Hal Holbrook

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1925-02-17

Died: 2021-01-23

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	The Group	Gus Leroy	56
2	1966	The Glass Menagerie	Tom Wingfield	64
3	1967	Mark Twain Tonight!	Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)	73
4	1968	Wild in the Streets	Senator Fergus	60
5	1968	The Brotherhood	Man at the Table (uncredited)	59
6	1969	The Whole World Is Watching	Chancellor Graham	0
7	1970	A Clear and Present Danger	Hays Stowe	0
8	1970	The People Next Door	David Hoffman	61
9	1970	The Great White Hope	Cameron	61
10	1970	The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City	Mitch Collins	60
11	1971	Travis Logan, D.A.	Matthew Sand	65
12	1971	Suddenly Single	Larry Hackett	10
13	1971	Goodbye, Raggedy Ann	Harlan Webb	0
14	1972	That Certain Summer	Doug Salter	69
15	1972	They Only Kill Their Masters	Dr. Warren G. Watkins	53
16	1973	Pueblo	Capt. Lloyd Bucher	57
17	1973	Jonathan Livingston Seagull	Elder (voice)	61
18	1973	The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today	Self	0
19	1973	Magnum Force	Lieutenant Briggs	71
20	1974	The Girl from Petrovka	Joe	52
21	1976	Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'	Self (archive footage)	20
22	1976	The Time of Your Life	Himself - Host	0
23	1976	All the President's Men	Deep Throat	77
24	1976	Midway	Cmdr. Joseph Rochefort	66
25	1977	Our Town	Stage manager	90
26	1977	Rituals	Harry	61
27	1977	Julia	Alan	65
28	1977	Capricorn One	Dr. James Kelloway	68
29	1978	Tartuffe	Self - Host	0
30	1979	Murder by Natural Causes	Arthur Sinclair	69
31	1979	The Legend of the Golden Gun	J.R. Swackhammer	50
32	1979	When Hell Was in Session	Cmdr. Jeremiah A. Denton	70
33	1979	Natural Enemies	Paul Steward	62
34	1980	The Fog	Father Malone	67
35	1980	Off the Minnesota Strip	Bud Johansen	55
36	1980	The Kidnapping of the President	President Adam Scott	46
37	1981	The Killing of Randy Webster	John Webster	58
38	1982	Girls Nite Out	Jim MacVey	46
39	1982	Creepshow	Henry Northrup (segment "The Crate")	69
40	1983	The Star Chamber	Benjamin Caulfield	60
41	1983	America Remembers John F. Kennedy	Host	0
42	1984	The Three Wishes of Billy Grier	Grandpa Grier	50
43	1985	92 Grosvenor Street		0
44	1986	Under Siege	President Maxwell Monroe	75
45	1987	Plaza Suite	Sam Nash	60
46	1987	Wall Street	Lou Mannheim	72
47	1988	Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel	Self	85
48	1988	The Unholy	Archbishop Mosely	52
49	1988	I'll Be Home for Christmas	Joseph Bundy	63
50	1989	Fletch Lives	Hamilton "Ham" Johnson	60
51	1989	Day One	Gen. George Marshall	63
52	1989	Sorry, Wrong Number	Jim Coltrane	43
53	1990	A Killing in a Small Town	Dr. Beardsley	52
54	1992	Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'	Narrator (voice)	0
55	1993	Bonds of Love	Jim Smith	53
56	1993	The Firm	Oliver Lambert	67
57	1994	Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle	William McKenzie	73
58	1994	Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor	Wild Bill McKenzie	67
59	1995	Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester	Wild Bill McKenzie	75
60	1995	She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal	Adm. Kelso	43
61	1995	Stormchasers	Narrator	60
62	1996	Innocent Victims	Bob Hennis	50
63	1996	Carried Away	Doctor Evans	55
64	1996	The Battle of The Alamo	Voice	0
65	1997	Operation Delta Force	Admiral Henshaw	37
66	1997	Cats Don't Dance	Cranston (voice)	72
67	1997	Hercules	Amphitryon (voice)	75
68	1997	Trail of Hope	Narrator	0
69	1997	All the Winters that Have Been	Uncle Ren Corvin	45
70	1997	Eye of God	Sheriff Rogers	58
71	1998	Beauty	Alexander Miller	48
72	1998	Hush	Dr. Franklin Hill	57
73	1998	Walking to the Waterline	Man on the Beach	45
74	1998	My Own Country	Lloyd Flanders	40
75	1998	Judas Kiss	Senator Rupert Hornbeck	57
76	1998	Rusty: A Dog's Tale	Boyd Callahan	58
77	1999	Lost in Middle America (and What Happened Next)	Narrator	0
78	1999	The Florentine	Smitty	51
79	1999	The Bachelor	O'Dell	52
80	1999	Battleships	Narrator	0
81	2000	Waking the Dead	Isaac Green	61
82	2000	Men of Honor	'Mr. Pappy'	75
83	2000	The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus	Ak - Master Woodsman of the World (voice)	65
84	2001	Haven	Harold L. Ickes	68
85	2001	The Legend of the Three Trees	Narrator	60
86	2001	Dirty Harry: The Original	Self - Actor	74
87	2001	The Majestic	Congressman Doyle	68
88	2002	Mark Twain	Self (uncredited)	70
89	2002	Purpose	Tom Walker	44
90	2002	Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'	Narrator (voice)	72
91	2003	The Street Lawyer	Arthur Jacobs	0
92	2003	Shade	The Professor	62
93	2003	The Designing Women Reunion		0
94	2006	Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat	Self - Narrator (voice)	60
95	2006	Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
96	2007	Into the Wild	Ronald "Ron" Franz	78
97	2008	The Business End: Violence in Cinema	Self	80
98	2008	The Evolution of Clint Eastwood	Self	70
99	2008	The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry	Self	58
100	2008	A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry	Self	45
101	2008	Killshot	Papa	58
102	2009	That Evening Sun	Abner Meecham	67
103	2010	Flying Lessons		56
104	2011	Good Day for It	Hec	55
105	2011	Water for Elephants	Old Jacob	69
106	2012	Promised Land	Frank Yates	63
107	2012	Lincoln	Preston Blair	69
108	2013	Savannah	Judge Harden	60
109	2013	Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story	Self	60
110	2014	Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey	Self	70
111	2014	Planes: Fire & Rescue	Mayday (voice)	62
112	2015	Blackway	Whizzer	53
113	2017	An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story	Reinhold Niebuhr (voice)	0
114	2018	Interpreting Twain	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Mitch Collins	78
3	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
4	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
5	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
6	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
7	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
8	1965	The F.B.I.	Christopher Simes	55
9	1966	CBS Playhouse		70
10	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
11	1968	The Name of the Game	John Adrian	68
12	1970	The Bold Ones: The Senator	Senator Hays Stowe	30
13	1971	Great Performances	Self - Host	53
14	1971	Appointment With Destiny	Narrator	0
15	1974	Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	80
16	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
17	1978	The Awakening Land	Portius Wheeler - The Solitary	72
18	1984	Celebrity	Calvin Sledge	60
19	1984	George Washington	John Adams	74
20	1985	North and South	Abraham Lincoln	74
21	1986	Dress Gray	Gen. Charles Hedges	54
22	1986	Designing Women	Reese Watson	67
23	1988	The Fortunate Pilgrim	Dr. Andrew McKay	50
24	1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)	74
25	1988	Emma: Queen of the South Seas	Jonas Coe	5
26	1990	Evening Shade	Evan Evans	56
27	1994	ER	Walter Perkins	78
28	1995	The Outer Limits	Justice Oliver Harbison	77
29	1997	Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery	Narrator (voice)	74
30	1997	The Third Twin	Pete	51
31	1998	Becker	Mr. Humphries	72
32	1999	The Sopranos	John Schwinn	87
33	1999	Family Law	Judge Richard Lloyd	82
34	1999	The West Wing	Albie Duncan	83
35	2000	Founding Fathers	Benjamin Franklin (voice)	0
36	2002	Mark Twain	self	0
37	2002	Good Morning, Miami	Jim Templeton	67
38	2003	Hope & Faith	Edward Shanowski	54
39	2003	NCIS	Mickey Stokes	76
40	2005	Grey's Anatomy	Lewis Clatch	82
41	2005	The Seventh Day	Host	0
42	2005	Bones	Red Hudmore	82
43	2008	Sons of Anarchy	Nate Madock	84
44	2010	The Event	James Dempsey (voice)	64
45	2010	The Event	James Dempsey	64
46	2010	Hawaii Five-0	Leonard Patterson	78
47	2013	Monday Mornings	Dr. Arvin Wayne	71
48	2013	Rectify	Rutherford Gaines	75

Hal Holbrook

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