Biography
Pete Hamill was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and editor. During his career as a New York City journalist, he was described as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime."
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Book Signing
2024
Short Story
William Carmody is a successful, high profile writer living in LA. When a signing for his latest book brings him back home to Brooklyn for the first t...

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
2018
as Self
Directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy bring New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill’s courageous writing to life, celebrat...

If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent
2013
as Self
The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.

The Yellow Handkerchief
2011
Short Story
Set in Hokkaido, revolving around an ex-convict named Shima Yusaku (Abe) who has just been released from prison. Along with two young strangers that h...

The Yellow Handkerchief
2009
Writer
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.

Home
2006
Young Irish immigrant, Alan Cooke contemplates the great metropolis New York City, and the very meaning of home itself. A vivid moving and poetic port...

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
2005
as Additional Voices
The Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning short documentary explores how New York City grew from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Afr...

Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story
2005
as Self
A story of violence, love, sex, politics and media centered around the life of Griffith, a six-time world welterweight champion.

Snow in August
2001
Novel
When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.

The Insider
1999
as NY Times Reporter
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

One Fine Day
1996
as Frank Burroughs
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one mornin...

Split Images
1992
Screenplay
A journalist knows more about a grizzly murder than is good for her. All her evidence points toward a mysterious millionaire but no one will believe h...

King of New York
1990
as Pete Hamill
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and ...

The Neon Empire
1989
Writer
New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.

Laguna Heat
1987
Writer
Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the inves...

Liberty
1986
Writer
Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.

Exposed
1983
as Guest at Party
Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for he...

The Gift
1979
Novel
A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.

Flesh & Blood
1979
Novel
A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous ...

From Corleone to Brooklyn
1979
as Man in Restaurant (uncredited)
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York Ci...

The Yellow Handkerchief
1977
Short Story
The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a ...

French Connection II
1975
Screenplay
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.

Badge 373
1973
When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior ...

Badge 373
1973
Writer
When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior ...

Nightside
1973
Writer
The story of three people - a press agent, a private detective and a nightclub owner - whose careers require them to spend most of the night awake and...

Doc
1971
Screenplay
Doc Holliday travels to Tombstone, Ariz., with prostitute Katie Elder. Although the trip is difficult because Doc is ill with tuberculosis, they event...