Murray Hamilton: movies and TV shows
Murray Hamilton has 137 credits in the archive: 65 films and 72 TV series, from 1944 to 2025. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2025 · busiest year: 1961 (10 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story | Self | Film | 7.5 | 102 |
| 1987 | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 64 |
| 1986 | Blacke's Magic | TV | 6.8 | 63 | |
| 1986 | The Last Days of Patton | Gen. Hobart "Hap" Gay | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 1986 | Whoops Apocalypse | Jack 'Kill the Commies' Preston (Former US President) | Film | 5.7 | 63 |
| 1985 | The Golden Girls | Big Daddy | TV | 7.6 | 62 |
| 1985 | Hail to the Chief | Senator Sam Cotton | TV | 7.0 | 62 |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Bud Michaels | TV | 7.5 | 61 |
| 1984 | Cover Up | TV | 6.9 | 61 | |
| 1984 | Too Scared to Scream | Jack Oberman | Film | 5.2 | 61 |
| 1983 | Mama's Family | TV | 7.5 | 60 | |
| 1983 | Summer Girl | Jack Reardon | Film | 6.3 | 60 |
| 1982 | Matt Houston | TV | 6.3 | 59 | |
| 1982 | Hysterical | The Mayor | Film | 4.5 | 59 |
| 1982 | Mazes and Monsters | Lt. John Martini | Film | 4.3 | 59 |
| 1981 | Bret Maverick | TV | 6.2 | 58 | |
| 1981 | All the Way Home | Joel Lynch | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 1980 | Brubaker | Deach | Film | 7.1 | 57 |
| 1980 | Swan Song | Jack McCauley | Film | 9.0 | 57 |
| 1979 | B. J. and the Bear | Rutherford T. Grant | TV | 5.6 | 56 |
| 1979 | The Amityville Horror | Father Ryan | Film | 6.3 | 56 |
| 1979 | 1941 | Claude Crumn | Film | 5.8 | 56 |
| 1979 | Donovan's Kid | Henry Carpenter | Film | 7.5 | 56 |
| 1979 | A Last Cry for Help | Ralph Muir | Film | 10.0 | 56 |
| 1978 | Jaws 2 | Mayor Larry Vaughn | Film | 6.0 | 55 |
| 1978 | Casey's Shadow | Tom Patterson | Film | 6.4 | 55 |
| 1977 | Damnation Alley | Gen. Landers | Film | 5.1 | 54 |
| 1977 | Killer on Board | Dr. Ned Folger | Film | 5.9 | 54 |
| 1977 | Murder at the World Series | Harvey Murkison | Film | 6.7 | 54 |
| 1976 | Alice | TV | 7.0 | 53 | |
| 1976 | Rich Man, Poor Man | Sid Gossett | TV | 7.9 | 53 |
| 1975 | Jaws | Vaughn | Film | 7.7 | 52 |
| 1975 | Ellery Queen | TV | 7.5 | 52 | |
| 1975 | The Drowning Pool | Kilbourne | Film | 6.3 | 52 |
| 1974 | After the Fall | Mickey | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones | Clete Belford | TV | 7.0 | 50 |
| 1973 | Kojak | Harry Harmon | TV | 7.2 | 50 |
| 1973 | Police Story | TV | 7.0 | 50 | |
| 1973 | Hawkins | Frank Guilfoyle | TV | 7.8 | 50 |
| 1973 | The Way We Were | Brooks Carpenter | Film | 7.0 | 50 |
| 1973 | Needles and Pins | TV | 7.0 | 50 | |
| 1973 | Incident on a Dark Street | Edmund Schilling | Film | 5.3 | 50 |
| 1973 | Murdock's Gang | Harold Talbot | Film | 7.5 | 50 |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco | TV | 7.0 | 49 | |
| 1972 | Deadly Harvest | Sheriff Bill Jessup | Film | 8.0 | 49 |
| 1971 | Cannon | TV | 6.7 | 48 | |
| 1971 | McMillan & Wife | TV | 7.0 | 48 | |
| 1971 | Vanished | Nick McCann | TV | 5.0 | 48 |
| 1971 | The Failing of Raymond | Sgt. Manzak | Film | 6.2 | 48 |
| 1971 | A Tattered Web | Sgt. Joe Marcus | Film | 5.6 | 48 |
| 1971 | The Harness | Roy Kern | Film | 10.0 | 48 |
| 1971 | Cannon | Virgil Holley | Film | 5.0 | 48 |
| 1970 | Night Gallery | TV | 7.8 | 47 | |
| 1970 | McCloud | TV | 7.2 | 47 | |
| 1969 | Medical Center | TV | 6.4 | 46 | |
| 1969 | Medical Center | Robert Jennings | TV | 6.4 | 46 |
| 1969 | If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | Fred Ferguson | Film | 5.9 | 46 |
| 1968 | The Boston Strangler | Det. Frank McAfee | Film | 6.7 | 45 |
| 1968 | The Brotherhood | Jim Egan | Film | 6.1 | 45 |
| 1968 | No Way to Treat a Lady | Inspector Haines | Film | 6.6 | 45 |
| 1968 | Sergeant Ryker | Capt. Appleton | Film | 6.3 | 45 |
| 1968 | Danger Has Two Faces | Colonel Jack Forbes | Film | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1967 | The Invaders | Lewis Dunhill | TV | 6.9 | 44 |
| 1967 | Judd, for the Defense | TV | 7.7 | 44 | |
| 1967 | The Graduate | Mr. Robinson | Film | 7.6 | 44 |
| 1967 | A Bell for Adano | Sgt. Leonard Borth | Film | — | 44 |
| 1966 | Mission: Impossible | TV | 7.6 | 43 | |
| 1966 | Seconds | Charlie Evans | Film | 7.3 | 43 |
| 1966 | The Man Who Never Was | Jack Forbes | TV | — | 43 |
| 1966 | An American Dream | Arthur Kabot | Film | 5.0 | 43 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Mike Kessler | TV | 5.6 | 42 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Emory Hale | TV | 5.6 | 42 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Richard Mills | TV | 5.6 | 42 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Doug McElroy | TV | 5.6 | 42 |
| 1965 | Run for Your Life | Dr. Raphael | TV | 7.1 | 42 |
| 1965 | Inherit the Wind | E.K. Hornbeck | Film | 8.0 | 42 |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Mel Starling | TV | 7.3 | 40 |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Joe Steelman | TV | 7.3 | 40 |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Capt. Appleton | TV | 6.5 | 40 |
| 1963 | The Cardinal | Lafe | Film | 6.6 | 40 |
| 1963 | 13 Frightened Girls | Wally Sanders | Film | 5.9 | 40 |
| 1963 | Papa's Delicate Condition | Mr. Harvey | Film | 5.6 | 40 |
| 1962 | The Eleventh Hour | TV | 6.7 | 39 | |
| 1962 | The Farmer's Daughter | Nordick | Film | 10.0 | 39 |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Dr. Haldore Mattern | TV | 5.7 | 38 |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Lt. Dan Hargrave | TV | 5.7 | 38 |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Miles Morgan | TV | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1961 | The Defenders | D.A. Sid Morgan | TV | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1961 | The Defenders | District Attorney | TV | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Bryan Phelps | TV | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Tark Bennett | TV | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1961 | Target: The Corruptors! | TV | 5.7 | 38 | |
| 1961 | The Hustler | Findley | Film | 7.7 | 38 |
| 1961 | The DuPont Show of the Week | Bob Fay | TV | 7.0 | 38 |
| 1960 | Route 66 | TV | 6.7 | 37 | |
| 1960 | Escape to Sonoita | Marsh | Film | 7.3 | 37 |
| 1960 | Tall Story | Coach Sandy Hardy | Film | 5.7 | 37 |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Mr. Death | TV | 8.5 | 36 |
| 1959 | Men Into Space | TV | 7.4 | 36 | |
| 1959 | Anatomy of a Murder | Alphonse "Al" Paquette | Film | 7.8 | 36 |
| 1959 | Love and Marriage | Steve Baker | TV | 9.0 | 36 |
| 1959 | The FBI Story | Sam Crandall | Film | 6.1 | 36 |
| 1958 | Naked City | D.A. Thomas Stevenson | TV | 5.7 | 35 |
| 1958 | Naked City | Matt Orman | TV | 5.7 | 35 |
| 1958 | Houseboat | Capt. Alan Wilson | Film | 6.4 | 35 |
| 1958 | Darby's Rangers | Sims Delancey | Film | 6.5 | 35 |
| 1958 | Too Much, Too Soon | Charlie Snow | Film | 4.9 | 35 |
| 1958 | No Time for Sergeants | Irving S. Blanchard | Film | 7.3 | 35 |
| 1957 | Perry Mason | John Davis 'Johnny' Hale | TV | 7.7 | 34 |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | TV | 7.3 | 34 | |
| 1957 | The Real McCoys | TV | 5.9 | 34 | |
| 1957 | The Spirit of St. Louis | Bud Gurney | Film | 6.7 | 34 |
| 1957 | Jeanne Eagels | Chick O'Hara | Film | 6.2 | 34 |
| 1956 | Wire Service | Ed Holley | TV | 9.0 | 33 |
| 1956 | Wire Service | Frank Lunt | TV | 9.0 | 33 |
| 1956 | The Girl He Left Behind | Sgt. Clyde | Film | 4.5 | 33 |
| 1956 | Toward the Unknown | Maj. Bromo Lee | Film | 5.9 | 33 |
| 1956 | The Big Slide | Chick Tolliver | Film | — | 33 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Jake Buley | TV | 6.7 | 32 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Webb Cutter | TV | 6.7 | 32 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Calhoun | TV | 6.7 | 32 |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Marsh | TV | 7.8 | 32 |
| 1955 | The Millionaire | Chris Daniels | TV | 5.8 | 32 |
| 1954 | Inner Sanctum | TV | 8.0 | 31 | |
| 1953 | Letter to Loretta | Mike Finn | TV | 6.6 | 30 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | E.K. Hornbeck | TV | 8.8 | 28 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Sgt. Leonard Borth | TV | 8.8 | 28 |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | TV | 7.2 | 28 | |
| 1951 | Bright Victory | Pete Hamilton | Film | 7.1 | 28 |
| 1951 | The Whistle at Eaton Falls | Al Webster | Film | 6.8 | 28 |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | TV | 6.7 | 27 | |
| 1949 | Suspense | Snow Pearson | TV | 5.1 | 26 |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | TV | 6.6 | 25 | |
| 1948 | Studio One | Joe Bristol | TV | 5.4 | 25 |
| 1944 | Song of the Open Road | Crop Corps Kid (uncredited) | Film | 8.0 | 21 |
| 1944 | Reckless Age | Member of Soldier Quartet | Film | 9.0 | 21 |
| 1944 | Something for the Boys | Soldier (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 21 |