Bernie Hamilton
Acting

Bernie Hamilton

Born 12 June 1928 · East Los Angeles, California, USA · Died 30 December 2008

Solid character actor that for various reasons never became a star. He is perhaps best known for his role as the tough police captain in the hit 1970s television series, "Starsky and Hutch." Other notable credits include Luis Buñuel's English-language film, "The Young One" (1960) where he plays a jazz musician who flees a lynch mob, and "One Potato, Two Potato" (1964), where he got a chance to show a softer side as a man fighting to obtain parental rights of his stepdaughter.

Known for

The Twilight Zone
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Swimmer
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Starsky & Hutch
All in the Family
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Galactica 1980
Carmen Jones
Sanford and Son
Underworld U.S.A.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Full Moon High
Bucktown
Scream Blacula Scream
Hammer
The Organization
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
The Losers
Walk the Walk
A Clear and Present Danger
The Lost Man
The Swimmer
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
Stranger on the Run
Sullivan's Empire
Synanon
One Potato, Two Potato
Captain Sindbad
13 West Street
Underworld U.S.A.
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
The Young One
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Up Periscope
Take a Giant Step
Cry Tough
The Girl He Left Behind
Congo Crossing
Jungle Man-Eaters
Carmen Jones
The Harlem Globetrotters
Mysterious Island
The Jackie Robinson Story
Bernie Hamilton · Midrow