Murray Hamilton

movie.

And then you get a little role near the end of the film, playing character of Finley, Murray Hamilton, who's the mayor from Jaws, of course.

Of course.

Along with some other roles to his credit.

I might probably.

Yeah.

So, so these, these Louisville scenes here, Finley invite Murray Hamilton bites him to invites Bert, Sarah and Eddie, but I mean, primarily Bert and Eddie to play some pool in his, in his basement of his fancy mansion.

And they get down to the basement.

Nobody calls him Steve, but he's talking to Steven Spielberg.

And Steven Spielberg was talking and he said, one of the few good experiences in 1941 was directing Eddie and Murray Hamilton on the Ferris wheel.

And I think that was because the, movie was so big and there were all these big effects but our scenes were kind of intimate

yeah

But yeah, meanwhile, Gus' plane is also mistaken for a Japanese fighter, which I don't know why exactly, because it doesn't look like one, but that's okay.

The ground crews begin firing at him, including two men, Herbie, played by Eddie Deason, and Claude, played by Murray Hamilton.

Of the Ground Observer Corps, who have been stationed at the Santa Monica amusement park to keep Rachel and the runner in disguise from the top of a Ferris wheel that they're kind of stuck on.

And one of them has a puppet, so there's some puppet humor in there as well.

Yeah, he's the patience of Mike Nicholls.

Yeah, Murray Hamilton.

I'm sure that is the guy from Jaws.

I like the fact that woman on a bus gets a name credit of Edira Gale.

He plays an aging, exhausted sidewalk salesman.

And Lou is visited by a very businesslike manifestation of death played by Murray Hamilton.

Who is always so good at that kind of stoic menace.

Oh, he's incredible.

Mm.

Um, so something I found out about this film is that the actor who plays the mayor, Murray Hamilton, his name is-

Mm

... his wife, uh, needed biopsies at the time of the recording of this film for, like, well, you know, cancer obviously.

The cinematography by Bill Butler.

It stars Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, and Murray Hamilton.

It was edited by Verna Fields, with music by John Williams.

But what was it about? From Amblin Entertainment, When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack from a great white shark, Martin Brody, the town's chief of police, Matt Hooper, a young marine biologist, and Quint, a grizzled shark hunter, embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it kills again.

them.

And we got Murray Hamilton here as Findlay.

Of course, everyone knows him from Jaws and Jaws 2, but he was in Anatomy of a Murder, Seconds, The Boston Strangler, The Graduate, turned up in the Amityville Horror later on.

Right.

happy ending so much as it is...

When he was in Louisville, he betrayed Sarah because he had the driving need to prove he was the best.

He had to prove that he could beat Murray Hamilton.

He absolutely had to do it, and he betrayed her.

Yeah.

Uh, did you recognize Murray Hamilton, the mayor from Jaws? Is-

No, I did not

... a very young man, um-