# What Nationality It George Hamilton? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nationality-it-george-hamilton/202332 "2003-09-18T07:37:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nationality-it-george-hamilton/202332/1 "2003-09-18T07:37:41Z")
Sure he has a nice tan. But he couldn’t be in the Sun **all** the time. So what nationality is [George Hamilton](http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/allposters/77/039_36740_rt.jpg)? BTW, I’ve been wondering this for some time now. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nationality-it-george-hamilton/202332/2 "2003-09-18T08:22:22Z")
He’s from Memphis, Tenessee. > **[George Hamilton - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001313/)** > > George Hamilton, Actor: Zorro: The Gay Blade. Noted these days for his dashing, sporting, jet-setting playboy image and perpetually bronzed skin tones in commercials, film spoofs and reality shows, George Hamilton was, at the onset, a serious... ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nationality-it-george-hamilton/202332/3 "2003-09-18T10:09:51Z")
It’s ironic that he’s noted for his tan, because one of better movies roles was as Dracula in _Love at First Bite_. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nationality-it-george-hamilton/202332/4 "2003-09-18T12:06:53Z")
I love him in the new Ritz commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nationality-it-george-hamilton/202332/5 "2003-09-18T13:20:20Z")
I think he’s Tandanavian. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nationality-it-george-hamilton/202332/6 "2003-09-18T13:25:20Z")
He’s a Celebrity-American. Basically, he is famous for being famous. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nationality-it-george-hamilton/202332/7 "2003-09-18T13:40:50Z")
He was also a budding contracted film star for MGM during the dying days of the studio system. Not really a big deal, except that he is a minor link to “Old Hollywood” and the way studios used to control, mold, and groom up-and-coming stars and cultivate an image for them. He can be slightly interesting in interviews when he talks about that particular time. But, yeah, he pretty much is a professional celebrity/pitchman/occasional TV show now who specializes in portraying Hollywood phonies or parodying his own image. He’s also known for having been Shannon Doherty’s father-in-law for the blink of an eye and marrying a woman who was later married to Rod Stewart. His nationality: Hollywood Broiled Ham ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nationality-it-george-hamilton/202332/8 "2003-09-18T17:32:15Z")
Melanomian?