“In the film business, if you look a certain way, you’re a leading man,” says Harry Hamlin. Yet, despite the veteran actor having the marbled profile of a star from Hollywood’s heyday, some may have a difficult time placing exactly where they know him from. Hamlin has had so many memorable, boundary-pushing roles in film and television that the brain short-circuits trying to sort through all of his credits at once.
Whether it be in his breakout role in 1981’s “Clash of the Titans,” his long-running arc on “L.A. Law,” or his maniacal turn on “Veronica Mars,” Hamlin is a standout whenever he’s onscreen. His latest scene-stealing role is in the AMC series “Mayfair Witches,” where he plays Cortland Mayfair, the patriarch of a long line of powerful sorcerers trying to survive in modern-day New Orleans.
