
Hal Holbrook
Born February 17, 1925 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor, television director, and writer. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show he developed, Mark Twain Tonight!, performing as Mark Twain, while studying at Denison University. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1966 for his portrayal of Twain. He would continue to perform his signature role for over 60 years, only retiring the show in 2017 due to his failing health. Throughout his career, he also won five Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on television and was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in film. Holbrook made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966). He later gained international fame for his performance as Deep Throat in the 1976 film All the President's Men. He played Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 miniseries Lincoln and 1985 miniseries North and South. He also appeared in such films as Julia (1977), The Fog (1980), Creepshow (1982), Wall Street (1987), The Firm (1993), Hercules (1997), and Men of Honor (2000). Holbrook's role as Ron Franz in Sean Penn's Into the Wild (2007) earned him both Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In 2009, Holbrook received critical acclaim for his performance as recently retired farmer Abner Meecham in the independent film That Evening Sun. He also portrayed Francis Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012). In 2003, Holbrook was honored with the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hal Holbrook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies

Hercules

Into the Wild

Planes: Fire & Rescue

Men of Honor

The Firm

Wall Street

Lincoln

Water for Elephants

Midway

Magnum Force

All the President's Men

The Fog

Cats Don't Dance

Promised Land

The Majestic

The Bachelor

Creepshow

Capricorn One

Shade

Killshot

Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire

The Star Chamber

Hush

Fletch Lives

Waking the Dead

Julia

Blackway

The Unholy

Judas Kiss

They Only Kill Their Masters

Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus

A Killing in a Small Town

The Brotherhood

When Hell Was in Session

The Group

The Killing of Randy Webster

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel

The Girl from Petrovka

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

The Great White Hope

Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
TV Shows

Saturday Night Live

Bones

Hawaii Five-0

The West Wing

The Sopranos

The Outer Limits

Sons of Anarchy

ER

The Merv Griffin Show

Great Performances

The Dick Cavett Show

American Experience

Tony Awards

The F.B.I.

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Dinah!

The Oscars

Family Law

The Ed Sullivan Show

Becker

Hope & Faith

North and South

Rectify

Designing Women

Evening Shade

Good Morning, Miami

The Event

The Wonderful World of Disney

Monday Mornings

The Bold Ones: The Senator

Lincoln

George Washington

The Awakening Land

Celebrity

The Fortunate Pilgrim

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

Emma: Queen of the South Seas

The Third Twin

Haven

Dress Gray

Founding Fathers

Mark Twain

The Seventh Day
More Movies

Wild in the Streets

A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry

Rusty: A Dog's Tale

The Business End: Violence in Cinema

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle

The Kidnapping of the President

Carried Away

A Clear and Present Danger

The Evolution of Clint Eastwood

Tartuffe

The Legend of the Golden Gun

The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry

The People Next Door

Operation Delta Force

Off the Minnesota Strip

Flying Lessons

All the Winters that Have Been

Murder by Natural Causes

Eye of God

Good Day for It

Girls Nite Out

Mark Twain

The Florentine

The Three Wishes of Billy Grier

I'll Be Home for Christmas

She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal

Dirty Harry: The Original

Innocent Victims

Suddenly Single

Under Siege

That Certain Summer

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat

That Evening Sun

Rituals

The Whole World Is Watching

The Time of Your Life

Savannah

Haven

The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City

Plaza Suite

Walking to the Waterline

Day One

My Own Country

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today

Natural Enemies

Stormchasers

Our Town

Bonds of Love

Pueblo

Goodbye, Raggedy Ann

Beauty

Purpose

An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story

The Legend of the Three Trees

The Battle of The Alamo

Mark Twain Tonight!

Butch Cassidy and the Outlaw Trail

92 Grosvenor Street

Battleships

Lost in Middle America (and What Happened Next)

Sorry, Wrong Number

Trail of Hope

The Glass Menagerie

Interpreting Twain




