Hamilton Johnson is the main badguy in the comedy Fletch Lives, the second in the Fletch series of films. He was played by Hal Holbrook. When Fletch finds out that he's inherited a plantation in Louisana, he heads there and soon his aunt's lawyer is killed and fingers are pointed at him as the only suspect. Desperate to make light of this, he disguises himself and investigates the townspeople. One of the townspeople is a television evangelist, Jimmy Lee Farnsworth, who's constructing a christian theme park and tries to talk Fletch into giving him his land. Fletch suspects that he might be the possible culprit, but investigates further. As he looks deeper, he discovers a chemical company is planning on dumping toxic waste on his land and the authorization is set in motion by Hamilton John