- His younger brother was Joseph Hamilton a character actor in the 1950's and 1960's that appeared in B-movies and TV serials such as: The Andy Griffith Show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, and Gunsmoke.
- He continued working in the community theatre after he left Hollywood in the summer of 1929. He served as Director of Dramatics at St. Martin's College from the fall of 1929 to mid- 1934 in Lacey, Washington and directed theatrical plays and then in the late 30's at Asbury Methodist Church in Tacoma, WA. He had his own actor's guild and company called Western Dramatic Producers based in Olympia, WA that traveled throughout the northwest and Oregon. He returned to Hollywood briefly in 1939 to appear as an extra in Zenobia. Later in life he worked for the Department of Transportation for the state of Washington for 18 years retiring with the rank of Sargent in 1959.
- He also had an older brother, Edward Hamilton, that worked for more than one studio as a boom operator and sound technician in the early 30's when all the studios were making films with sound.
- His older sister was Gertrude Brooke Hamilton, a fictional short story author during the silent film era. One of her short stories became the inspiration for a screen play written by Charles Maigne for the film The Hushed Hour 1919. She produced over 100 short stories that were published in many magazines that were in circulation at that time.
- Said to have a baritone to bass voice according to family members, although all of the sound films he was in are lost. The only speaking part where his voice was heard was the film Zenobia 1939 where he says one word as an extra among a crowd of townspeople.
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