Philip Baker Hall

Philip Baker Hall

Birthday: 1931-09-10

Place of Birth: Toledo, Ohio, USA

Biography: Philip Baker Hall (September 10, 1931 – June 12, 2022) was an American actor. Although known primarily as a prolific character actor, he starred in leading roles on films, such as Secret Honor, Hard Eight and Duck. Other films in supporting roles including Say Anything..., Boogie Nights, The Truman Show, Magnolia, The Contender, Zodiac and Argo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Baker Hall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Bruce Almighty
Bruce Almighty

Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high rat...

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Magnolia
Magnolia

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famo...

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The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nob...

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Dogville
Dogville

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo...

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Rush Hour
Rush Hour

When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't...

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The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horror

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbab...

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The Shaggy Dog
The Shaggy Dog

The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most im...

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In Good Company
In Good Company

Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corpora...

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Lost Souls
Lost Souls

A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To ...

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Throw Out the Anchor
Throw Out the Anchor

A comedy about an unemployed widower who heads to Florida with his children for a vacation on a hous...

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Rules of Engagement
Rules of Engagement

A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surroun...

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The Sum of All Fears
The Sum of All Fears

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him....

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Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic po...

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Rush Hour 3
Rush Hour 3

After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to r...

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Path to War
Path to War

A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at...

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The Bastard
The Bastard

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to Engla...

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Hard Eight
Hard Eight

A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular....

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You Kill Me
You Kill Me

While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might ju...

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The Insider
The Insider

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Mi...

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A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a r...

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The Matador
The Matador

The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory...

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Three O'Clock High
Three O'Clock High

Nerdy high schooler Jerry Mitchell is assigned to write an article for the school paper about the in...

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How I Got Into College
How I Got Into College

High school senior Marlon Bowne is smitten with overachieving classmate Jessica Kailo. But, if he wa...

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50/50
50/50

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis ...

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Nothing in Common
Nothing in Common

A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents e...

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The Lodger
The Lodger

Follows a seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes al...

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Without Warning
Without Warning

A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the Unit...

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Judas Kiss
Judas Kiss

The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a ...

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Die, Mommie, Die!
Die, Mommie, Die!

Angela Arden is a washed up, has-been singing star who is trapped in a hateful marriage to film prod...

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Bending The Rules
Bending The Rules

Detective Nick Blades is a New Orleans cop on trial for corruption. Assistant District Attorney Theo...

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All Good Things
All Good Things

Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and ...

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The Man with Bogart's Face
The Man with Bogart's Face

In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much t...

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Coma
Coma

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up...

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M.A.N.T.I.S.
M.A.N.T.I.S.

A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augme...

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Fired Up!
Fired Up!

Popular high schoolers and best friends Shawn and Nick decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader...

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Hit Me
Hit Me

A bellhop living with his mentally impaired brother becomes involved with an unbalanced woman and a ...

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The TV Set
The TV Set

As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his ...

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A Gentleman's Game
A Gentleman's Game

A drama revolving around characters whose lives are transformed one summer at an exclusive East Coas...

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Secret Honor
Secret Honor

In his New Jersey study, Richard Nixon retraces the missteps of his political career, attempting to ...

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Stormy Weathers
Stormy Weathers

Shepherd is the detective hired by an aristocratic Italian to locate a relative and thereby solve an...

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Blue Desert
Blue Desert

After surviving rape, comic-book artist Lisa Roberts moves from New York City to small town in Arizo...

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Let the Devil Wear Black
Let the Devil Wear Black

A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murd...

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Mr. Popper's Penguins
Mr. Popper's Penguins

Tom Popper is a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things i...

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The Last Reunion
The Last Reunion

Several members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also rape an...

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Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters II

The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff...

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Cigarettes & Coffee
Cigarettes & Coffee

At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Sh...

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The Hostage Heart
The Hostage Heart

When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to ...

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Dog Eat Dog
Dog Eat Dog

When Oliver becomes obsessed with a dog at the pound, he finds himself in a desperate rivalry with a...

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Argo
Argo

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky ...

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Clear History
Clear History

Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business...

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The Chicago 8
The Chicago 8

Based on actual court transcripts of 8 anti-war protesters on trial for conspiring to cause riots at...

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Implicated
Implicated

In this offbeat thriller, Ann is a young woman trying to put her life back together after she lost h...

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Bad Words
Bad Words

Forty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby, enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loop...

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Dream on!
Dream on!

Dream On! takes real risks with cinema as form...manifesting a kind of narrative-collage. The film's...

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The Night the Bridge Fell Down
The Night the Bridge Fell Down

A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only...

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Eye for an Eye
Eye for an Eye

It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a...

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Showing Up
Showing Up

An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists in...

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This House Possessed
This House Possessed

A sinister force permeating a secluded mountain estate convinces the nurse/companion of rock star Pa...

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Kiss of Death
Kiss of Death

Jimmy Kilmartin's an ex-con who's trying to go straight. But he can't say no to a quick driving job ...

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The Spirit
The Spirit

A legally dead police detective decides to battle crime as a masked superhero....

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Say Anything...
Say Anything...

Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty ...

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Kill Me If You Can
Kill Me If You Can

The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before fi...

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Psycho
Psycho

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own....

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The Little Death
The Little Death

A photographer obsessed with a wealthy man's beautiful wife kills her jealous husband in self-defens...

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Terror Out of the Sky
Terror Out of the Sky

TV sequel to "The Savage Bees" featuring more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a sch...

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The Contender
The Contender

The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contes...

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Altman
Altman

Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema lef...

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Mrs. Harris
Mrs. Harris

Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly ...

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Witness to the Mob
Witness to the Mob

Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, includ...

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Zodiac
Zodiac

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders...

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Midnight Run
Midnight Run

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter,...

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Games Mother Never Taught You
Games Mother Never Taught You

Hard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is disma...

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Playing It Cool
Playing It Cool

A young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman....

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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy a...

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Sour Grapes
Sour Grapes

The bond between cousins is tested when one wins a fortune with the other's money at Atlantic City....

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Duck
Duck

An aging widower and a duck encounter helpful and hostile characters as they search for a place and ...

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Cradle Will Rock
Cradle Will Rock

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attem...

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Person to Person
Person to Person

Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected prob...

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The Last Word
The Last Word

A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obit...

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Air Force One
Air Force One

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircra...

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People Like Us
People Like Us

After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man ...

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Love-In '72
Love-In '72

A man must decide whether to flee the U.S. draft and go to Canada or stay or go fight for his countr...

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Psycho Path
Psycho Path

Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."...

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Goddess of Love
Goddess of Love

The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love....

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A House on a Hill
A House on a Hill

A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead ...

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Roswell
Roswell

Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the att...

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Who Is Julia?
Who Is Julia?

A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. ...

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Live Wire
Live Wire

Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invis...

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Incident at Dark River
Incident at Dark River

When Tim McFall's young daughter dies as the result of toxic waste dumped in the local river, he tri...

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The Truman Show
The Truman Show

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show...

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The Last Survivors
The Last Survivors

When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboa...

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Zabriskie Point
Zabriskie Point

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles de...

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Islander
Islander

After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishin...

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Samurai
Samurai

Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles...

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That Moment: Magnolia Diary
That Moment: Magnolia Diary

A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through ...

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Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232
Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232

Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an em...

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Tempting Fate
Tempting Fate

Ben Creed, a doctor still mourning the death of his love, meets a man who's created a machine that c...

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Dear Chickens
Dear Chickens

When a stubborn old man and a fretful teenaged girl are forced to share a hospital room, an unexpect...

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The Zodiac
The Zodiac

An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, whi...

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A Buck's Worth
A Buck's Worth

Gun in hand, a homeless man requests a dollar....

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Wonderful World
Wonderful World

Ben Singer is a failed children's folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary weeke...

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Buddy
Buddy

An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son....

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The Rock
The Rock

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch mi...

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An Innocent Man
An Innocent Man

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wr...

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Enemy of the State
Enemy of the State

When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer a...

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Mayday at 40,000 Feet
Mayday at 40,000 Feet

The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onb...

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Altman on His Own Terms
Altman on His Own Terms

A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. T...

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