Bernie Hamilton

Acting

Born June 12, 1928, East Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

Filmography

• 1981Full Moon High — Hijacker #2
• Galactica 1980 — Police Chief
• 1975Bucktown — Harley
• Starsky & Hutch — Harold Dobey
• That's My Mama
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Lt. Dobbs
• Police Story
• 1973Scream Blacula Scream — Ragman
• 1972Hammer — Davis
• Sanford and Son
• All in the Family — Walter
• 1971Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones — Shambu
• 1971The Organization — Lt. Jessop
• 1970A Clear and Present Danger — House
• The Bold Ones: The Senator — Dr. Benjamin Edwards
• 1970The Losers — Capt. Jackson
• 1970Walk the Walk — Mike
• 1969The Lost Man — Reggie Page
• 1968Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army — Chaka
• The Name of the Game — Doc Cullen, Jason
• 1968The Swimmer — Chauffeur
• Ironside
• Judd, for the Defense
• 1967Stranger on the Run — Dickory
• 1967Sullivan's Empire — Amando
• Run, Buddy, Run
• Tarzan
• Run for Your Life — J.C.
• 1965Synanon — Pete
• 1964One Potato, Two Potato — Frank Richards
• 1963Captain Sindbad — Quinius
• The Great Adventure — Wilbur Jones
• The Greatest Show on Earth
• 196213 West Street — Negro
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Convict #2
• The Virginian — Ransome Kiley
• 87th Precinct — Officer Kendal
• Ben Casey
• Cain's Hundred — Willie Carter
• 1961The Devil at 4 O'Clock — Charlie
• The Dick Van Dyke Show — Nelson
• 1961Underworld U.S.A. — Investigator
• 1960Let No Man Write My Epitaph — Goodbye George
• 1960The Young One — Traver
• 1959Cry Tough
• 1959Take a Giant Step — Bar Sharpie
• The Twilight Zone — Coley
• 1959Up Periscope — Seaman Weary
• 1956Congo Crossing — Pompala
• 1956The Girl He Left Behind — Corporal West
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Dawson
• Jungle Jim
• 1955Kismet — Pearl Merchant (uncredited)
• 1954Carmen Jones — Reporter
• 1954Jungle Man-Eaters — Zuwaba
• General Electric Theater — Christy
• 1951Bright Victory — Soldier (uncredited)
• 1951Mysterious Island — Neb
• 1951The Harlem Globetrotters — Higgins
• 1950The Jackie Robinson Story — Ernie