John Hamilton

Biography

John Rummel Hamilton was an American actor, who played in many movies and television programs. He is probably best remembered for his role as the blustery newspaper editor Perry White for the 1950s television program “Adventures of Superman.”

Known For

The Maltese Falcon

18 October, 1941

Rusty Leads the Way

21 October, 1948

I Killed That Man

28 November, 1941

One Exciting Week

8 June, 1946

Wilson

1 August, 1944

Johnny Comes Flying Home

5 April, 1946

Alias the Champ

15 October, 1949

Mr. Wong, Detective

5 October, 1938

It Started with Eve

26 September, 1941

The Clyde Mystery

1 October, 1931

The Side Show Mystery

1 June, 1932

The Crane Poison Case

8 July, 1932

The Reformer and the Redhead

5 May, 1950

Circumstantial Evidence

20 April, 1945

The Madonna's Secret

16 February, 1946

Violence

9 May, 1947

The Roaring Twenties

28 October, 1939

Blondie in the Dough

16 October, 1947

Million Dollar Pursuit

30 May, 1951

I Stole a Million

1 August, 1939

The Port of 40 Thieves

13 August, 1944

The Judge

31 January, 1949

Across the Pacific

4 September, 1942

The Big Shot

13 June, 1942

Escape from Crime

25 July, 1942

Meet John Doe

14 March, 1941

High Wall

17 December, 1947

Mr. Moto's Gamble

7 April, 1938

Always in My Heart

14 March, 1942

The Great Man's Lady

31 October, 1941

Sitting Bull

6 October, 1954

Full Confession

8 September, 1939

First Yank into Tokyo

5 September, 1945

The Girl Who Dared

5 August, 1944

The Studebaker Story

1 January, 1953

Over the Wall

2 April, 1938

Two-Fisted Gentleman

15 August, 1936

Phantom Killer

2 October, 1942

Chicago Confidential

30 August, 1957

Target

20 April, 1952

Hunted Men

27 May, 1938

Tugboat Annie Sails Again

26 October, 1940

Standing Room Only

7 January, 1944

Borrowed Hero

5 December, 1941

The Man Who Cried Wolf

29 August, 1937

The Flying Missile

24 December, 1950

Murder Is News

17 December, 1937

Bad Guy

27 August, 1937

So This Is Love

15 July, 1953

Doctor Rhythm

6 May, 1938

You Can't Take It with You

1 September, 1938

Lady from Nowhere

23 December, 1936

Nine Lives Are Not Enough

20 September, 1941

The Studio Murder Mystery

17 February, 1932

Meet Miss Bobby Socks

22 December, 1944

I Stand Accused

29 October, 1938

The Rose Bowl Story

24 August, 1952

The Forgotten Woman

7 July, 1939

Strange Alibi

19 April, 1941

The Spirit of Culver

10 March, 1939

Never Wave at a WAC

28 January, 1953

Sugarfoot

11 February, 1951

City Story

5 May, 1954

Craig's Wife

25 September, 1936

Two in a Crowd

3 October, 1936

The Trans-Atlantic Mystery

31 August, 1932

The Wall Street Mystery

4 November, 1931

Too Many Winners

24 May, 1947

The Checkered Coat

16 July, 1948

Canadian Pacific

19 May, 1949

Angels Wash Their Faces

26 August, 1939

Old Hickory

23 December, 1939

Aerial Gunner

20 March, 1943

The McGurk Way

3 February, 1952

Secret Service of the Air

4 March, 1939

Up in Arms

17 February, 1944

Key Witness

9 October, 1947

Stronger Than Desire

30 June, 1939

Smashing the Money Ring

21 October, 1939

Girls on Probation

22 October, 1938

Keep 'Em Rolling

2 March, 1934

Devil's Island

7 January, 1939

Heads Up

10 October, 1930

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

24 March, 1939

Blind Alley

11 May, 1939

Rose of Washington Square

5 May, 1939

They Shall Have Music

18 August, 1939

Action in Arabia

18 February, 1944

Dr. Broadway

9 May, 1942

Christmas Holiday

31 July, 1944

Swanee River

29 December, 1939

Dust Be My Destiny

16 September, 1939

Espionage Agent

30 September, 1939

Three Smart Girls

20 December, 1936

You, the People

30 November, 1940

Missing Witnesses

11 December, 1937

Donovan's Brain

30 September, 1953

The Judge Steps Out

15 December, 1947

Crazy Knights

8 December, 1944

Dangerously Yours

21 September, 1937

Night Club Scandal

11 November, 1937

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

23 February, 1940

Brother Rat and a Baby

13 January, 1940

Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang

27 April, 1950

Hold Back the Dawn

26 September, 1941

Outcasts of the City

10 January, 1958

Stamp Day for Superman

1 January, 1954

Legion of Terror

1 November, 1936

The Devil On Wheels

15 February, 1947

Two Wise Maids

15 February, 1937

Pioneer Marshal

24 November, 1949

Forged Passport

23 April, 1939

Listen Judge

6 May, 1952

Johnny Apollo

19 April, 1940

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

6 May, 1939

Over My Dead Body

15 January, 1942

A Man Betrayed

27 December, 1936

Northwest Trail

30 November, 1945

The Phantom Rider

26 January, 1946

Voice of the Whistler

30 October, 1945

Syncopation

22 May, 1942

The Sea of Grass

25 April, 1947

This Is My Affair

28 May, 1937

Boom Town

30 August, 1940

Government Girl

5 November, 1943

Flight Command

27 December, 1940

They Drive by Night

26 July, 1940

Lady with Red Hair

30 November, 1940

The Flag of Humanity

19 October, 1940

The Secret of the Whistler

7 November, 1946

The Golden Fleecing

16 August, 1940

News Hounds

13 August, 1947

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

3 March, 1940

The Pace That Thrills

1 March, 1952

Dangerous Nan McGrew

22 June, 1930

Success

30 June, 1931

The Gallant Legion

24 May, 1948

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

29 June, 1943

The Flying Missile

24 December, 1950

The Wyoming Bandit

15 July, 1949

Badman's Gold

2 April, 1951

Davy Crockett, Indian Scout

6 January, 1950

The Missourians

25 November, 1950

Sheriff of Las Vegas

31 December, 1944

Marshal of Cedar Rock

1 February, 1953

Daredevils of the West

1 May, 1943

Bandits of Dark Canyon

15 December, 1947

Zorro's Black Whip

16 November, 1944

Boys Town

8 September, 1938

Home on the Range

18 April, 1946

Raiders of the South

18 January, 1947

The James Brothers of Missouri

31 August, 1949

Desperadoes of Dodge City

15 September, 1948

The Gigolo Racket

15 June, 1931

Bandit King of Texas

29 August, 1949

Law of the Golden West

23 May, 1949

Sheriff of Wichita

22 January, 1949

Run for the Hills

1 June, 1953

Jack McCall, Desperado

1 April, 1953

They Died with Their Boots On

20 November, 1941

The Miami Story

3 May, 1954

The Skull Murder Mystery

1 March, 1932

The Week End Mystery

1 December, 1931

Pacific Blackout

31 December, 1941

I Was Framed

4 April, 1942

Tear Gas Squad

4 May, 1940

Never Wave at a WAC

28 January, 1953

Annie Get Your Gun

17 May, 1950

It Could Happen to You

28 June, 1937

Murder in the Air

1 June, 1940

Seventh Heaven

25 March, 1937

Fifty Roads to Town

3 June, 1937

The Invisible Monster

10 May, 1950

Wife Wanted

2 November, 1946

The Bill of Rights

19 August, 1939

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

17 April, 1947

Walk a Crooked Mile

2 September, 1948

On Dress Parade

18 November, 1939

So's Your Uncle

1 September, 1943

Crazy House

8 October, 1943

Larceny with Music

10 September, 1943

Mission to Moscow

29 April, 1943

Torture Money

2 January, 1937

Flight from Destiny

8 February, 1941

Bunco Squad

1 September, 1950

Song of My Heart

31 January, 1948

Strange Bargain

5 November, 1949

Badman's Territory

4 May, 1946

Sucker List

26 July, 1941

The Naughty Nineties

20 June, 1945

She Had to Eat

2 July, 1937

On Stage Everybody

13 July, 1945

Mom and Dad

3 January, 1945

The Great Flamarion

13 January, 1945

The Cole Case

1 April, 1932

Magnificent Doll

8 December, 1946

I'm from Arkansas

31 October, 1944

The Great Plane Robbery

9 December, 1940

Invisible Stripes

30 December, 1939

Murder in the Pullman

1 May, 1932

In This Our Life

8 May, 1942

Criminals of the Air

30 April, 1937

Sensation Hunters

12 October, 1945

Iron Mountain Trail

8 May, 1953

Maisie Goes to Reno

15 August, 1944

The Brute Man

1 October, 1946

Bobby Ware Is Missing

23 October, 1955

Moby Dick

14 May, 1954

Step by Step

23 August, 1946

The Symphony Murder Mystery

13 January, 1932

The Men

25 August, 1950

Criminal Lawyer

23 August, 1951

Man of Conflict

4 November, 1953

The Gentleman from Nowhere

9 September, 1948

Stand Up and Cheer!

4 May, 1934

Hunted Men

27 May, 1938

Superman and Scotland Yard

11 August, 1954

Superman and the Jungle Devil

1 November, 1954

Superman Flies Again

1 November, 1954

Superman in Exile

1 November, 1954

Superman's Peril

1 November, 1954

Unfinished Rainbows

8 December, 1941

Johnny Angel

25 October, 1945

The Campus Mystery

1 July, 1932

Hi, Beautiful

18 December, 1944

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

I Led Three Lives

1953

The Count of Monte Cristo

1956

The Gene Autry Show

1950

Adventures of Superman

1952

Cavalcade of America

1952

New York Confidential

1959

Tales of Tomorrow

1951

The Roy Rogers Show

1951

Hey, Jeannie!

1956

The Adventures of Kit Carson

1951

The Cisco Kid

1950

Captain Midnight

1954

The Cisco Kid

1950

Passport to Danger

1954

The Cisco Kid

1950

State Trooper

1956

The Ed Wynn Show

1949

The Gene Autry Show

1950

Screen Director's Playhouse

1955

Cavalcade of America

1952

The Ford Television Theatre

1952

Treasury Men in Action

1950