Hamilton Camp

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Hamilton Camp as Leck.

Actor Hamilton Camp (October 30, 1934 – October 2, 2005) made three guest appearances on Star Trek, with his largest role being Leck, whom he played in the Deep Space Nine episodes "Ferengi Love Songs" and "The Magnificent Ferengi". He also played Vrelk in the Voyager episode "Extreme Risk."

As an actor, Camp is perhaps best known for his role as Andrew Hummell in the 1968-69 television series, He & She. His co-stars on this series were fellow Deep Space Nine guest actors Kenneth Mars and Alan Oppenheimer.

In the 1980s, Camp became well-versed and highly recognized as a voiceover actor, giving voice to such characters as Greedy and Harmony Smurf on The Smurfs (1981-1990) and the feather-brained superhero Gizmoduck (and his alter ego, Fenton Crackshell) on Disney's DuckTales (1987-1990) and Darkwing Duck (1991-1995). He was also one of the additional voices in Disney's 1989 film, The Little Mermaid, which also featured the voices of Kenneth Mars, Gerrit Graham, and Camp's DS9 castmate, Rene Auberjonois.

Camp also has several feature film appearances to his credit. As a child actor, he had uncredited roles in the 1950 films The Happy Years and Kim, both of which starred Dean Stockwell (with the latter featuring Arnold Moss and Michael Ansara). He also had an uncredited role in Robert Wise's Executive Suite in 1954.

Throughout his later career, he has appeared in such films as 1976's Nickelodeon (with Brian Keith), 1978's Heaven Can Wait, the 1982 cult comedy Eating Raoul (starring Robert Beltran and also featuring Ed Begley, Jr.), 1983's Under Fire (with Joanna Cassidy), 1984's Meatballs Part II (with John Larroquette), and 1988's Bird (with Tim Russ, Bill Cobbs, and Tony Todd).

In 1990, Camp was one of many Star Trek alumni to appear in the popular detective film Dick Tracy. Also on board were Paul Sorvino, Seymour Cassel, John Schuck, Robert Costanzo, Bert Remsen, Michael J. Pollard, Ian Wolfe, and Colm Meaney. The following year, Camp and his fellow DS9 co-star, Armin Shimerman, starred together in the science fiction film Arena. Marc Alaimo also starred in this film.

Outside of acting, Camp was well-known as a folk singer. As Bob Camp, he was part of a duo, along with Bob Gibson, during the late 50s and early 60s. Since then, he has branched out into a successful solo career, during which he began using the name Hamilton. Despite the decision to become a full-time actor, Camp still occasionally returned to music, recording one album in 1999 and another which is slated to be released at the end of 2005.

Sadly, Hamilton Camp passed away on October 2nd, 2005 following a heart attack. He was 71 years old.

External Links

• Official Web Site
• Template:IMDb-link
• Hamilton Camp at Wikipedia
• Article on his passing from Trek Today