Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill

1935-06-24 Brooklyn, New York, USA 26 Credits

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."

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The Book Signing

The Book Signing

2024

Short Story

Writing

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

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

2018

as Self

7.1
Acting

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

If These Knishes Could Talk: The Story of the NY Accent

2013

as Self

7.6
Acting

The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.

The Yellow Handkerchief

The Yellow Handkerchief

2011

Short Story

7.3
Writing

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

The Yellow Handkerchief

2009

Writer

6.3
Writing

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

Home

Home

2006

8.6
Acting

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

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today

2005

as Additional Voices

Acting

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

Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story

2005

as Self

8.0
Acting

A story of violence, love, sex, politics and media centered around the life of Griffith, a six-time world welterweight champion.

Snow in August

Snow in August

2001

Novel

6.8

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

The Insider

The Insider

1999

as NY Times Reporter

7.5
Acting

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

One Fine Day

1996

as Frank Burroughs

6.4
Acting

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

Split Images

1992

Screenplay

Writing

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

King of New York

1990

as Pete Hamill

6.7
Acting

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

The Neon Empire

1989

Writer

1.0
Writing

New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.

Laguna Heat

Laguna Heat

1987

Writer

4.4
Writing

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

Liberty

1986

Writer

Writing

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

Exposed

1983

as Guest at Party

4.5
Acting

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

The Gift

1979

Novel

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

Flesh & Blood

Flesh & Blood

1979

Novel

5.5

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

From Corleone to Brooklyn

1979

as Man in Restaurant (uncredited)

6.2
Acting

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

The Yellow Handkerchief

1977

Short Story

6.8
Writing

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

French Connection II

1975

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

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

Badge 373

Badge 373

1973

5.5
Acting

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

Badge 373

1973

Writer

5.5
Writing

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

Nightside

1973

Writer

Writing

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

Doc

1971

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

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