The perma-tanned actor, playboy and unreal beauty back in the day turns 75 this summer. More photos and a few notes after the jump...
George Hamilton 50+ years ago during the early years of his fame.
George in 1966 
George in his natural habitat
Where the Boys Are (1960) was a breakthrough
George & Liz (one of the few paramours she DIDN'T marry) at Cannes in the 80s
George & Liz again. © Ralph Dominguez
Hamilton is in some ways a tacky celebrity, all TV reality / game show ready (Dancing With the Stars was hardly new territory) and of modest talent but he used it well when he found the right opportunities. His career peak was undoubtedly in the late 70s early 80s when his healthy sense of his own ridiculousness paid off in the Dracula spoof Love at First Bite (1979) and his comic dual role spin on the most legendary of swashbucklers, Zorro The Gay Blade (1981) in which he played both the latin lover swordsman and his gay twin brother Bunny Wigglesworth. It's not quite as offensive as it sounds, surprisingly. He was Golden Globe nominated for both.
Have you ever seen Where the Boys Are (1960)? It's not much of a movie but it's such a time capsule of social mores of the late 50s as many teen angst films are in their day