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- Burly, stentorian-voiced John Hamilton, worked on Broadway and in touring theatrical companies for many years prior to his 1930 film debut. He was in the original Broadway company of "Seventh Heaven" and would appear in the film remake (Seventh Heaven (1937)) in 1937. For Warner Bros, he starred with Donald Meek in a series of short mysteries based on S.S. Van Dine stories. He was often typecast as prison wardens, judges and police chiefs, but played various types of characters in an almost limitless number of films from the 1930s to the 1950s. He became famous when he was cast as Daily Planet newspaper editor Perry White in the 1950s TV classic, Adventures of Superman (1952). He died of a heart attack in 1957 and is survived by a son. Hamilton is often confused with John F. Hamilton, an American actor whose career began in the 1920s, John Hamilton, a British actor who worked during the same period but exclusively in the UK, and with several other actors of the same name.
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Pencil-mustachioed character actor in Hollywood films of the '30s and '40s, cast perennially as a reeling, incoherent, comic drunk, often clad in evening clothes and satin high hat. In an effort to make his characterizations convincing, he often followed drunks and watched their movements closely in order to copy them. In real life, he was a total abstainer from alcohol.- Sakai Yoneko was famous for playing the part of strong-willed female characters for which her striking facial features made her ideal. Born in 1898 in Tokyo, she moved into acting at an early age, appearing in George Bernard Show's famous play Umadorobo when she was only twelve. She had a harsh experience at the Geijutsu company where she was treated badly by Matsui Sumako, but she rose above this and in 1920 joined Nikkatsu. She costarred in Tanaka Eizo's films Asahi Sasumae and Nagareyuku Onna, and later played mature roles in Tabino Onna Geinin and Aino Mibojin with Umemura Yoko. Sakai became the leading actress in Nikkatsu samurai films such as Omitsu to Seizaburo under director Murata Minoru, and she is particularly remembered for the role Okinu in the film Kutsukake Tokijiro in which she costarred with Okochi Denjiro. She died in 1958 after a long and successful film career.
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Dick Henderson (1891-1958) was a rotund bowler-hatted English comedian and character actor, who began in music hall. He was born in Hull, East Yorkshire. He was reputed to be the first comic to finish his act with a straight song. He spent some time in the United States from the late twenties and made several Vitaphone shorts. He was the father of the comedian Dickie Henderson, who appeared as his son in Things Are Looking Up (1935).