Hollywood legend George Hamilton has visited his native Memphis with his younger son after celebrating his 87th birthday.
The Home from the Hill actor, who turned 87 on August 12, shared an Instagram album documenting his trip to Tennessee alongside his son George Jr.
Hamilton returned to his hometown to attend Elvis Week at Graceland, an annual event that spanned August 8 through August 16 this year to commemorate the anniversary of Elvis Presley's death on August 16.
Posing with George Jr at the estate, Hamilton looked bronzed and dapper in a coat and pocket square, flashing a megawatt smile. "Thank you Memphis, always great to get back to my roots!" he wrote in the caption.
Hamilton shares George Jr, who was born in 2000, with his former girlfriend Kimberly Blackford, a swimsuit model. According to his Instagram, George Jr is based in Panama and is beginning a career restoring properties in Grenada and Nicaragua.
The actor also shared a throwback photograph from a trip to Palm Beach in the 1960s, during the height of his fame as a Hollywood matinee idol.
Elvis Week
During his visit to Graceland, Hamilton took part in an onstage interview on August 15, sharing anecdotes about Presley with the audience.
Hamilton explained that he became acquainted with the legendary singer through his close friendship with Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Prior to this trip, Hamilton's last visit to Graceland was to attend Presley's funeral alongside Parker in 1977.
In fan footage posted by the YouTube account EP Fanatic, Hamilton recalled Parker's demeanour at the funeral. "He was fighting to keep being business as usual. It wasn't happening, but he was trying," Hamilton said.
"And he said: 'Go in and say goodbye to Elvis,' and it was in the parlor, and he was holding on as best he could. It was the hardest I've ever seen. It was not the Colonel," Hamilton added. "He was shocked."
Manhattan birthday
Before heading to Memphis, Hamilton appeared to celebrate his actual birthday in Manhattan.
George Jr posted a photograph of them together at a restaurant, along with a video of his father blowing out a candle on a cake while surrounded by a group of loved ones.
The family outing comes after Hamilton maintained a public silence in April when his 51-year-old elder son, Ashley Hamilton, was hospitalized following an overdose.
Ashley, whose mother is Hamilton's ex-wife Alana Stewart, was reported by TMZ in April to be in stable condition and recovering in hospital.
Health struggles
Ashley, who was once married to actress Shannen Doherty, has been open about his history of addiction. He has previously said he attended 32 rehabs and was arrested half a dozen times by the age of 22.
He is also battling a rare mucosal HPV-related cancer, a diagnosis he made public last year during an interview on the Punk Rock Sober podcast.
In March, a Soft White Underbelly interview was released featuring Ashley speaking alongside a death doula. At the time of the conversation, he was still struggling with the cancer and noted that his nine-year-old daughter, Willow, did not know he was ill. He shares Willow with his ex-girlfriend Renee Karalian.
During the interview, Ashley said he had sent paperwork to a clinic in Switzerland that offers assisted suicide.
"What I don't wanna do is, I don't wanna die in a motel with a f***in' needle in my neck and leave that stain on my daughter and leave that stain on people around me," Ashley said. "That I don't wanna do. As easy as that would be for me to do, I don't wanna do that to people."
George Hamilton has previously spoken about his son's struggles. On the reality show Stewarts & Hamiltons a decade ago, he broke down in tears while talking to a then-sober Ashley.
"I am very proud of you," Hamilton told him. "There are about four times that we almost lost you in your life."
In a 2016 interview with People magazine promoting the series, Ashley said: "I had some really hard times. But my dad never gave up on me no matter what."
The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for George and Ashley Hamilton for comment.
