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There's so many characters they [studios] are not letting me play. And I thought, Why don't you just go produce it yourself?.

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George Hamilton
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 12
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Television Actor
Memphis
Tennessee
George Stevens Hamilton
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The first thing my agent told me in 1959 was he said you have to have something recognizable that people will remember. “What are you? Do you have cleft in your chin? You have a Jimmy Stewart kind of talk?” And I thought I don’t know what I can give them that will be different.
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