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Russell Craig "Rusty" Hamer (February 15, 1947 – January 18, 1990) was an American stage, film and television actor. He portrayed Rusty Williams, the wisecracking son of entertainer Danny Williams (Danny Thomas), on the ABC/CBS situation comedy Make Room for Daddy (later retitled The Danny Thomas Show), from 1953 to 1964.
Jan 19, 1990 · Rusty Hamer, the child actor in Danny Thomas' popular 1950s and '60s television series ``Make Room for Daddy,' has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 42.
A deadpan, freckle-faced, curly red-haired, highly talented child actor of the late 50s, Rusty Hamer entered films and TV at age 5 and became a precocious TV celebrity the very next year, trading clever quips with volatile top comedian Danny Thomas as his smart-alecky son, Rusty Williams, on the hit sitcom, The Danny Thomas Show (1953), in 1953.
Jul 2, 2019 · Even though Rusty Hamer showed signs of unhappiness in his early twenties, no one could predict the tragic turn the former child star’s life took after the series “Make Room for Daddy” ended in 1971.
Jan 20, 1990 · Rusty Hamer, the precocious young star of television’s legendary “Make Room for Daddy” series and a talent Danny Thomas called “the best boy actor I ever saw in my life,” has killed...
Jan 20, 1990 · Rusty Hamer, a child actor in the television series ''Make Room for Daddy'' in the 1950's and 60's, was found dead of a gunshot wound in his home on Thursday. He was 42 years old.
Jun 6, 2024 · Rusty Hamer, the child actor in the television series "Make Room for Daddy" in the 1950s and '60s, has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, his brother said.
