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Mahlon Preston Hamilton, Jr. (June 15, 1880 – June 20, 1960), was an American stage and screen actor. He was the son of a bartender born in Baltimore, Maryland, the eldest of four children, with the rest of the siblings being girls. Census records indicate his mother died sometime around 1899.
Hamilton served with the Maryland National Guardand attended the Maryland Agricultural College (today the University of Maryland, College Park)before turning to acting.
From 1908 through 1914, Hamilton appeared in such plays as The Great Question, Israel, When Claudia Smiles, The Chaperon,and Overnight. He began his film career during the silent era, appearing in at least 92 films between 1914 and 1950.
Personal life and death
Hamilton married Aleta Farnum in 1918; the marriage ended in divorce in 1925.
He died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California from cancer and was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
Selected filmography
- The Final Judgment (1915)
- Molly Make-Believe (1916)
- The Eternal Question (1916)
- Extravagance (1916)
- The Black Butterfly (1916)
- Bridges Burned (1917)
- The Law of the Land (1917)
- The Hidden Hand (1917)
- To the Death (1917)
- The Silence Sellers (1917)
- The Soul of a Magdalen (1917)
- The Waiting Soul (1917)
- The Red Woman (1917)
- More Truth Than Poetry (1917)
- The Danger Mark (1918)
- Adele (1919)
- Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919)
- Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
- Playthings of Passion (1919)
- In Old Kentucky (1919)
- The Deadlier Sex (1920)
- Earthbound (1920)
- That Girl Montana (1921)
- I Am Guilty (1921)
- Greater Than Love (1921)
- Under the Lash (1921)
- Ladies Must Live (1921)
- The Green Temptation (1922)
- Peg o' My Heart (1922)
- Paid Back (1922)
- The Heart Raider (1923) (with Agnes Ayres)
- His Children's Children (1923)
- Little Old New York (1923)
- The Recoil (1924)
- Playthings of Desire (1924)
- Idaho (1925)
- The Wheel (1925)
- Morganson's Finish (1926)
- Life's Crossroads (1928)
- The Single Standard (1929)
- Rich People (1929)
- Western Limited (1932)
- Mississippi (1935)
- Madame X (1937)
