Mark Hamilton
Acting
Biography
Mark Hamilton was born on December 9, 1889 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA as Mark Lafayette Hamilton. He was a character actor known for Barbara Frietchie (1924), Riders of the Purple Sage (1925), The Rainbow Trail (1925), Sparrows (1926), and City Girl (1930). He died on April 12, 1963 in Walla Walla, Washington at the Veteran's Administration Hospital and was buried with military honors in Tacoma, Washington.
Born: December 9, 1889
Place of Birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Known For
Barbara Frietchie
Two lovers in a small town in Maryland are torn apart by the Civil War--she is loyal to the south while he heads north to join the federal army, determined to protect the Union. Eventually his unit arrives in his hometown and he is reunited with his lover, but things aren't the way they used to be.
City Girl
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
Sparrows
Molly, the eldest child of a group of orphans being used as slaves on a farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.
The Haunted House
A bank teller becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.
White Gold
A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father's ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.
Smoke Bellew
A tale of the great Alaska gold rush in which a man falsely accused of murder tracks down the guilty man.
Zenobia
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
The Light of Western Stars
Jack Holt, Billie Dove, and Noah Beery Sr., who starred together in Wanderers of the Wasteland, appear together again. Madeline Hammond, the sister of ranchman Al Hammond, arrives from the East. Gene Stewart, a rough and rowdy cowboy, convinces Madeline to marry him while he is on a drunken spree. Madeline sets out to reform him, and he sets out to rid their little section of the West of a band of outlaws.
Oils Well!
Set in the oil-soaked country of “Chilitina”—shot on location in San Diego’s Balboa Park—Oils Well! follows the travails of Monty, an everyman office clerk, who thinks only of his boss’s daughter. When Herbert Hester, an oilman “so crooked he cheats when counting his pulse,” schemes to cover up the company’s new gusher so he can claim it himself and get the girl, Monty swings into action. He eludes the hapless Chilitinan army, sidesteps the General’s amorous wife, thwarts Herbert, and saves the day.
Chip of the Flying U
A remake of a 1915 Tom Mix/Selig Western, this film was yet another silent oater (loosely) based on a story by popular pulp fiction writer Peter B. Kyne. Chip Bennett, a Flying U ranch hand-turned-cartoonist, despite being a confirmed misogynist falls in love with Della Whitmore, a lady doctor and sister of his employer.
Filmography
as Townsman
as Greasy the Reaper (uncredited)
as Jack Short - aka Shorty
as Conductor
as Slim
as Bandit (uncredited)
as Rancher
as Craddock, The Hog Buyer (uncredited)
as Slim
as Old Man Frisbee
as Fireman (uncredited)
as Monty Price
as Comedy Relief (uncredited)
as Bluey Batcheldor
as Fred Gelwek
as Preacher Cobb (uncredited)
as Soldier (uncredited)
as Boy Scout
as Tallest Ghost (uncredited)