Big John Hamilton

Big John Hamilton

Born: October 29, 1916
Died: December 5, 1984
in Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Big John Hamilton was an American restaurateur and actor known for various small roles in American films, especially western films. He had roles in several John Wayne films.

Movies for Big John Hamilton...

Tough Enough
Title: Tough Enough
Character: Big John
Released: May 20, 1983
Type: Movie
An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto the national finals. He's torn between his first love, music, and the glitz, glamor and money of the "Tough Man" world.
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The Big Brawl
Title: The Big Brawl
Character: Official #1
Released: August 18, 1980
Type: Movie
A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
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Ride in a Pink Car
Title: Ride in a Pink Car
Character: Big John
Released: June 21, 1974
Type: Movie
A man, thought to be dead, returns to his hometown in Florida. He finds his wife re-married and the town now ruled by corrupt forces.
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The Sugarland Express
Title: The Sugarland Express
Character: Big John
Released: April 5, 1974
Type: Movie
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
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The Undefeated
Title: The Undefeated
Character: Mudlow
Released: October 4, 1969
Type: Movie
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and company are bringing horses to the unpopular Mexican government for $35 a head while Langdon is leading a contingent of displaced southerners, who are looking for a new life in Mexico after losing their property to carpetbaggers. The two men are eventually forced to mend their differences in order to fight off both bandits and revolutionaries, as they try to lead their friends and kin to safety.
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Hellfighters
Title: Hellfighters
Character: Lipman
Released: November 27, 1968
Type: Movie
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
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Bandolero!
Title: Bandolero!
Character: Bank Customer
Released: June 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the brothers to Mexico. They join forces, however, against a group of Mexican bandits.
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McLintock!
Title: McLintock!
Character: Fauntleroy Sage
Released: November 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife—who left him two years previously—suddenly returns. But she isn't interested in George; she wants custody of their daughter.
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The Deadly Companions
Title: The Deadly Companions
Character: Gambler (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Ex-army officer accidentally kills a woman's son, tries to make up for it by escorting the funeral procession through dangerous Indian territory.
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The Alamo
Title: The Alamo
Character: Bowie's Man (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1960
Type: Movie
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Big John
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.