Antony Hamilton - Career

Career

In 1972, during a dance tour in Europe with The Australian Ballet, he was "discovered" by a fashion photographer. This resulted in Hamilton soon after leaving the ballet and moving to the USA to pursue a career as a model. During the following 10 years, he worked extensively as a model in Europe, America, Asia and Africa, becoming a favorite subject of world-famous photographers as Richard Avedon and Bruce Weber, often working with famous fashion designers such as Gianni Versace, and frequently appearing in magazines such as Vogue and GQ.

After having worked for a while as a model, Hamilton also began taking acting classes, wanting to expand his career. He eventually got his big break as an actor (replacing Jon-Erik Hexum who died in an accident on the set) in the American TV-series Cover Up (1984). As an actor, however, he is probably better known for the role of Impossible Missions Force agent Max Harte, a former ANZAC commando, in the 1988 revival of the American television series Mission: Impossible, as well as for playing Samson in the 1984 television film Samson and Delilah.

Says Bob Murray, a Hamilton fan and biographer: For all intents and purposes, he was discovered playing Samson. Antony tested for Cover Up using the same scene that Jennifer and Jon-Erik shot in the pilot, where the characters are introduced to each other. He was pretty much cast on the spot. I think this was a time in his career with anyone who had a hand in Antony Hamilton's life decided they were going to push him. This was going to be his catalyst into the spotlight. Douglas Snauffer – The show must go on: how the deaths of lead actors have affected television series (ISBN 0786432950) (pag. 91) "I'd get up at 5 for Mirrors, be on that set all day, start work on Cover Up at 7 P.M., work until 2 A.M., and then start the whole cycle over again. A couple of times they had to fly me from one set to another by helicopter. At one point, I called my father in Australia to bitch about this backbreaking schedule. Dad said, "Let me tell you a war story. In the Battle of Britain, I fought the Luftwaffe every day from 3 A.M. until midnight. My valet had to get me up after two hours' sleep. He'd be court-martialled if he didn't have my signature on his wake-up slip. And that went on for months. So don't complain, son." I stopped complaining". Antony Hamilton for a magazine, reproduced by IMDb.com British actor Antony Hamilton, 30, who replaced Jon-Erik Hexum in the recently shelved CBS series COVER UP, has been talking with producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli about replacing Roger Moore, 57, as James Bond. Broccoli hasn't tendered an offer, says Hamilton, who claims to be undecided about stepping into the role. "It all depends on how Cubby Broccoli conceives the new Bond," contends Hamilton. Some reviews of the latest Bond flick, A View to A Kill, have suggested that Moore is getting too old to play the dashing secret agent. (by Rebecca Bricker) People Magazine, June 17, 1985 Vol. 23 No. 24

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