John Hamilton
Acting • Born 1887-01-16 – Died 1958-10-15
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.”
Filmography
250 credits
The Maltese Falcon
Movie • 1941
District Attorney Bryan
Rusty Leads the Way
Movie • 1948
Board Member (uncredited)
I Killed That Man
Movie • 1941
District Attorney
One Exciting Week
Movie • 1946
Dr. Jones (uncredited)
Wilson
Movie • 1944
Legislator in Wilson's Office (uncredited)
Johnny Comes Flying Home
Movie • 1946
C.H. Metters (uncredited)
Alias the Champ
Movie • 1949
Police Commissioner Bronson
Mr. Wong, Detective
Movie • 1938
Simon Dayton
It Started with Eve
Movie • 1941
Thomas - Headwaiter (uncredited)
The Clyde Mystery
Movie • 1931
Inspector Carr
The Side Show Mystery
Movie • 1932
Inspector Carr
The Crane Poison Case
Movie • 1932
Inspector Carr
The Reformer and the Redhead
Movie • 1950
Police Captain (uncredited)
Circumstantial Evidence
Movie • 1945
Gov. Hanlon
The Madonna's Secret
Movie • 1946
Lambert
Violence
Movie • 1947
Dr. Chalmers
The Roaring Twenties
Movie • 1939
Judge
Blondie in the Dough
Movie • 1947
Premier Biscuit Board Member (uncredited)
Million Dollar Pursuit
Movie • 1951
Police Inspector Morgan
I Stole a Million
Movie • 1939
Wilson
The Port of 40 Thieves
Movie • 1944
Mr. Fellows
The Judge
Movie • 1949
Lt. Edwards
Across the Pacific
Movie • 1942
Court-Martial President
The Big Shot
Movie • 1942
Judge
Escape from Crime
Movie • 1942
Rafferty
Meet John Doe
Movie • 1941
Jim (uncredited)
High Wall
Movie • 1947
Police Surgeon (uncredited)
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Movie • 1938
Philip Benton
Always in My Heart
Movie • 1942
Prison Warden
The Great Man's Lady
Movie • 1941
Sen. Grant
Sitting Bull
Movie • 1954
Ulysses S. Grant
Full Confession
Movie • 1939
The Judge (uncredited)
First Yank into Tokyo
Movie • 1945
Dr. Stacey (uncredited)
The Girl Who Dared
Movie • 1944
Beau Richmond
The Studebaker Story
Movie • 1953
Father Studebaker
Over the Wall
Movie • 1938
Warden Vance
Two-Fisted Gentleman
Movie • 1936
Frank Boyd
Phantom Killer
Movie • 1942
John G. Harrison
Chicago Confidential
Movie • 1957
Emory Morgan - Attorney (uncredited)
Target
Movie • 1952
Bailey
Hunted Men
Movie • 1938
Police Commissioner
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
Movie • 1940
Capt. Broad
Standing Room Only
Movie • 1944
General
Borrowed Hero
Movie • 1941
William Brooks
The Man Who Cried Wolf
Movie • 1937
Judge
The Flying Missile
Movie • 1950
Senator
Murder Is News
Movie • 1937
David Corning
Bad Guy
Movie • 1937
Warden
So This Is Love
Movie • 1953
Charlie
Doctor Rhythm
Movie • 1938
Insp. Bryce
You Can't Take It with You
Movie • 1938
Kirby's Dining Guest (uncredited)
Lady from Nowhere
Movie • 1936
Commissioner
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Movie • 1941
Police Chief (uncredited)
The Studio Murder Mystery
Movie • 1932
Insp. Carr
Meet Miss Bobby Socks
Movie • 1944
R.N. Swanson
I Stand Accused
Movie • 1938
Defense Attorney Brower
The Rose Bowl Story
Movie • 1952
Dr. Lansing
The Forgotten Woman
Movie • 1939
Dr. May
Strange Alibi
Movie • 1941
Judge
The Spirit of Culver
Movie • 1939
Maj. White
Never Wave at a WAC
Movie • 1953
Sen. Holbrook (uncredited)
Sugarfoot
Movie • 1951
Judge Backus
City Story
Movie • 1954
Craig's Wife
Movie • 1936
Detective (uncredited)
Two in a Crowd
Movie • 1936
Purdy
The Trans-Atlantic Mystery
Movie • 1932
Inspector Carr
The Wall Street Mystery
Movie • 1931
Inspector Carr
Too Many Winners
Movie • 1947
Albert Payson
The Checkered Coat
Movie • 1948
Marcus Anson
Canadian Pacific
Movie • 1949
Pere Lacomb
Angels Wash Their Faces
Movie • 1939
Officer H.A. Merton (uncredited)
Old Hickory
Movie • 1939
Governor Clairborne of Louisiana
Aerial Gunner
Movie • 1943
Doctor (uncredited)
The McGurk Way
Movie • 1952
Speaker
Secret Service of the Air
Movie • 1939
Warden Jackson
Up in Arms
Movie • 1944
Man In Theatre Lobby (uncredited)
Key Witness
Movie • 1947
R. C. Hurlbert - Coroner (uncredited)
Stronger Than Desire
Movie • 1939
Second Trial Judge (uncredited)
Smashing the Money Ring
Movie • 1939
Night Captain
Girls on Probation
Movie • 1938
Police Chief
Keep 'Em Rolling
Movie • 1934
Major in France Battlefield
Devil's Island
Movie • 1939
Captain of Second Convict Ship
Heads Up
Movie • 1930
Capt. Whitney
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Movie • 1939
Harry - Conference Room Businessman
Blind Alley
Movie • 1939
Warden
Rose of Washington Square
Movie • 1939
Judge
They Shall Have Music
Movie • 1939
Detective (uncredited)
Action in Arabia
Movie • 1944
Mr. Hamilton
Dr. Broadway
Movie • 1942
Inspector (uncredited)
Christmas Holiday
Movie • 1944
Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Swanee River
Movie • 1939
Doctor
Dust Be My Destiny
Movie • 1939
First Warden (uncredited)
Espionage Agent
Movie • 1939
Code Room Instructor
Three Smart Girls
Movie • 1936
Desk Lieutenant at Police Station
You, the People
Movie • 1940
Frank Y. Carter
Missing Witnesses
Movie • 1937
Police Chief Elmer H. Davis (uncredited)
Donovan's Brain
Movie • 1953
Mr. McNish (uncredited)
The Judge Steps Out
Movie • 1947
Diner on Train (uncredited)
Crazy Knights
Movie • 1944
Mr. Gardner
Dangerously Yours
Movie • 1937
Roberts
Night Club Scandal
Movie • 1937
Governor
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Movie • 1940
Hirsch
Brother Rat and a Baby
Movie • 1940
Judge
Military Academy with That Tenth Avenue Gang
Movie • 1950
Judge Ralph Townsend
Hold Back the Dawn
Movie • 1941
Mac - Studio Receptionist (uncredited)
Outcasts of the City
Movie • 1958
Stamp Day for Superman
Movie • 1954
Perry White
Legion of Terror
Movie • 1936
Cummings
The Devil On Wheels
Movie • 1947
Mr. Davis
Two Wise Maids
Movie • 1937
Grover Wentworth
Pioneer Marshal
Movie • 1949
Man with Bracelet
Forged Passport
Movie • 1939
Jack Rogers aka 'Lefty'
Listen Judge
Movie • 1952
George Morton (uncredited)
Johnny Apollo
Movie • 1940
Night Court Judge
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Movie • 1939
FBI Chief (uncredited)
Over My Dead Body
Movie • 1942
District Attorney Stuart Drinkwater
A Man Betrayed
Movie • 1936
Mr. Carlton
Northwest Trail
Movie • 1945
John Owens
The Phantom Rider
Movie • 1946
Senator Williams
Voice of the Whistler
Movie • 1945
Doctor (uncredited)
Syncopation
Movie • 1942
The Sea of Grass
Movie • 1947
Forrest Hamilton (uncredited)
This Is My Affair
Movie • 1937
Warden
Boom Town
Movie • 1940
McMasters' Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Government Girl
Movie • 1943
Irate Man (uncredited)
Flight Command
Movie • 1940
Pensacola Commander (uncredited)
They Drive by Night
Movie • 1940
Defense Attorney (uncredited)
Lady with Red Hair
Movie • 1940
Defense Attorney Graham (uncredited)
The Flag of Humanity
Movie • 1940
Gen. James Garfield
The Secret of the Whistler
Movie • 1946
McLaren aka Mac (uncredited)
The Golden Fleecing
Movie • 1940
Judge (uncredited)
News Hounds
Movie • 1947
Timothy X. 'Big Tim' Donlin
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Movie • 1940
Professor Gordon
The Pace That Thrills
Movie • 1952
Sour Puss
Dangerous Nan McGrew
Movie • 1930
Grant
Success
Movie • 1931
Mr. Kelly - Molly's Father
The Gallant Legion
Movie • 1948
Speaker of the House
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Movie • 1943
J.C. Allison
The Flying Missile
Movie • 1950
Second Senator
The Wyoming Bandit
Movie • 1949
Marshal
Badman's Gold
Movie • 1951
The Marshal
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout
Movie • 1950
Col. Pollard
The Missourians
Movie • 1950
Mayor Grant McDowall
Sheriff of Las Vegas
Movie • 1944
Homer Blackwell
Marshal of Cedar Rock
Movie • 1953
Stover - Prison Warden
Daredevils of the West
Movie • 1943
Senator Garfield
Bandits of Dark Canyon
Movie • 1947
Ben Shaw
Zorro's Black Whip
Movie • 1944
Mr. Walsh
Boys Town
Movie • 1938
Prison Warden (uncredited)
Home on the Range
Movie • 1946
State Official
Raiders of the South
Movie • 1947
George Boone
The James Brothers of Missouri
Movie • 1949
Lon Royer [Ch.1]
Desperadoes of Dodge City
Movie • 1948
Land Agent
The Gigolo Racket
Movie • 1931
George Burke
Bandit King of Texas
Movie • 1949
John Turner
Law of the Golden West
Movie • 1949
Isaac Cody, Bill's father
Sheriff of Wichita
Movie • 1949
Prison Warden
Run for the Hills
Movie • 1953
Mr. Harvester
Jack McCall, Desperado
Movie • 1953
Col. Cornish
They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Colonel (uncredited)
The Miami Story
Movie • 1954
Clifton Staley
The Skull Murder Mystery
Movie • 1932
Inspector Carr
The Week End Mystery
Movie • 1931
Pacific Blackout
Movie • 1941
Police Captain
I Was Framed
Movie • 1942
Judge
Tear Gas Squad
Movie • 1940
Chief Ferris
Never Wave at a WAC
Movie • 1953
Senator Holbrook
Annie Get Your Gun
Movie • 1950
Ship Captain (uncredited)
It Could Happen to You
Movie • 1937
Judge
Murder in the Air
Movie • 1940
Hargrave
Seventh Heaven
Movie • 1937
Gendarme
Fifty Roads to Town
Movie • 1937
Captain Carroll
The Invisible Monster
Movie • 1950
"Henry Miller"
Wife Wanted
Movie • 1946
Judge
The Bill of Rights
Movie • 1939
Colonel George Mason
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Movie • 1947
Harper (uncredited)
Walk a Crooked Mile
Movie • 1948
G.W. Hunter
On Dress Parade
Movie • 1939
A Co. Maneuvers Colonel (uncredited)
So's Your Uncle
Movie • 1943
Mr. Craig
Crazy House
Movie • 1943
Outraged Director
Larceny with Music
Movie • 1943
Important banker
Mission to Moscow
Movie • 1943
Charlie - American Newsman (uncredited)
Torture Money
Movie • 1937
Capt. Michael Karnahan (uncredited)
Flight from Destiny
Movie • 1941
Judge
Bunco Squad
Movie • 1950
John Deming (uncredited)
Song of My Heart
Movie • 1948
Czar
Strange Bargain
Movie • 1949
Employee at Meeting (uncredited)
Badman's Territory
Movie • 1946
Commissioner Taylor (uncredited)
Sucker List
Movie • 1941
James Sawyer (uncredited)
The Naughty Nineties
Movie • 1945
Sheriff of Ironville (uncredited)
She Had to Eat
Movie • 1937
Police Captain (uncredited)
On Stage Everybody
Movie • 1945
Mr. Smoothasilk (uncredited)
Mom and Dad
Movie • 1945
Dr. Burnell
The Great Flamarion
Movie • 1945
Coroner (uncredited)
The Cole Case
Movie • 1932
Inspector Carr
Magnificent Doll
Movie • 1946
Mr. Witherspoon (uncredited)
I'm from Arkansas
Movie • 1944
Harry Cashin
The Great Plane Robbery
Movie • 1940
Dr. Jamison
Invisible Stripes
Movie • 1939
Captain Johnson (uncredited)
Murder in the Pullman
Movie • 1932
Detective
In This Our Life
Movie • 1942
Police Inspector Millett
Criminals of the Air
Movie • 1937
Captain Wallace
Sensation Hunters
Movie • 1945
Night Court Judge
Iron Mountain Trail
Movie • 1953
Circuit Judge
Maisie Goes to Reno
Movie • 1944
Judge Carter (Uncredited)
The Brute Man
Movie • 1946
Professor Cushman (uncredited)
Bobby Ware Is Missing
Movie • 1955
Stearns - Goodwin's Associate (uncredited)
Moby Dick
Movie • 1954
'Jeroboam' Captain
Step by Step
Movie • 1946
Police Capt. Edmonds
The Symphony Murder Mystery
Movie • 1932
Insp. Carr
The Men
Movie • 1950
Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
Criminal Lawyer
Movie • 1951
Police Captain Loomis
Man of Conflict
Movie • 1953
Mr. Cornwall
The Gentleman from Nowhere
Movie • 1948
Judge
Stand Up and Cheer!
Movie • 1934
Presidential Naval Aide
Hunted Men
Movie • 1938
CommissionerPolice
Superman and Scotland Yard
Movie • 1954
Perry White
Superman and the Jungle Devil
Movie • 1954
Perry White
Superman Flies Again
Movie • 1954
Perry White
Superman in Exile
Movie • 1954
Perry White
Superman's Peril
Movie • 1954
Perry White
Unfinished Rainbows
Movie • 1941
Matthew Griswold
Johnny Angel
Movie • 1945
Harbor Master (uncredited)
The Campus Mystery
Movie • 1932
Inspector Carr
Hi, Beautiful
Movie • 1944
Board Member (uncredited)
Music in Manhattan
Movie • 1944
Mr. Bradley, the Banker (uncredited)
Too Hot to Handle
Movie • 1938
Mr. Fairfield (uncredited)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
"Jeroboam" Captain
I Led Three Lives
TV • 1953
The Count of Monte Cristo
TV • 1956
The Gene Autry Show
TV • 1950
Dan Parker
Adventures of Superman
TV • 1952
Perry White
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Colonel Norton
New York Confidential
TV • 1959
Tales of Tomorrow
TV • 1951
The Roy Rogers Show
TV • 1951
Hey, Jeannie!
TV • 1956
Mr. Barker
The Adventures of Kit Carson
TV • 1951
The Cisco Kid
TV • 1950
John Mitchell
Captain Midnight
TV • 1954
State Trooper
TV • 1956
Oscar
The Cisco Kid
TV • 1950
Thomas T. Trimble
Passport to Danger
TV • 1954
The Cisco Kid
TV • 1950
Sheriff
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Mr. Campo (uncredited)
The Gene Autry Show
TV • 1950
Jonathan Diggers
The Ed Wynn Show
TV • 1949
Self - Ed's Doctor (uncredited)
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Porter
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Treasury Men in Action
TV • 1950
Judge (uncredited)