Donald Hamilton

Donald Hamilton

  • Birthday: 1919-03-24
  • Deathday: 2006-11-20
  • Also know as: Donald Bengtsson Hamilton

Biography

Born abroad the son of a Swedish count who renounced his title when he emigrated to the U.S., Donald Hamilton graduated from the University of Chicago and served in the Navy during the second World War. He has published 26 novels in the Matt Helm Series from 1960-1992, as well as several other novels and magazine articles. At last word, he was living aboard his motor-yacht, "Kathleen", somewhere in Connecticut. One of the last truly "American" suspense series writers, his Matt Helm series, although badly translated to the screen for Columbia Pictures, starring Dean Martin, ranks up there with John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee as the quintessential American anti-hero. Date of Birth 24 March 1916, Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden Date of Death 20 November 2006, Visby, Gotland, Sweden

Production

The Wrecking Crew

1968

As Novel

The Silencers

1966

As Novel

The Big Country

1958

As Novel

Murderers' Row

1966

As Novel

The Ambushers

1967

As Novel

Five Steps to Danger

1956

As Novel

The Violent Men

1955

As Novel

Matt Helm

1975

As Characters

Matt Helm

0000

As Novel

Five Steps to Danger

1956

As Story

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