shows, and balanced music and acting for decades. On screen, he played Bentley in Heaven Can Wait (1978), voiced the robot L in Starcrash (1978), and became Disney's voice of Merlin. His animation credits included Greedy Smurf and Harmony Smurf, Fenton Crackshell on DuckTales, Count Dracula in Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988), and Turk Tarpit in The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987). He died in 2005; Hard Four (2007) was his final film.
70years old at death
- Born London
- Died Hancock Park
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Robin S. Camp (birth name)Also credited as Hamilton Hamid Camp and Hamid Hamilton Camp
Movie Career
- Films
- 28
- Career span
- 57 years1950 to 2007
Genres
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Behind the camera
Hamilton Camp wrote "Pride of Man" in 1964. The song was covered by Quicksilver Messenger Service, Gram Parsons, and Gordon Lightfoot, who put it on his debut album.
Beyond film
Simon and Garfunkel chose "You Can Tell the World," a gospel song Gibson and Camp wrote early on, to open their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Beyond film
Camp put together a group named The True Brethren in 1969, its members being Waqidi Falicoff, Raphael Grinage and Loren Pickford. Later the four wrote incidental music for the Broadway production Paul Sills' Story Theatre.
Hamilton Camp movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf1988 Animation, Comedy, Family, Mysteryas Draculavoice
IMDb rating 6.66.0K votes
Most often with
Ray Patterson directed four of these films, Paul Sommer three and Christopher Guest two. Frank Welker appears in five of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Frank Welker's page
Pat Musick's page
Rob Paulsen's page
Casey Kasem's page
B.J. Ward's page
Daws Butler's page
Ray PattersonDirector, 4 films, 1987 to 1988
All films by Ray Patterson
Paul SommerDirector, 3 films, 1987 to 1988
All films by Paul Sommer
All films by Christopher Guest
Box office
What Hamilton Camp's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$341 million
8 of the 28 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 28 films: 8 worldwide figure; 3 us gross only; 7 never in cinemas; 10 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 3US gross only
- 7Never in cinemas
- 10Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$211M61.9% of the total
- 2$99M29.0% of the total
- 3$8.6M2.5% of the total
- 4$6.1M1.8% of the total
- 5$5.4M1.6% of the total
- 6$4.9M1.4% of the total
- 7$4.0M1.2% of the total
- 8$2.0M0.6% of the total
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Official profiles and reference pages.