Lloyd Hamilton
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Lloyd Hamilton.
Born: August 19, 1891
Place of Birth: Oakland, California, USA
Known For
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Move Along
Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best, gag-filled 20s comedy style.
Moonshine
A Lloyd Hamilton slapstick comedy directed by Charley Chase.
Too Many Highballs
Harold Hobbs doesn't much like that his lazy, sponging and unemployed brother-in-law Claude and his mother-in-law live with him and his wife, Hortense, especially as the in-laws seem to rule the roost ever since they moved in. To get his in-laws out of the house, Harold has regularly left a bottle of booze for Claude to be able to entertain prospective employers. When Harold learns that on all the other occasions the employers have not showed (he assumes there probably were no prospective employers) leaving Claude to consume the booze on his own, he decides to show Claude a lesson by spiking the bottle with castor oil. Complications ensue when Joe, Harold's friend, encourages him to skip work to attend the prize fight. What Joe doesn't tell Harold is that he tells his boss that Harold needs the day off to attend to the sudden death of his brother-in-law.
Dynamite
Trouble is stirred up at a munitions factory by a Walking Delegate.
A Home Made Man
Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.
The Movies
Silent comedy about a poor country bumpkin who goes to Hollywood to make good.
The Simp
A simpleton finds love but can't get past a pesky dog and some no-good kids.
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.
The Show of Shows
Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
Filmography
as Self (uncredited)
as Harold Hobbs
as The Tenderfoot
as Hansom Cabby in "What Became of the Floradora Boys" number" / (segment "Recitations") / Soldier (segment "Rifle Execution")
as Detective (uncredited)
as Lloyd
as Temple
as Ham
as Himself
as S. Sylvester Sebastian
as Man starting car
as Walter Rawleigh
as Bill Collector
as A Country Boy
as Lloyd
as Mr. Jones
as The Hired Man
as Claude Sappington
as Lloyd Hamilton
as Ham
as Lead Character
as Ham
as Ben Zeen
as Bob Hale
as Woodrow Butts
as Ham
as Ham
as Ham - the Chauffeur