His changed his name to Hamilton from Bob, and despite his lack of vertical presence (he stood only 5-foot-2), his boundless energy and quick wit made him handy to guest star in a string of familiar sitcoms of the late '60s: Gibson and Camp would split within two years, and after recording some albums as a solo artist and a brief stint with Chicago's famed Second City improvisational comedy troupe, Camp struck out on his own to work as an actor in Los Angeles. The record may have aged a bit over the years, but it is admired as an important progress in folk music by most scholars, particularly as a missing link between the classic era of Woody Guthrie and the modern singer-songwriter genre populated by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Late in 1961, they recorded an album - Gibson and Camp at the Gate of Horn, the Gate of Horn being the most renowned music venue in Chicago for the burgeoning folk scene. The pair worked in clubs all over the midwest and they soon became known for their tight vocal harmonies and Gibson's 12-string guitar style.

He began playing in small clubs around the Chicago area, and he struck oil when he partnered with a New York based folk artist, Bob Gibson in 1961. In 1946, he made his first movie, Bedlam starring Boris Karloff as an extra (as Bobby Camp) and continued in that vein until he played Thorpe, one of Dean Stockwell's classmates in Kim (1950).Īfter Kim he received some more slightly prominent parts in films: a messenger boy in Titanic (1953) and a mailroom attendant in Executive Suite (1954), but overall, Camp was never a steadily working child actor.Ĭamp relocated to Chicago in the late '50s and rediscovered his childhood passion - music. He was born October 30, 1934, in London, England.Īfter World War II, he moved to Canada and then to Long Beach with his mother and sister, where the siblings performed in USO shows. Hamilton Camp, the diminutive yet effervescent actor and singer-songwriter, who spent nearly his entire life in show business, including several appearances in both television and films, died of a heart attack on October 2 at his Los Angeles home. A minister arrives and performs the marriage ceremony as Sadie tends his wound. Charley, given a second chance, is informed of Sadie's whereabouts by the townswomen, who are eager to have Sadie married when he goes after her, she punches him in the mouth. Kittrick, a nearsighted bounty hunter, arrives in Calico and is told that Roger is an outlaw when Roger is banished from the town, Kittrick follows him. The drunken Charley does not recognize her, and at first Sadie goes along with the scheme, but when Roger Hand, Sadie's boyfriend, tries to provoke Charley into a gunfight, she returns to the saloon, and the angered townspeople throw Roger into jail. Staunch, the unofficial mayor, persuades Sadie, a bar girl at the local saloon, to pose as the missing bride from Boston. Despondent, Charley decides to leave Calico County, but the townspeople, who depend on his services, devise a plan to convince him to stay. On the day of her scheduled arrival, the entire town of Calico turns out at the railroad depot to greet her, but she is not on the train. Charley Bicker, a blacksmith with more brawn than brains, orders a mail-order bride from Boston.

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