George "Spike" Hamilton (January 13, 1901[1]– March 31, 1957)[2] was a popular bandleader[3] and songwriter[4] who led a band based at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

He studied violin as a child,[6] attended local schools in Newport and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1923.

[7] After leaving Dartmouth his orchestra played in Chicago and then in Atlantic City at the Million Dollar Pier.

"[4][6] Hamilton appeared in the movie Gift of Gab (1934), and in the short film Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937).

[10] In his actor son's 2008 memoir, Don't Mind if I Do, George Hamilton said that he had sexual relations with June Howard, then his stepmother, at the age of 12, and then years later when he was an adult.