Gilbert P. Hamilton

American film director

Gilbert P. Hamilton 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]

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]

Filmography

  • Geronimo's Last Raid (1912)
  • Trapped in a Forest Fire (1913) starring Charlotte Burton[5]
  • Soul Mates (1913)[6]
  • 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)[7]
  • Everywoman's Husband (1918)[6]
  • High Tide (1918)[8]
  • Captain of His Soul[9] (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[10]
  • 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

References

  1. ^ Slide, Anthony (February 25, 2014). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry. Routledge. ISBN 9781135925543 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Warner, Jack L. (April 20, 2017). My First Hundred Years in Hollywood: An Autobiography. Graymalkin Media. ISBN 9781631681127 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Abel, Richard (June 2, 1996). Silent Film. Rutgers University Press. p. 88 – via Internet Archive. gilbert p. hamilton.
  4. ^ Balducci, Anthony (July 6, 2009). Lloyd Hamilton: Poor Boy Comedian of Silent Cinema. McFarland. ISBN 9780786441594 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Gilbert P. Hamilton". BFI. Archived from the original on June 2, 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Hamilton, Gilbert P. [WorldCat Identities]".
  7. ^ Finamore, M. Tolini (January 28, 2013). Hollywood Before Glamour: Fashion in American Silent Film. Springer. ISBN 9780230389496 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Mestayer, Harry (June 2, 1918). "High Tide" – via memory.loc.gov.
  9. ^ "Motography". June 2, 1918 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ "Motography". 3 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019 – via Google Books.
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