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Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in The Terminator and its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast, for which she was nominated for two Golden Globes and an Emmy. Hamilton had a recurring role as Mary Elizabeth Bartowski on NBC's Chuck.
Hamilton was born in Salisbury, Maryland. Her mother was a Mayflower descendant and her father, Carroll Stanford Hamilton, was a physician. Hamilton's father died when she was five, and her mother remarried to a police chief.[dead link][dead link] Hamilton has an identical twin sister (Leslie Hamilton), one older sister and one younger brother. She has said that she was raised in a "very boring, white Anglo-Saxon" family, and "voraciously read books" during her spare time. Hamilton went to Wicomico Junior High (now Wicomico Middle School) and Wicomico High School in Salisbury, with her twin sister, Leslie. She studied for two years at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, before moving on to acting studies in New York City. While attending Washington College, her acting professor told her she had no hope of earning a living as an actress. In New York, she attended acting workshops given by Lee Strasberg.
Actors: Michael Warburton (actor), Doug Rollins (director), Doug Rollins (writer), Genevieve Allenbury (actress), Sam Massey (actor), Pamela Hall (actress), Bronya Deutsch (actress), Maria Dagher (costume designer), Thomas Jones (editor), Adam Damerell (actor), Alessandra Balestra (producer), Andrew Cleaver (actor),
Plot: When your life goes into meltdown how do you move on? Company boss Linda Hamilton is admired & feared by her colleagues & employees. As her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, it looks as though she really is losing her grip. For Linda the solution seems to be to retreat to her home, soul searching with her husband. A very human drama that explores what happens when you lose the thing closest to you and how you eventually let go.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Don Fernando (actor), Desiree Cousteau (actress), Annette Haven (actress), Chris Cassidy (actress), John Holmes (actor), Jesse Adams (actor), Paul Thomas (actor), John Seeman (actor), Blair Harris (actor), David Morris (actor), Michael Morrison (actor), Richard Pacheco (actor), Jon Martin (actor), Ken Scudder (actor), Dorothy LeMay (actress),
Genres: Adult, Comedy,Actors: Alan Ladd (actor), Richard V. Heermance (editor), Hans J. Salter (composer), Carolyn Jones (actress), Michael Curtiz (director), Walter Mirisch (producer), Edward Binns (actor), John Lupton (actor), Charles McGraw (actor), Douglas Evans (actor), Alan Ladd (producer), Dee Carroll (actress), Cosmo Sardo (actor), Reginald Rose (writer), Tom Helmore (actor),
Plot: John Hamilton leaves a comfortable New York job to take up as an artist in a quiet Connecticut town. His dipso wife hates the life and falsely makes him out to be selfish, unsuccessful, and, worst, someone who hits her. When she suddenly disappears suspicion falls on him and the townsfolk take the law into their own hands. Hamilton finds his only allies are the local children he has befriended.
Keywords: adultery, alcoholic, angry-mob, artist, birthday-party, cave, connecticut, framed-for-murder, murder, neo-noirActors: Lew Landers (director), Mauritz Hugo (actor), Frank Ferguson (actor), Addison Richards (actor), Rick Vallin (actor), Emmett Vogan (actor), Ray Walker (actor), Anthony Warde (actor), Pierre Watkin (actor), Frank Wisbar (director), Roy V. Livingston (editor), George Wallace Sayre (writer), George Wallace Sayre (writer), William Murphy (actor), Max Alexander (producer),
Plot: Linda Hamilton, president of Alpha Beta Sorority and Conover College campus queen, faints while at a sorority party in the company of ex-reporter Paul Reynolds, who is taking a post-graduate course. Linda learns from doctors that she has only one year to live but hesitates in telling her father, District Attorney Hamilton, who is devoting his energies to wiping out illegal gambling. Linda goes with Paul to the Blue Parrot Cabaret, a notorious gambling den. Bail bondsman Justin Farley telephones casino owner Nick Vegas that the police are about to make a raid and Vegas, knowing Linda is the district attorney's daughter, takes pictures of her. Several nights later, Paul takes Linda to another gambling house and more pictures are taken showing her at the roulette table and drinking. Realizing that she has hurt her father by going to the places he is trying to exterminate, she still goes to a plave ran by Whitey King. Reynolds arrives and he and Whitey get into a fight which is interrupted by a raid. Paul rescues Linda, who has been knocked unconscious. A motorcycle cop chases Paul's car and is killed when he runs into the car after Paul brakes sharply. Paul revives Linda and tells her she had been driving the car (quickly justifying the belief of audience members that no Rick Vallin character could stay heroic through a whole film.) Paul then goes to Linda with the pictures and reveals he is the secret leader of the gambling rackets, and tells her to ask her father to resign or he will give the newspapers the pictures. She refuses and Paul goes to civic committee meeting, where Mr. Hamilton is being proposed to run for governor, and shows him and other officials the pictures, plus Linda's stolen diary in which she has written about the wreck with the motorcycle policeman. Hamilton arrest his daughter and she is put on trial for the killing. Probably not a big deal to one who has only a few more months to live...
Keywords: blackmail, gambling, police-officer-killed