Hal Holbrook
Birthday: 1925-02-17
Place of Birth: 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.
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All the President's Men
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The Fog
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The Bachelor
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Into the Wild
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That Evening Sun
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Julia
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The Firm
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Trail of Hope
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Killshot
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Flying Lessons
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Mark Twain Tonight!
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Purpose
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Lincoln
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The Street Lawyer
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Water for Elephants
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Girls Nite Out
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The Killing of Randy Webster
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Natural Enemies
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The People Next Door
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Rusty: A Dog's Tale
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The Kidnapping of the President
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The Florentine
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Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
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That Certain Summer
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Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
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Haven
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Mark Twain
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My Own Country
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Promised Land
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Off the Minnesota Strip
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Savannah
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
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Suddenly Single
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
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Murder by Natural Causes
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Pueblo
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The Legend of the Three Trees
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Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
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Men of Honor
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Operation Delta Force
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The Group
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The Great White Hope
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The Legend of the Golden Gun
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Bonds of Love
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Under Siege
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The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
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Blackway
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When Hell Was in Session
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Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
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Interpreting Twain
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The Glass Menagerie
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The Designing Women Reunion
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Lost in Middle America (and What Happened Next)
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Shade
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Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
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Tartuffe
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A Killing in a Small Town
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All the Winters that Have Been
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Travis Logan, D.A.
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Cats Don't Dance
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92 Grosvenor Street
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An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
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Plaza Suite
Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza....
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The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
An in-depth look at Dirty Harry (1971), featuring interviews with such film artists as Michael Madse...
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The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
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A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
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Dirty Harry: The Original
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The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
Follow Eastwood's career from television star to matinee idol to Oscar-winning director in this wide...
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The Business End: Violence in Cinema
An unflinching look at the ongoing debate on violence in movies and its effect on the audience....
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Battleships
Hal Holbrook narrates this documentary chronicling the history of the battleship. Famous historical ...
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Beauty
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She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
A dramatized account of a female US Naval officer's ordeal of being sexually harassed at a Naval con...
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A Clear and Present Danger
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America Remembers John F. Kennedy
A documentary on the life of John F. Kennedy, including home movies of the Kennedy family and recoll...
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Walking to the Waterline
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Innocent Victims
Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force capta...
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Butch Cassidy and the Outlaw Trail
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Hazardous Waste: The Search for Solutions
This shortened television documentary focuses on five states where citizen involvement has positivel...
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