Date of birth: 1887-01-16
Place of birth: Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: John Rummel Hamilton, John R. Hamilton

John Rummel Hamilton was an American actor, who played in many movies and television programs. He is probably best remembered for his role as the blustery newspaper editor Perry White for the 1950s television program “Adventures of Superman.”

1941-10-18
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li
1948-10-21
Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life,

1941-11-28
A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.

1946-06-08
The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery,

1944-08-01
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post

1946-04-05
Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight

1949-10-15
Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George is arrested for murder. Out to cl

1938-10-05
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective W

1941-09-26
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last mo
1931-10-01
The wealthy Mr. Clyde is found dead, shot to death in his home. Inspector Carr suspects a conspiracy
1932-06-01
Mystery short with Dr. Crabtree and Inspector Carr.
1932-07-08
This entry in the Vitaphone Inspector Carr series, based on the character created by S.S. Van Dyne,

1950-05-05
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

1945-04-20
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an

1946-02-16
This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows t

1947-05-09
Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is a

1939-10-28
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally

1947-10-16
BBlondie opens a bakery in her home to help fill the family cookie jar. Her tasty cookies become so

1951-05-30
A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery.

1939-08-01
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

1944-08-13
A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an

1949-01-31
A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out

1942-09-04
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-mart

1942-06-13
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth co

1942-07-25
Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble.

1941-03-14
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who

1947-12-17
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having co

1938-04-07
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-bl

1942-03-14
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his

1941-10-31
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who

1954-10-06
Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with vi

1939-09-08
A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to th

1945-09-05
A U.S. pilot undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist's (Marc Crame

1944-08-05
A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears onc

1953-01-01
The history of the Studebaker family, their success at making wagons and the company's venture into

1938-04-02
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfr

1936-08-15
Mickey, is a prizefighter whose bright career hits the skids when he comes under the guidance of Gin

1942-10-02
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several

1957-08-30
In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.

1952-04-20
A female marshal and a newspaper editor help heroic Tim Holt fight an evil land agent. Western.

1938-05-27
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club

1940-10-26
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.

1944-01-07
During WWII, an executive and his secretary arrive in Washington, DC on business but, because of the

1941-12-05
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.

1937-08-29
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.

1950-12-24
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
1937-12-17
A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. T

1937-08-27
A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the

1953-07-15
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

1938-05-06
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazin

1938-09-01
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony K

1936-12-23
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer t

1941-09-20
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

1932-02-17
When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and D

1944-12-22
A teenage fan sets out to boost her favorite radio singer's career. Comedy with songs.

1938-10-29
Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland

1952-08-24
The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose

1939-07-07
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.

1941-04-19
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identit

1939-03-10
Tom Allen, an orphan accustomed to waiting in bread lines is awarded a scholarship to the Culver Mil

1953-01-28
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of he

1951-02-11
The lawless west had never met a gun-throwing gent like...
1954-05-05
When teen-ager June Kinney is arrested, Warner Anderson, the pastor of a local church she once atten

1936-09-25
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions an

1936-10-03
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that indivi
1932-08-31
A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they're d

1931-11-04
When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Insp

1947-05-24
Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.

1948-07-16
A psychiatrist tries to help a patient who loses consciousness after he kills someone. When the doct

1949-05-19
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the

1939-08-26
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending
1939-12-23
Four key incidents in the public life of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United

1943-03-20
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
1952-02-03
At the dedication of a new road sign, Dan McGurk tells the story of his forebears and how they helpe

1939-03-04
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercove

1944-02-17
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-b

1947-10-09
A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.

1939-06-30
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

1939-10-21
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in

1938-10-22
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

1934-03-02
World War I drama about a soldier and the wild horse he befriends.

1939-01-07
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

1930-10-10
Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her,

1939-03-24
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until

1939-05-11
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

1939-05-05
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets de

1939-08-18
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step f

1944-02-18
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for contr

1942-05-09
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

1944-07-31
A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.

1939-12-29
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls

1939-09-16
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a

1939-09-30
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo

1936-12-20
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from m

1940-11-30
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "

1937-12-11
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

1953-09-30
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank

1947-12-15
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.

1944-12-08
Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted ho

1937-09-21
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York

1937-11-11
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But F

1940-02-23
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syph

1940-01-13
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a f

1950-04-27
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang is a 1950 American comedy-drama film directed by D. Ros

1941-09-26
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota sys

1958-01-10
In this drama, set just after the end of WWII, an American officer falls in love with a German woman

1954-01-01
Superman's commitment to promote US Savings Stamps is temporarily delayed when Lois is kidnapped.

1936-11-01
Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and 'Slim" Hewitt, set out to track down the s

1947-02-15
A teenager is involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case wh

1937-02-15
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an

1949-11-24
Monte Hale is cast as Ted Post, a Texas marshal who's on the trail of embezzler Larry Forester (Myro

1939-04-23
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-f

1952-05-06
The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a charge of chicken stealing. They esca

1940-04-19
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then tur

1939-05-06
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

1942-01-15
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a s

1936-12-27
A businessman during the Great Depression discovers that his partners are crooked con-men, and he tr

1945-11-30
Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an ille

1946-01-26
A new town doctor arrives at the same time as local Indians needprotection from troublemaking looter

1945-10-30
A dying millionaire marries his nurse for companionship, only to experience a miracle cure.

1942-05-22
A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

1947-04-25
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by t

1937-05-28
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well

1940-08-30
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov

1943-11-05
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

1940-12-27
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pe

1940-07-26
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck b

1940-11-30
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.

1940-10-19
The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.

1946-11-07
A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.

1940-08-16
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

1947-08-13
Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip w

1940-03-03
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship

1952-03-01
Chills and spills in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing.

1930-06-22
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in t

1931-06-30
Elmer proposes to Molly, but she says he needs her fathers permission. He wants Elmer to become a ba

1948-05-24
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowin

1943-06-29
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home

1950-12-24
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.

1949-07-15
Wyoming Dan (Trevor Bardette) returns home after 20 years evading the law for a crime he didn't comm

1951-04-02
A marshal searches for stagecoach robbers.

1950-01-06
It's 1848 and a wagon train with an Army escort is heading west through Indian territory, It's scout

1950-11-25
In the little town of Dorado, widely known as a town with no crime and no bank to rob, young Polish-

1944-12-31
In this western, brave Red Ryder and his sidekick save a murdered judge's son from going to jail by

1953-02-01
Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the

1943-05-01
A gang of land-grabbers tries to prevent safe passage of the Foster Stage Company through frontier t

1947-12-15
As prisoner Ed Archer is being transferred, the stage is attacked and crashes. Archer escapes the at

1944-11-16
Pretty Girl Barbara Mededith takes over her murdered brother's crusading newspaper. She also assumes

1938-09-08
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juven

1946-04-18
Two brothers settle a wilderness, one builds the largest cattle ranch in the state while the other c

1947-01-18
Johnny Brownell, former Confederate officer turned Federal agent, is sent to Texas during the recons

1949-08-31
This 12-part serial concerns the efforts of the infamous James brothers (of which Jesse was a promin

1948-09-15
Rocky and the Land agent riders need to get an important message to the Army post. The message is st

1931-06-15
As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is

1949-08-29
The Jewel Land Company of Elko, Texas is selling Government land to settlers. Before any of the sett

1949-05-23
Young Buffalo Bill Cody goes after the murderer of his father and uncovers a land-grab conspiracy.

1949-01-22
It has been almost five years since the outlaws have stolen the army payroll from Lt. Raymond D'Arcy

1953-06-01
Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.

1953-04-01
During the Civil War, a Southerner joins the Union Army and is accused of leaking information to the

1941-11-20
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death

1954-05-03
Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city council

1932-03-01
When a skeleton is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tena

1931-12-01
During a rainstorm at a remote manor house, Richard Crayell plays host to several guests. At nine o'

1941-12-31
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. U

1942-04-04
A reporter runs from charges by a corrupt politician only to face them years later.

1940-05-04
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

1953-01-28
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of he

1950-05-17
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's

1937-06-28
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the c

1940-06-01
Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo

1937-03-25
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the

1937-06-03
A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the

1950-05-10
Man-woman team of investigators uncover a gang whose mad scientist leader has developed an invisibil

1946-11-02
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actuall

1939-08-19
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American

1947-04-17
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house wit

1948-09-02
A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that t

1939-11-18
The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a mil

1943-09-01
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself p

1943-10-08
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie.

1943-09-10
A former bootlegger is now the prosperous owner of a popular nightclub. A hustling promoter manages

1943-04-29
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th

1937-01-02
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobil

1941-02-08
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend h

1950-09-01
Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony Wells,

1948-01-31
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.

1949-11-05
Bookkeeper Sam Wilson learns from his boss, Malcolm Jarvis, that he is losing his job because the co

1946-05-04
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a

1941-07-26
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk

1945-06-20
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act

1937-07-02
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to

1945-07-13
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

1945-01-03
A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him

1945-01-13
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achiev
1932-04-01
Dr. Crabtree (Donald Meek) and Insp. Carr (John Hamilton) are visited by a man who has been receivin

1946-12-08
While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending B

1944-10-31
A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.

1940-12-09
Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the cl

1939-12-30
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

1932-05-01
Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on th

1942-05-08
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the l

1937-04-30
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez i

1945-10-12
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turn

1953-05-08
Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveri

1944-08-15
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.

1946-10-01
A facially disfigured and mentally unhinged man wreaks his revenge on those he blames for his condit

1955-10-23
This suspense film revolves around the crime of child abduction. The parents of the missing child un

1954-05-14
The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.

1946-08-23
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day o

1932-01-13
A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is foun

1950-08-25
Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a ve

1951-08-23
A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
1953-11-04
Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has

1948-09-09
Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator.

1934-05-04
President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in ord

1938-05-27
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club

1954-08-11
Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episodes #34 ("A Ghost for Scot

1954-11-01
Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episodes #39 ("Machine That Cou

1954-11-01
Compilation of 3 episodes of the "Adventures of Superman" TV show: episodes #30 ("Jet Ace"), #35 ("T

1954-11-01
Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episode #33 ("Superman in Exile

1954-11-01
Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episode #47 ("The Golden Vultur
1941-12-08
Produced by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1940 and released in 1941 , Unfinished Rainbo

1945-10-25
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
1932-07-01

1944-12-18
Part of the series of Universal B-musicals teaming Martha O'Driscoll and Noah Beery Jr., this film i

1944-10-06
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to th

1938-09-16
While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pi