Hamilton Camp(1934-2005)

Hamilton Camp was born Robin S. Camp and later performed under that name and as Bob Camp when he played in a folk duo with Bob Gibson. Their influential album, "Gibson and Camp at the Gate of Horn", was recorded in Chicago in 1961. When they broke up, Camp continued to work as a solo act. He adopted the name Hamilton Camp around the same time his solo album "Paths of Victory" was released in 1964. After working as a child actor, Camp began acting again in 1961 with the Second City in Chicago, and with The Committee in San Francisco in the mid-1960s. This lead to television and theatre work, and the occasional film. During the 1970s (after his acceptance into Subud, a spiritual community) he was sometimes credited as Hamid Hamilton Camp. He has occasionally returned to music over the years, and released a new album in 1999 called "Mardi's Bard", dedicated to the late Mardi Nowak Arquette (also known as Brenda Denaut), wife of Lewis Arquette, and mother of Rosanna, Patricia, David, Richmond, and the late Alexis.