Gilbert P. Hamilton was an American film company executive and director.
He worked at Essanay as a cinematographer, headed the St. Louis Motion Picture Company, and then launched the Albuquerque Film Manufacturing Company.
[1] Jack L. Warner described him as a tall sunburned Englishman with walrus mustache and thick accent "like a Kipling character".
[2] As a cinematographer, Hamilton collaborated with playwright and actor Lawrence Lee at Essanay in 1908.
[3] His move away from St. Louis Motion Picture Company came after it acquired Frontier Pictures and relocated to Santa Paula, California.