Biography
William Hamilton was an American film editor whose career spanned the silent era through the early 1940s. He worked at studios including First National, MGM and, for many years, RKO Pictures. His credits include Cimarron (1931), Morning Glory (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Top Hat (1935), Stage Door (1937), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and Suspicion (1941). He also directed several films, among them Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935) and Call Out the Marines (1942).
Hamilton was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 11 November 1893 and died in North Hollywood, California, on 3 August 1942.
