Hamilton Camp


Hamilton Camp was a British-born actor and singer, who relocated to the United States with his family when he was a young child. He is known for his work as a folk singer during the 1960s, and eventually branched out into acting in films and television.

Early life

Camp was born in London and was evacuated during World War II to the United States as a child with his mother and sister. He became a child actor in films and onstage. He originally performed under the names Robin Camp and Bob Camp, later changing his name to Hamilton after joining the Subud spiritual movement. For a few years, he billed himself as Hamid Hamilton Camp; in this period, he was leader of a group called Skymonters that released an album in 1973 on Elektra. The band consisted of himself, Lewis Arquette, Lewis Ross, Jakub Ander and Rusdi Lane.

Career

Hamilton Camp began his acting career in 1946, at 12 years old.
In 1960, Camp made his debut as a folk singer at the Newport Folk Festival. In 1961, Camp's first recording, with Bob Gibson, was Bob Gibson & Bob Camp at the Gate of Horn. Over the next four decades he maintained a dual career as a musician/songwriter and as an actor. Camp is probably best known, however, as the author of the 1964 song "Pride of Man", which was recorded by a number of artists, notably Quicksilver Messenger Service, Gram Parsons, and Gordon Lightfoot, who included it as one of three songs by other songwriters on his first record.
In 1964, Camp made his Broadway debut in the musical revue The Committee.
An early Gibson & Camp gospel song, "You Can Tell the World" was the opening track on Simon & Garfunkel's first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. As a singer, Camp had a minor hit with the song "Here's to You," which peaked at number 76 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968. The track was produced and arranged by Felix Pappalardi, who also produced albums for Cream and played bass with the band Mountain.
In 1969 Camp formed a group called The True Brethren with Waqidi Falicoff, Raphael Grinage and Loren Pickford. The four later composed the incidental music for the Broadway show Paul Sills' Story Theatre, which won two Tony awards and was nominated for best show in the 1971 awards.
He provided voice work as "L" the robot policeman in the 1978 film Starcrash and for the 1976 Peter Bogdanovich film Nickelodeon. He also performed with the Chicago comedy troupe The Second City and the San Francisco satirical comedy troupe the Committee, as well as appearing in a number of stage productions, including a 2004 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Hollywood Bowl.
His television work includes a supporting role on He & She, a sitcom starring Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss, which ran for one season in 1967–68. He guest-starred on television shows such as The Rat Patrol, The Monkees, M*A*S*H, Soap, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Twilight Zone, Starsky and Hutch, Cheers, The Andy Griffith Show, Bewitched, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Three's Company and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, as the older H. G. Wells. He appeared on two episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Leck, a Ferengi and on one episode of Star Trek: Voyager as a Malon freighter pilot.
In 1977, Camp appeared in three episodes of The Feather and Father Gang. In the 1978 opening season of WKRP in Cincinnati, Camp guest-starred in the fifth episode as Del Murdock, owner of Del's Stereo and Sound. He returned to WKRP as Johnny Fever's ex-wife's new fiancé. Also in 1978, he played Warren Beatty's valet, Bentley, in Heaven Can Wait. In 1980, he appeared as a semi-regular on Too Close for Comfort as Arthur Wainwright, the adventurous, youth-oriented boss of Henry Rush, and on the FOX sitcom Titus as Erin Fitzpatrick's alcoholic father, Merritt. He played Bart Furley, brother of Don Knotts' character Ralph Furley, on an episode of Three's Company, "Furley vs. Furley". He also voiced Professor Moriarty in the English dub of the anime series Sherlock Hound.
He was the voice of Fenton Crackshell, aka GizmoDuck, on the Disney animated series DuckTales and its spinoff Darkwing Duck. He played the role of old Malcolm Corley in LucasArts' graphic adventure Full Throttle. He voiced the Prophet of Mercy in the 2004 video game Halo 2.
He became Disney Studio's new voice of Merlin, following the death of Karl Swenson. Camp also voiced for Hanna–Barbera; as Greedy Smurf and Harmony Smurf on The Smurfs series and all of HB's Smurf television specials, Count Dracula in Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf, Turk Tarpit in The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, Mr. Gruber in Paddington Bear, The Grand Dozer on Potsworth & Co., several villains of the week from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and Barney Rubble as a kid in The Flintstone Kids. Camp's final work was on the film Hard Four in early 2005, as well as a musical album produced by James Lee Stanley called Sweet Joy, completed shortly before his death.

Personal life and death

He married Rasjadah Lisa Jovita Cisz in 1961, and they had six children. His wife died in 2002.
Camp died of a heart attack on October 2, 2005, at age 70. He was survived by his six children and thirteen grandchildren.

Filmography

  • Bedlam as Pompey
  • Mrs. Mike as Tommy Howard
  • The Happy Years as Butch Sidney
  • Outrage as Shoeshine Boy
  • Dark City as Bobby – Boy
  • Kim as Thorpe
  • When I Grow Up as Bully
  • The Son of Dr. Jekyll as William Bennett
  • Week-End with Father as Pianist
  • My Cousin Rachel as Philip – Age 15
  • Titanic as Messenger Boy
  • Ride Clear of Diablo as Andrew O'Mara
  • Executive Suite as Roger Ingoldsby
  • The Black Shield of Falworth as Organ Grinder
  • Mardi Gras as Organ Grinder
  • Too Tough to Care as Otto, a psychologist at a cigarette company
  • The Perils of Pauline as Thorpe
  • The Graduate as Second room clerk
  • The Monkees – Philo in S1:E31, "Monkees in the Movies"
  • Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County as Mr. George Fowler
  • Nickelodeon as Blacker
  • Smokey and the Bandit as a state trooper.
  • American Hot Wax as Louie Morgan
  • Rabbit Test as Misha
  • Heaven Can Wait as Bentley
  • Starcrash as Elle
  • M*A*S*H as Corporal “Boots” Miller
  • Soap as Elmore Tibbs
  • Roadie as Grady
  • All Night Long as Buggoms
  • SOB as Mr. Lipschitz
  • Too Close For Comfort as Arthur Wainwright
  • Three's Company as Bart Furley
  • The Smurfs as Greedy Smurf / Harmony Smurf
  • Evilspeak as Hauptman
  • Eating Raoul as John Peck – Dishonest Wine Buyer
  • ‘’M*A*S*H’’ as Frankenheimer
  • Safari 3000 as Feodor
  • Young Doctors in Love as The Others – Oscar Katz
  • The Incredible Hulk as Dr. Brandon Jones
  • Twice Upon a Time as Greensleeves
  • ABC Weekend Specials as Sheriff / Little Green Man #1 / Butcher / Villager / Mushroom Harvester
  • Under Fire as Regis Seydor
  • Meatballs Part II as Col. Bat Jack Hershey
  • The Rosebud Beach Hotel as Matches
  • No Small Affair as Gus Sosnowski
  • City Heat as Garage Attendant
  • It Came Upon the Midnight Clear as Meek Angel
  • The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries as Dracula / Sheldon Keats
  • Sherlock Hound as Professor Moriarty
  • Pink Panther and Sons as Additional Voices
  • The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo as Rankor / Ghoulio
  • CBS Storybreak as Dr. Crabneckel
  • The Flintstone Kids as Barney Rubble / Flab Slab
  • Foofur as Additional Voices
  • DuckTales as Fenton Crackshell / Gizmoduck / Man in Soap Opera / Overlord Bulovan / Director / Cop #2
  • Yogi's Great Escape as Li'l Brother Bear
  • Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers as Ghostly Laugh
  • The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones as Turk Tarpit
  • Rockin' with Judy Jetson as Mr. Microchips / Manny
  • Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School as Phantom Father
  • Bird as Mayor of 52nd Street
  • The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley as Additional Voices
  • The Flintstone Kids' Just Say No Special as Barney Rubble
  • A Pup Named Scooby-Doo as Additional Voices / Mr. Dayton / Samurai Ghost
  • Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf as Dracula
  • Mama's Family as Dr. Bishop / Purvis
  • Bridesmaids as Ridgefield
  • Arena as Shorty
  • The Further Adventures of SuperTed as Sparky
  • Adventures of the Gummi Bears as King Jean-Claude
  • Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery Maxwell Movieola
  • The Little Mermaid as Additional Voices
  • Paddington Bear as Mr. Gruber
  • Saved By The Bell as Mr. Margolies
  • Dick Tracy as Store Clerk
  • Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers as Mountie / Chief Beetlebreath
  • Megaville as Dr. Skutnik
  • Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone as The Grand Dozer
  • TaleSpin as Babyface Half Nelson / Police Officer / Seymore
  • Tiny Toon Adventures as The Scottish Flea
  • Gravedale High as Tucker
  • The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh as Grocery store clerk
  • Darkwing Duck as Gizmoduck / Fenton Crackshell / Jock Newbody
  • Space Cats as Incidental Characters
  • The Pirates of Dark Water as Additional Voices
  • Let's Kill All the Lawyers as Marcus
  • Diner as A-1
  • Bobby's World as Uncle Lou
  • The Wattersons as Hoppity Hooper / Additional Voices
  • Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman as Prospector Eddie
  • Bonkers as Pitts / TV commercial director
  • Mighty Max as Additional Voice
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Jocko / Kevin Tyler / Dwayne
  • The Tick as Professor Chromedome / Benjamin Franklin / Guy with Ears Like Little Raisins
  • Aladdin as Ayam Aghoul
  • The Pebble and the Penguin as Megellenic 2
  • Full Throttle as Malcolm Corley and Father Torque
  • Gordy as Father Pig / Richard the Rooster
  • The Twisted Adventures of Felix the Cat as Voices / Mr. Monster / Mr. Whale
  • All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 as Chihuahua
  • Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as H.G. Wells
  • Life with Louie as Jen Glenn
  • Adventures from the Book of Virtues as Swindler / The Servant
  • Almost Heroes as Pratt
  • Dr. Dolittle as Pig
  • Star Trek: Voyager - episode Extreme Risk
  • Joe Dirt as Meteor Bert
  • The Zeta Project as Dr. Rashad
  • House of Mouse as Merlin
  • Wishcraft as Chief Bates
  • Dexter's Laboratory as Principal
  • The 4th Tenor as Papa
  • Out of Order as Hamster / Plant
  • Brave: The Search for Spirit Dancer as Grey Bear
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy as Country Dirt Grome / Man
  • Hard Four as Bix Karew