Question: Edward Leslie Hamilton, billed as Ted Hamilton is an Australian singer, composer, playwright, entrepreneur and actor, and is possibly best known for playing the Pirate King in "The Pirate Movie", an Australian musical romantic comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol, released in which year?

Context articles: Title to Murder
Very Important Person (film)
Children of the Bride
Hairspray (2007 film)
The Pirate Movie
A Night in Heaven
Exchange Lifeguards
Signal One (film)
Ted Hamilton
Value for Money

Title to Murder is a 2001 American action romantic comedy independent film directed by Stephen Furst, starring Maureen McCormick and Christopher Atkins, and based on a story by C. Lee Tocci.
 It had its world premiere on May 15, 2001 at the Cannes Film Festival.
Very Important Person (retitled A Coming Out Party in the United States) is a 1961 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin and written by Jack Davies and Henry Blyth.
 The cast includes several well-known British comedy and character actors, including James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter in a dual role as a dour Scottish prisoner and a German prisoner-of-war camp officer, Eric Sykes, John Le Mesurier, Leslie Phillips and Richard Wattis.
Children of the Bride is a 1990 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jonathan Sanger and starring Rue McClanahan, Kristy McNichol, Jack Coleman, Anne Bobby, Conor O'Farrell and Patrick Duffy.
 The film premiered on CBS on October 5, 1990 and was released on DVD in 2003.
 The film was followed by two sequels: "Baby of the Bride" (1991) and "Mother of the Bride" (1993).
Hairspray is a 2007 musical romantic comedy film based on the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on John Waters's 1988 comedy film of the same name.
 The film is a British-American venture produced by Ingenious Media and Zadan/Meron Productions.
 Adapted from both Waters's 1988 script and Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell's book for the stage musical by screenwriter Leslie Dixon, the 2007 film version of "Hairspray" was directed and choreographed by Adam Shankman and has an ensemble cast including John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney, and Nikki Blonsky in her feature film debut.
 Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows the "pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad as she pursues stardom as a dancer on a local TV show and rallies against racial segregation.
The Pirate Movie is a 1982 Australian musical romantic comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol.
 Loosely based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera "The Pirates of Penzance", the original music score is composed by Mike Brady and Peter Sullivan (no relation to "Pirates of Penzance" composer Arthur Sullivan).
A Night in Heaven is a 1983 American romance film directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Christopher Atkins as a college student and Lesley Ann Warren as his professor.
 The film's screenplay was written by Joan Tewkesbury.
 Film critics widely panned the film.
Exchange Lifeguards is a 1992 Australian-American comedy film directed by Maurice Murphy and starring Christopher Atkins, Julian McMahon and Elliott Gould.
 The american title is Wet and Wild Summer!
Signal One (also known as Bullet Down Under) is a 1994 Australian film directed by Rob Stewart and starring Christopher Atkins, Mark Jackson, Richard Carter, and Virginia Hey.
 It is a buddy cop movie.
Edward Leslie Hamilton (OAM) (born 1937), billed as Ted Hamilton is an Australian singer, composer, playwright, entrepreneur and actor.
 He is possibly best known for playing the Pirate King in "The Pirate Movie" and police constable Kevin Dwyer in "Division 4" (1969–73).
 More recently, he played Merlin in the TV series "Guinevere Jones".
Value for Money is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring John Gregson, Donald Pleasence, Leslie Phillips, Joan Hickson, Derek Farr and Diana Dors.