- Hamilton Camp
Infobox actor
name = Hamilton Camp
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birthdate =October 30 ,1934
location =London ,England
deathdate = death date and age|2005|10|02|1934|10|30
deathplace =Los Angeles, California Hamilton Camp (
October 30 ,1934 –October 2 ,2005 ) was an English-born Americansinger ,songwriter , andactor .Biography
Early life
Camp was born in
London ,England , and was evacuated duringWorld War II to the United States as a child with his mother and sister(s). He became a child actor in films and onstage. He originally performed under the name Bob Camp and later changed his name to Hamilton after being opened inSubud . For a few years, he billed himself as Hamid Hamilton Camp; in this time period, he was leader of a group calledSkymonters that released an album in 1973 on Elektra.Career
Camp's debut as a folk singer was at the
Newport Folk Festival in 1960; and his first recording, with Bob Gibson, was "Gibson & Camp at the Gate of Horn", also from 1960. Over the next four decades he maintained a dual career as a musician/songwriter and as an actor. He appeared in nearly one hundred films andtelevision programs. Camp is probably best known, however, as the author of the song "Pride of Man", which was recorded by a number of artists, notablyQuicksilver Messenger Service , who had a pop hit with it, andGordon Lightfoot , who included it as one of three covers on his first record. In addition, an early Gibson & Camp gospel song, "You Can Tell the World" was the opening track onSimon and Garfunkel 's first album, "Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. "He also performed with the
San Francisco satiricalcomedy troupeThe Committee and appeared in a number of stage productions, including a 2004 production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream " at theHollywood Bowl .His television work includes a supporting role on "
He & She ", a sitcom starringRichard Benjamin andPaula Prentiss , which ran for one season in 1967-1968. He also guest starred on popular television shows such as "M*A*S*H", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show ", "The Twilight Zone", "Starsky and Hutch ", Andy Griffith Show, "Cheers ", ' (as the olderH.G. Wells ), and twice appeared on ' as Leck, aFerengi . He also had the misfortune of being a "regular" on three series that were each cancelled after only one episode: "Turn-On " (1969), "Co-Ed Fever" and "", both in (1979). In the opening season of "WKRP in Cincinnati " (1978), Camp guest starred in episode 5 as Del Murdock, owner of Del's Stereo and Sound. Camp also appeared as a semi-regular on "Too Close for Comfort" (1980) as Arthur Wainright, the adventurous, youth-oriented boss ofTed Knight 's Henry Rush.He was the voice of
Fenton Crackshell , aka GizmoDuck, on the Disney animated series "DuckTales ". He played the role of old Malcolm Corley inLucasArts 'sgraphic adventure "Full Throttle". He also voiced the Prophet of Mercy in the 2004 video game "Halo 2 ". He also voicedCount Dracula in "Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf ", and became Disney Studio's new voice of Merlin, following the death ofKarl Swenson .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 just days before his death.He died suddenly of a heart attack on
October 2 ,2005 at the age of seventy, and is survived by six children and thirteen grandchildren.External links
* [http://www.hamiltoncamp.com Hamilton Camp Official site]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:aq6gtr29klmx~T1 Hamilton Camp on AllMusic Guide]
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