Hamilton, David, Born 1938
Dates
- Existence: Born 10 September 1938
Biography
David Hamilton is a British radio and television personality with a career spanning over five decades.
David started working in television in 1960 as an in-vision announcer on ABC TV. A year later he joined Tyne-Tees TV in Newcastle as announcer/newsreader.
Throughout the Sixties he hosted quiz shows, sports and beauty contests for stations including Anglia TV, Tyne-Tees TV and Westward TV and in 1963 he conducted one of the first TV interviews with The Beatles.
David made his U.K. radio debut as the host of The Beat Show in 1962 and fronted the show until 1965.
In 1968 he wrote and presented the final show for ABC TV, Goodbye From ABC, before the company merged with Rediffusion to form Thames Television.
In the Seventies David had prominent roles in several Benny Hill Shows for Thames TV and in 1975 appeared in The Tommy Cooper Show series. Each show ended with an interview spot with Tommy and David called Fez To Fez.
On ITV, David played the ringmaster in Chipperfield`s Circus for several years and hosted the World Disco Dance Championships in 1978 and 1979.
He continues working on television and radio in the twenty first century.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Christopher Palmer Collection
Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.
Films, 1979 - 1983
Circus films on VHS by Thames Television, including Billy Smart's Christmas and Easter circus and Big Top Variety Show.
Newspaper Cut-Out of David Hamilton, 1976
Newspaper cut-out featuring picture of David Hamilton as Ringmaster for Chipperfield’s Circus Christmas show on Thames TV, with Kathy Mackinnon.
Newspaper Cuttings, 1976 - 1979
Various newspaper cuttings on circus and showmen, including Billy Smart's Circus and Gerry Cottle.
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- Animals 2
- Music-halls 2
- Singing 2
- Variety 2
- Acrobats 1
- Aerialists 1
- Animal trainers 1
- Clowning 1
- Comedians 1
- Contortionists 1
- Dance 1
- Dwarfs (Persons) 1
- Equestrians 1
- Escape artists 1
- Fire eating 1
- Jugglers 1
- Knife throwing 1
- Magic 1
- Puppets 1
- Ringmistress 1
- Skating 1
- Strong men 1
- Sword swallowing 1
- Trampolinists 1
- Wild west 1 + ∧ less