Hamilton Camp

**Hamilton Camp** (30 October 1934 – 2 October 2005) was an English-American singer-songwriter, actor and voice actor.[1]

Camp's debut as a folk singer was at the Newport Folk Festival in 1960; and his first recording, with Bob Gibson, was *Bob Gibson & Bob Camp at the Gate of Horn*, from 1961.[1] Over the next four decades he maintained a dual career as a musician/songwriter and as an actor. He appeared in nearly one hundred films and television programmes. Camp is probably best known, however, as the author of the song "Pride of Man", which was recorded by a number of artists, notably Quicksilver Messenger Service and Gordon Lightfoot, who included it as one of three songs by other songwriters on his first record.

An early Gibson & Camp gospel song, "You Can Tell the World" was the opening track on Simon & Garfunkel's first album, *Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.* As a singer, Camp had a minor hit with the song "Here's to You," which peaked at number 76 on the *Billboard* Hot 100 in 1968. In 1969 Camp formed a group called The True Brethren with Waqidi Falicoff (guitar, vocals), Raphael Grinage (cello) and Loren Pickford (flute and saxophone). The four later composed the incidental music for the Broadway show Paul Sills' Story Theatre, which won two Tony awards and was nominated for best show in the 1971 awards.

His voice work as "Elle" the robot policeman in the 1978 film *Starcrash* is a cult favourite and he had a memorable role in the 1976 Peter Bogdanovich film *Nickelodeon*. He also performed with the Chicago comedy troupe The Second City and the San Francisco satirical comedy troupe the Committee and appeared in a number of stage productions, including a 2004 production of *A Midsummer Night's Dream* at the Hollywood Bowl.

His television work includes a supporting role on *He & She*, a sitcom starring Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss, which ran for one season in 1967–68. He guest-starred on popular television shows such as *The Monkees*, *M\*A\*S\*H*,[1] *Soap*, *The Mary Tyler Moore Show*,[1] *The Twilight Zone*, *Starsky and Hutch*, *Cheers*, *The Andy Griffith Show*, *Bewitched*, *Gomer Pyle, USM.C.*, *Three's Company* and *Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman*, as the older H. G. Wells. He appeared on two episodes of *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* as Leck, a Ferengi and on one episode of *Star Trek: Voyager* as a *Malon* freighter pilot.[2]

In 1977, Camp appeared in three episodes of *The Feather and Father Gang*. In the 1978 opening season of *WKRP in Cincinnati*, Camp guest-starred in the fifth episode as Del Murdock, owner of Del's Stereo and Sound. He returned to WKRP as Johnny Fever's ex-wife's new fiancé. Also in 1978, he played Warren Beatty's valet, Bentley, in *Heaven Can Wait*. In 1980, he appeared as a semi-regular on *Too Close for Comfort* as Arthur Wainwright, the adventurous, youth-oriented boss of Henry Rush, and on the FOX sitcom *Titus* as Erin Fitzpatrick's alcoholic father, Merritt. He played Bart Furley, brother of Don Knotts' character Ralph Furley, on an episode of *Three's Company*, "Furley vs. Furley". He also voiced Professor Moriarty in the English dub of the anime series *Sherlock Hound*.

He was the voice of Fenton Crackshell, aka GizmoDuck, on the Disney animated series *DuckTales* and its spinoff *Darkwing Duck*. He played the role of old Malcolm Corley in LucasArts' graphic adventure *Full Throttle*. He voiced the Prophet of Mercy in the 2004 video game *Halo 2*.

He became Disney Studio's new voice of Merlin, following the death of Karl Swenson. Hamilton Camp also voiced for Hanna–Barbera; as Greedy Smurf and Harmony Smurf on *The Smurfs* series and all of HB's Smurf television specials, Count Dracula in *Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf*, Turk Tarpit in *The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones*, Mr. Gruber in *Paddington Bear*, The Grand Dozer on *Potsworth & Co.*, Samurai Ghost on the episode "Now Museum, Now You Don't" from *A Pup Named Scooby-Doo* and Barney Rubble as a kid in *The Flintstones Kids*. Camp's final work was on the film *Hard Four* in early 2005, as well as a musical album produced by James Lee Stanley called *Sweet Joy*, completed shortly before his death.