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Donald Hamilton

Writer, Additional Credits
Born March 24, 1919Died November 20, 2006 (87 years)
Born abroad the son of a Swedish count who renounced his title when he emigrated to the U.S., Donald Hamilton graduated from the University of Chicago and served in the Navy during the second World War. He has published 26 novels in the Matt Helm Series from 1960-1992, as well as several other novels and magazine articles. At last word, he was living aboard his motor-yacht, "Kathleen", somewhere in Connecticut. One of the last truly "American" suspense series writers, his Matt Helm series, although badly translated to the screen for Columbia Pictures, starring Dean Martin, ranks up there with John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee as the quintessential American anti-hero.

Date of Birth 24 March 1916, Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Date of Death 20 November 2006, Visby, Gotland, Sweden

Known For

  • The Big Country
  • The Wrecking Crew
  • The Violent Men
  • The Ambushers
  • The Silencers
  • Murderers' Row
  • 5 Steps to Danger

Filmography

1968
The Wrecking Crew · as Novel
1967
The Ambushers · as Novel
1966
Murderers' Row · as Novel
1966
The Silencers · as Novel
1958
The Big Country · as Novel
1956
5 Steps to Danger · as Novel
1955
The Violent Men · as Novel

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