Cast
John Hamilton
Acting
Cast
John Hamilton
Known for
Acting
Born
1887-01-16
From
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
1958-10-15
Also known as John Rummel Hamilton, John R. Hamilton
Biography
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.”
★7.7
MOVIE1941
The Maltese Falcon
as District Attorney Bryan
★6.5
MOVIE1936
Three Smart Girls
as Desk Lieutenant at Police Station
★6.8
MOVIE1938
Boys Town
as Prison Warden (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1939
The Roaring Twenties
as Judge
★5.3
MOVIE1934
Stand Up and Cheer!
as Presidential Naval Aide
★7.5
MOVIE1938
You Can't Take It with You
as Kirby's Dining Guest (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1950
The Men
as Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1944
Action in Arabia
as Mr. Hamilton
★7.8
MOVIE1946
Wife Wanted
as Judge
★10.0
MOVIE1949
Pioneer Marshal
as Man with Bracelet
★6.7
MOVIE1941
They Died with Their Boots On
as Colonel (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1943
Government Girl
as Irate Man (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as FBI Chief (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1942
In This Our Life
as Police Inspector Millett
★5.7
MOVIE1939
Devil's Island
as Captain of Second Convict Ship
★5.2
MOVIE1949
Canadian Pacific
as Pere Lacomb
★6.5
MOVIE1953
Iron Mountain Trail
as Circuit Judge
★6.1
MOVIE1947
The Sea of Grass
as Forrest Hamilton (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1958
Outcasts of the City
★6.9
MOVIE1940
They Drive by Night
as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
★5.3
MOVIE1943
Larceny with Music
as Important banker
★5.5
MOVIE1954
Stamp Day for Superman
as Perry White
★7.3
MOVIE1941
Meet John Doe
as Jim (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1942
Across the Pacific
as Court-Martial President
★7.0
MOVIE1939
The Forgotten Woman
as Dr. May
★5.3
MOVIE1951
Sugarfoot
as Judge Backus
★6.0
MOVIE1947
Too Many Winners
as Albert Payson
★6.6
MOVIE1939
On Dress Parade
as A Co. Maneuvers Colonel (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1939
Angels Wash Their Faces
as Officer H.A. Merton (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1945
The Naughty Nineties
as Sheriff of Ironville (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1954
Moby Dick
as 'Jeroboam' Captain
★4.6
MOVIE1947
The Devil On Wheels
as Mr. Davis
★6.1
MOVIE1944
The Girl Who Dared
as Beau Richmond
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Johnny Apollo
as Night Court Judge
★5.2
MOVIE1945
Circumstantial Evidence
as Gov. Hanlon
★6.3
MOVIE1942
Always in My Heart
as Prison Warden
★6.2
MOVIE1939
Invisible Stripes
as Captain Johnson (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1950
Annie Get Your Gun
as Ship Captain (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1946
One Exciting Week
as Dr. Jones (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1940
Lady with Red Hair
as Defense Attorney Graham (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1944
Maisie Goes to Reno
as Judge Carter (Uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1945
First Yank into Tokyo
as Dr. Stacey (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1940
Boom Town
as McMasters' Defense Attorney (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1949
Sheriff of Wichita
as Prison Warden
★5.8
MOVIE1941
Flight from Destiny
as Judge
★5.9
MOVIE1940
Flight Command
as Pensacola Commander (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1936
Two in a Crowd
as Purdy
★6.0
MOVIE1952
The Pace That Thrills
as Sour Puss
★6.3
MOVIE1941
The Great Man's Lady
as Sen. Grant
★7.5
MOVIE1949
Law of the Golden West
as Isaac Cody, Bill's father
★6.5
MOVIE1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
as Hirsch
★5.3
MOVIE1954
Sitting Bull
as Ulysses S. Grant
★5.8
MOVIE1940
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
as Professor Gordon
★6.8
MOVIE1947
The Judge Steps Out
as Diner on Train (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
as Philip Benton
★6.4
MOVIE1947
High Wall
as Police Surgeon (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1944
Up in Arms
as Man In Theatre Lobby (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1943
So's Your Uncle
as Mr. Craig
★6.1
MOVIE1942
The Big Shot
as Judge
★4.3
MOVIE1952
The Rose Bowl Story
as Dr. Lansing
★4.5
MOVIE1930
Dangerous Nan McGrew
as Grant
★8.0
MOVIE1939
I Stole a Million
as Wilson
★5.8
MOVIE1945
Voice of the Whistler
as Doctor (uncredited)
MOVIE1954
Superman's Peril
as Perry White
★6.4
MOVIE1937
Seventh Heaven
as Gendarme
★6.7
MOVIE1941
Hold Back the Dawn
as Mac - Studio Receptionist (uncredited)
MOVIE1953
The Studebaker Story
as Father Studebaker
★10.0
MOVIE1946
Girl on the Spot
as Police Commissioner (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1942
Over My Dead Body
as District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater
★6.0
MOVIE1942
Dr. Broadway
as Inspector (uncredited)
★5.2
MOVIE1950
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
as Col. Pollard
★7.4
MOVIE1951
Criminal Lawyer
as Police Captain Loomis
★6.0
MOVIE1943
Crazy House
as Outraged Director
★6.3
MOVIE1946
Badman's Territory
as Commissioner Taylor (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Swanee River
as Doctor
★7.1
MOVIE1947
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
as Harper (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1944
Christmas Holiday
as Jury Foreman (uncredited)
★4.7
MOVIE1950
The Invisible Monster
as "Henry Miller"
★5.7
MOVIE1943
Mission to Moscow
as Charlie - American Newsman (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1941
It Started with Eve
as Thomas - Headwaiter (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1940
You, the People
as Frank Y. Carter
★7.3
MOVIE1937
This Is My Affair
as Warden
★5.4
MOVIE1941
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
as Police Chief (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Pacific Blackout
as Police Captain
★5.0
MOVIE1953
Never Wave at a WAC
as Sen. Holbrook (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1953
Never Wave at a WAC
as Senator Holbrook
★6.0
MOVIE1944
Music in Manhattan
as Mr. Bradley, the Banker (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1939
Espionage Agent
as Code Room Instructor
★7.6
MOVIE1950
The Reformer and the Redhead
as Police Captain (uncredited)
★8.3
MOVIE1954
Superman in Exile
as Perry White
★5.6
MOVIE1944
Wilson
as Legislator in Wilson's Office (uncredited)
★5.3
MOVIE1950
The Flying Missile
as Senator
★5.3
MOVIE1950
The Flying Missile
as Second Senator
★6.1
MOVIE1939
Secret Service of the Air
as Warden Jackson
★6.5
MOVIE1936
Craig's Wife
as Detective (uncredited)
★4.9
MOVIE1954
The Miami Story
as Clifton Staley
★6.5
MOVIE1939
Dust Be My Destiny
as First Warden (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1946
Magnificent Doll
as Mr. Witherspoon (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1938
Too Hot to Handle
as Mr. Fairfield (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1951
Badman's Gold
as The Marshal
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
as J.C. Allison
★6.5
MOVIE1939
They Shall Have Music
as Detective (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1949
The Judge
as Lt. Edwards
★6.2
MOVIE1948
Walk a Crooked Mile
as G.W. Hunter
★7.3
MOVIE1948
The Gallant Legion
as Speaker of the House
★6.3
MOVIE1937
Torture Money
as Capt. Michael Karnahan (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1955
Bobby Ware Is Missing
as Stearns - Goodwin's Associate (uncredited)
★5.7
MOVIE1938
Over the Wall
as Warden Vance
★5.6
MOVIE1938
Mr. Wong, Detective
as Simon Dayton
★5.8
MOVIE1937
Dangerously Yours
as Roberts
★10.0
MOVIE1946
Home on the Range
as State Official
★6.2
MOVIE1946
Step by Step
as Police Capt. Edmonds
★6.1
MOVIE1945
The Great Flamarion
as Coroner (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1949
The James Brothers of Missouri
as Lon Royer [Ch.1]
★6.2
MOVIE1953
Donovan's Brain
as Mr. McNish (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1949
The Wyoming Bandit
as Marshal
★4.3
MOVIE1953
So This Is Love
as Charlie
★3.0
MOVIE1937
It Could Happen to You
as Judge
★7.2
MOVIE1939
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
as Harry - Conference Room Businessman
★10.0
MOVIE1939
The Spirit of Culver
as Maj. White
★6.0
MOVIE1939
Blind Alley
as Warden
★5.0
MOVIE1957
Chicago Confidential
as Emory Morgan - Attorney (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1938
Girls on Probation
as Police Chief
★10.0
MOVIE1948
Desperadoes of Dodge City
as Land Agent
★5.3
MOVIE1940
Tear Gas Squad
as Chief Ferris
★6.0
MOVIE1945
Johnny Angel
as Harbor Master (uncredited)
★9.8
MOVIE1944
Hi, Beautiful
as Board Member (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1940
Brother Rat and a Baby
as Judge
★5.8
MOVIE1949
Strange Bargain
as Employee at Meeting (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1948
Rusty Leads the Way
as Board Member (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1943
Aerial Gunner
as Doctor (uncredited)
★8.3
MOVIE1948
The Checkered Coat
as Marcus Anson
★6.0
MOVIE1953
Run for the Hills
as Mr. Harvester
★5.7
MOVIE1944
Standing Room Only
as General
★7.3
MOVIE1949
Alias the Champ
as Police Commissioner Bronson
★7.0
MOVIE1940
The Flag of Humanity
as Gen. James Garfield
★5.0
MOVIE1945
Mom and Dad
as Dr. Burnell
★7.0
MOVIE1937
The Man Who Cried Wolf
as Judge
★6.3
MOVIE1934
Keep 'Em Rolling
as Major in France Battlefield
★8.0
MOVIE1937
Bad Guy
as Warden
★8.0
MOVIE1945
On Stage Everybody
as Mr. Smoothasilk (uncredited)
★4.8
MOVIE1947
Key Witness
as R. C. Hurlbert - Coroner (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1938
Doctor Rhythm
as Insp. Bryce
★5.9
MOVIE1944
Zorro's Black Whip
as Mr. Walsh
★6.1
MOVIE1950
Bunco Squad
as John Deming (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1937
Two Wise Maids
as Grover Wentworth
★6.5
MOVIE1946
The Phantom Rider
as Senator Williams
★5.6
MOVIE1937
She Had to Eat
as Police Captain (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1937
Criminals of the Air
as Captain Wallace
★5.5
MOVIE1947
Violence
as Dr. Chalmers
★6.3
MOVIE1953
Marshal of Cedar Rock
as Stover - Prison Warden
★5.3
MOVIE1942
Phantom Killer
as John G. Harrison
★6.8
MOVIE1942
Syncopation
★7.3
MOVIE1952
Listen Judge
as George Morton (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1944
The Port of 40 Thieves
as Mr. Fellows
★7.7
MOVIE1954
Superman Flies Again
as Perry White
★4.8
MOVIE1945
Sensation Hunters
as Night Court Judge
★10.0
MOVIE1937
Fifty Roads to Town
as Captain Carroll
MOVIE1952
The McGurk Way
as Speaker
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Sucker List
as James Sawyer (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1947
News Hounds
as Timothy X. 'Big Tim' Donlin
★5.6
MOVIE1939
Full Confession
as The Judge (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1949
Bandit King of Texas
as John Turner
★8.0
MOVIE1954
City Story
★5.5
MOVIE1941
Borrowed Hero
as William Brooks
★5.5
MOVIE1944
Sheriff of Las Vegas
as Homer Blackwell
★6.5
MOVIE1939
The Bill of Rights
as Colonel George Mason
★6.7
MOVIE1939
Rose of Washington Square
as Judge
★7.3
MOVIE1954
Superman and Scotland Yard
as Perry White
★6.7
MOVIE1953
Man of Conflict
as Mr. Cornwall
★5.7
MOVIE1938
Hunted Men
as Police Commissioner
★5.7
MOVIE1938
Hunted Men
as CommissionerPolice
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Missing Witnesses
as Police Chief Elmer H. Davis (uncredited)
★4.3
MOVIE1937
Night Club Scandal
as Governor
★6.5
MOVIE1951
Million Dollar Pursuit
as Police Inspector Morgan
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Raiders of the South
as George Boone
★9.0
MOVIE1947
Bandits of Dark Canyon
as Ben Shaw
★6.0
MOVIE1953
Jack McCall, Desperado
as Col. Cornish
★6.4
MOVIE1946
The Madonna's Secret
as Lambert
★9.0
MOVIE1940
The Great Plane Robbery
as Dr. Jamison
★6.1
MOVIE1946
The Secret of the Whistler
as McLaren aka Mac (uncredited)
★5.8
MOVIE1945
Northwest Trail
as John Owens
★9.0
MOVIE1938
I Stand Accused
as Defense Attorney Brower
★8.0
MOVIE1950
The Missourians
as Mayor Grant McDowall
★4.0
MOVIE1937
Murder Is News
as David Corning
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Legion of Terror
as Cummings
★7.2
MOVIE1941
Strange Alibi
as Judge
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Blondie in the Dough
as Premier Biscuit Board Member (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1948
Song of My Heart
as Czar
★6.0
MOVIE1936
A Man Betrayed
as Mr. Carlton
★5.9
MOVIE1940
The Golden Fleecing
as Judge (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1942
I Was Framed
as Judge
★8.7
MOVIE1954
Superman and the Jungle Devil
as Perry White
★6.7
MOVIE1941
I Killed That Man
as District Attorney
★6.0
MOVIE1940
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
as Capt. Broad
★5.8
MOVIE1939
Smashing the Money Ring
as Night Captain
★5.2
MOVIE1944
Crazy Knights
as Mr. Gardner
★6.0
MOVIE1944
I'm from Arkansas
as Harry Cashin
★4.6
MOVIE1946
The Brute Man
as Professor Cushman (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1942
Escape from Crime
as Rafferty
★8.0
MOVIE1946
Johnny Comes Flying Home
as C.H. Metters (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1939
Forged Passport
as Jack Rogers aka 'Lefty'
★7.0
MOVIE1930
Heads Up
as Capt. Whitney
★5.1
MOVIE1940
Murder in the Air
as Hargrave
★9.0
MOVIE1941
Unfinished Rainbows
as Matthew Griswold
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Lady from Nowhere
as Commissioner
★5.6
MOVIE1945
Strange Illusion
as Mr. Allen
★4.8
MOVIE1939
Old Hickory
as Governor Clairborne of Louisiana
★5.5
MOVIE1939
Stronger Than Desire
as Second Trial Judge (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Daredevils of the West
as Senator Garfield
★6.6
MOVIE1952
Target
as Bailey
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Two-Fisted Gentleman
as Frank Boyd
★9.0
MOVIE1931
The Week End Mystery
★5.4
MOVIE1932
The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
as Inspector Carr
MOVIE1931
Success
as Mr. Kelly - Molly's Father
★6.7
MOVIE1932
The Symphony Murder Mystery
as Insp. Carr
★9.0
MOVIE1944
Meet Miss Bobby Socks
as R.N. Swanson
★7.5
MOVIE1948
The Gentleman from Nowhere
as Judge
★6.2
MOVIE1931
The Wall Street Mystery
as Inspector Carr
★7.5
MOVIE1932
The Studio Murder Mystery
as Insp. Carr
★5.8
MOVIE1932
The Skull Murder Mystery
as Inspector Carr
★6.5
MOVIE1950
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
as Judge Ralph Townsend
★7.0
MOVIE1932
Murder in the Pullman
as Detective
★7.0
MOVIE1932
The Campus Mystery
as Inspector Carr
MOVIE1931
The Gigolo Racket
as George Burke
★9.0
MOVIE1931
The Clyde Mystery
as Inspector Carr
★7.0
MOVIE1932
The Crane Poison Case
as Inspector Carr
★9.0
MOVIE1932
The Cole Case
as Inspector Carr
★9.0
MOVIE1932
The Side Show Mystery
as Inspector Carr