1. Hamilton Camp is known for his work as a folk singer during the 1960s, and eventually branched out into acting in films and television.
22 Facts About Hamilton Camp
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Hamilton Camp became a child actor in films and onstage.
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Hamilton Camp originally performed under the names Robin Camp and Bob Camp, later changing his name to Hamilton after joining the Subud spiritual movement.
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Hamilton Camp began his acting career in 1946, at 12 years old.
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In 1960, Hamilton Camp made his debut as a folk singer at the Newport Folk Festival.
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Hamilton Camp is probably best known 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.
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In 1964, Hamilton Camp made his Broadway debut in the musical revue The Committee.
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In 1969 Hamilton Camp formed a group called The True Brethren with Waqidi Falicoff, Raphael Grinage and Loren Pickford.
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Hamilton Camp provided voice work as "L" the robot policeman in the 1978 film Starcrash and for the 1976 Peter Bogdanovich film Nickelodeon.
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Hamilton Camp performed with the Chicago comedy troupe The Second City and the San Francisco satirical comedy troupe the Committee and appeared in a number of stage productions, including a 2004 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Hamilton Camp 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.
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In 1977, Hamilton Camp appeared in three episodes of The Feather and Father Gang.
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Hamilton Camp returned to WKRP as Johnny Fever's ex-wife's new fiance.
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Hamilton Camp played Bart Furley, brother of Don Knotts' character Ralph Furley, on an episode of Three's Company, "Furley vs Furley".
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Hamilton Camp voiced Professor Moriarty in the English dub of the anime series Sherlock Hound.
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Hamilton Camp was the voice of Fenton Crackshell, aka GizmoDuck, on the Disney animated series DuckTales and its spinoff Darkwing Duck.
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Hamilton Camp played the role of old Malcolm Corley in LucasArts' graphic adventure Full Throttle.
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Hamilton Camp voiced the Prophet of Mercy in the 2004 video game Halo 2.
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Hamilton Camp became Disney Studio's new voice of Merlin, following the death of Karl Swenson.
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Hamilton Camp married Rasjadah Lisa Jovita Cisz in 1961, and they had six children.
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Hamilton Camp died of a heart attack on October 2,2005, at age 70.
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Hamilton Camp was survived by his six children and thirteen grandchildren.