Hal Holbrook

Acting · 2.0 popularity

Age

101

Movies

117

Born: February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Biography

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.

Works

117 films

Hercules

19977.5

The Firm

19936.7

Into the Wild

20077.8

Planes: Fire & Rescue

20146.2

The Fog

19806.7

Lincoln

20126.8

Men of Honor

20007.5

Wall Street

19877.2

All the President's Men

19767.7

Creepshow

19826.9

The Majestic

20016.8

Magnum Force

19737.1

Midway

19766.6

The Bachelor

19995.2

Water for Elephants

20116.9

Capricorn One

19776.8

Shade

20036.2

Cats Don't Dance

19977.2

Promised Land

20126.3

Killshot

20085.8

Blackway

20155.3

The Unholy

19885.4

Fletch Lives

19896.0

Judas Kiss

19985.7

Waking the Dead

20006.1

The Star Chamber

19836.0

Hush

19985.7

Julia

19776.5

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

19736.1

Carried Away

19965.8

Tartuffe

19787.0

The Florentine

19995.7

The Street Lawyer

20037.0

Stormchasers

19956.5

The Brotherhood

19686.1

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

20136.1

The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City

19706.5

Girls Nite Out

19824.7

The Group

19665.7

Operation Delta Force

19973.8

The Evolution of Clint Eastwood

20087.0

Day One

19896.2

The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus

20007.1

The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry

20085.8

A Killing in a Small Town

19905.1

The Three Wishes of Billy Grier

19845.0

Goodbye, Raggedy Ann

1971

The Legend of the Golden Gun

19797.0

The Great White Hope

19706.3

All the Winters that Have Been

19976.8

Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester

19957.4

Murder by Natural Causes

19796.9

When Hell Was in Session

19797.0

The Girl from Petrovka

19745.3

Eye of God

19975.8

That Evening Sun

20096.7

They Only Kill Their Masters

19725.1

Mark Twain

20027.1

Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa

1973

Plaza Suite

19878.0

Rusty: A Dog's Tale

19985.8

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle

19947.5

The Kidnapping of the President

19804.6

A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry

20084.5

Haven

20016.8

The People Next Door

19705.9

Trail of Hope

19979.0

The Business End: Violence in Cinema

20088.0

Dirty Harry: The Original

20017.3

All Star Party for Clint Eastwood

19866.0

That Certain Summer

19726.6

I'll Be Home for Christmas

19887.0

Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor

19946.4

A Clear and Present Danger

19707.0

Good Day for It

20115.5

The Whole World Is Watching

19699.0

Wild in the Streets

19685.8

Flying Lessons

20105.6

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

1992

Savannah

20136.1

Pueblo

19736.5

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

20147.0

America Remembers John F. Kennedy

1983

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

20027.4

Under Siege

19867.5

Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire

2006

The Killing of Randy Webster

19816.0

Rituals

19776.0

Battleships

1999

She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal

19955.0

The Battle of The Alamo

19968.0

Bonds of Love

19935.8

Purpose

20024.9

Off the Minnesota Strip

19805.5

The Designing Women Reunion

2003

Natural Enemies

19796.0

Suddenly Single

19714.5

My Own Country

19984.5

Mark Twain Tonight!

19677.5

Innocent Victims

19967.0

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

19888.0

Sorry, Wrong Number

19895.3

The Time of Your Life

197610.0

Beauty

19985.3

92 Grosvenor Street

19859.0

Butch Cassidy and the Outlaw Trail

2003

Walking to the Waterline

19986.3

Our Town

19779.5

The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today

19737.0

Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat

20066.0

The Glass Menagerie

19666.7

An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story

2017

The Legend of the Three Trees

20016.7

Travis Logan, D.A.

19717.3

Interpreting Twain

2018

Hazardous Waste: The Search for Solutions

1983

Lost in Middle America (and What Happened Next)

1999