Bernie Hamilton
Actor
Born June 12, 1928 in East Los Angeles, California, USA
Solid character actor that for various reasons never became a star. He is perhaps best known for his role as the tough police captain in the hit 1970s television series, "Starsky and Hutch." Other notable credits include Luis Buñuel's English-language film, "The Young One" (1960) where he plays a jazz musician who flees a lynch mob, and "One Potato, Two Potato" (1964), where he got a chance to show a softer side as a man fighting to obtain parental rights of his stepdaughter.
Filmography
Full Moon High
Hijacker #2
Galactica 1980
Police Chief
Starsky & Hutch
Harold Dobey
Bucktown
Harley
That's My Mama
The Six Million Dollar Man
Lt. Dobbs
Scream Blacula Scream
Ragman
Police Story
Hammer
Davis
Sanford and Son
The Organization
Lt. Jessop
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
Shambu
All in the Family
Walter
The Bold Ones: The Senator
Dr. Benjamin Edwards
Walk the Walk
Mike
The Losers
Capt. Jackson
A Clear and Present Danger
House
The Lost Man
Reggie Page
The Name of the Game
Doc Cullen
The Swimmer
Chauffeur
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
Chaka
Stranger on the Run
Dickory
Judd, for the Defense
Sullivan's Empire
Amando
Ironside
Run, Buddy, Run
Tarzan
Run for Your Life
J.C.
Synanon
Pete
One Potato, Two Potato
Frank Richards
The Great Adventure
Wilbur Jones
Captain Sindbad
Quinius
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Convict #2
The Virginian
Ransome Kiley
13 West Street
Negro
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
Charlie
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Nelson
Ben Casey
87th Precinct
Officer Kendal
Cain's Hundred
Willie Carter
Underworld U.S.A.
Investigator
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Goodbye George
The Young One
Traver
Take a Giant Step
Bar Sharpie
The Twilight Zone
Coley
Cry Tough
Up Periscope
Seaman Weary
The Girl He Left Behind
Corporal West
Congo Crossing
Pompala
Kismet
Pearl Merchant (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Dawson
Jungle Jim
Carmen Jones
Reporter
Jungle Man-Eaters
Zuwaba
General Electric Theater
Christy
Mysterious Island
Neb
Bright Victory
Soldier (uncredited)
The Harlem Globetrotters
Higgins
The Jackie Robinson Story
Ernie