Biography
Hamilton Camp was evacuated from his native London to the U.S. during World War II. A stage actor from childhood, Camp reportedly made his film debut in RKO's
Bedlam (1945) The slight-statured comic actor flourished on American TV from the early 1960s onward, guesting on such series as
The Mary Tyler Moore Show and appearing as a regular on
He and She (1967), Paul Sills' Story Theatre (1971) and Just Our Luck (1983). He also would have been one of the comedy troupers on the anything-goes revue series
Turn-On (1969), had this notorious bomb survived past its first episode. Camp has shown up in only a handful of feature films, notably the 1967 spoof
The Perils of Pauline. More recently, Hamilton Camp has been a prolific cartoon voiceover artist, providing a limitless array of characterizations on such TV animated series as
The Smurfs,
The Flintstone Kids, and
DuckTales. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide