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

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, 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

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and attended the Maryland Agricultural College (today the

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) 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 more than 90 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

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from

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and was interred at

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Selected filmography

* '' The Final Judgment'' (1915) * '' Molly Make-Believe'' (1916) * '' The Eternal Question'' (1916) * '' Extravagance'' (1916) * '' The Black Butterfly'' (1916) * ''

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'' (1917) * '' The Undying Flame'' (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) * ''

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'' (1919) * '' Her Kingdom of Dreams'' (1919) * '' Daddy-Long-Legs'' (1919) * '' Playthings of Passion'' (1919) * '' In Old Kentucky'' (1919) * '' The Deadlier Sex'' (1920) * ''

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'' (1920) * '' That Girl Montana'' (1921) * '' The Truant Husband'' (1921) * ''

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'' (1921) * '' Greater Than Love'' (1921) * '' Under the Lash'' (1921) * '' Ladies Must Live'' (1921) * '' The Green Temptation'' (1922) * ''

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'' (1922) * ''

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'' (1922) * ''

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'' (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) * '' Enemies of Youth'' (1925) * ''

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'' (1925) * '' The Wheel'' (1925) * '' The Other Woman's Story'' (1925) * '' Morganson's Finish'' (1926) * '' Life's Crossroads'' (1928) * ''

The Single Standard ''The Single Standard'' is a 1929 American synchronized sound romantic drama film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer directed by veteran John S. Robertson and starring Greta Garbo, Nils Asther and Johnny Mack Brown. The film has no audible dialogue but ...

'' (1929) * '' Rich People'' (1929) * '' Code of Honor'' (1930) * '' Western Limited'' (1932) * ''

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'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1937)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Mahlon 1880 births 1960 deaths University of Maryland, College Park alumni American male film actors American male silent film actors Burials at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery Deaths from cancer in California 20th-century American male actors Male actors from Baltimore