Hal Holbrook
Acting • Born 1925-02-17 – Died 2021-01-23
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.
Filmography
166 credits
All the President's Men
Movie • 1976
Deep Throat
The Battle of The Alamo
Movie • 1996
Voice
The Fog
Movie • 1980
Father Malone
Magnum Force
Movie • 1973
Lieutenant Briggs
The Bachelor
Movie • 1999
O'Dell
Wall Street
Movie • 1987
Lou Mannheim
The Majestic
Movie • 2001
Congressman Doyle
Into the Wild
Movie • 2007
Ronald "Ron" Franz
Midway
Movie • 1976
Cmdr. Joseph Rochefort
Stormchasers
Movie • 1995
Narrator
The Brotherhood
Movie • 1968
Man at the Table (uncredited)
Capricorn One
Movie • 1977
Dr. James Kelloway
Hercules
Movie • 1997
Amphitryon (voice)
The Star Chamber
Movie • 1983
Benjamin Caulfield
That Evening Sun
Movie • 2009
Abner Meecham
Julia
Movie • 1977
Alan
Carried Away
Movie • 1996
Doctor Evans
Fletch Lives
Movie • 1989
Hamilton "Ham" Johnson
Wild in the Streets
Movie • 1968
Senator Fergus
The Firm
Movie • 1993
Oliver Lambert
Judas Kiss
Movie • 1998
Senator Rupert Hornbeck
Waking the Dead
Movie • 2000
Isaac Green
Good Day for It
Movie • 2011
Hec
Trail of Hope
Movie • 1997
Narrator
They Only Kill Their Masters
Movie • 1972
Dr. Warren G. Watkins
Day One
Movie • 1989
Gen. George Marshall
Eye of God
Movie • 1997
Sheriff Rogers
The Girl from Petrovka
Movie • 1974
Joe
Killshot
Movie • 2008
Papa
Creepshow
Movie • 1982
Henry Northrup (segment "The Crate")
The Whole World Is Watching
Movie • 1969
Chancellor Graham
Rituals
Movie • 1977
Harry
Hush
Movie • 1998
Dr. Franklin Hill
Flying Lessons
Movie • 2010
Harry Pleasant
Mark Twain Tonight!
Movie • 1967
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Purpose
Movie • 2002
Tom Walker
Lincoln
Movie • 2012
Preston Blair
The Street Lawyer
Movie • 2003
Arthur Jacobs
Water for Elephants
Movie • 2011
Old Jacob
The Unholy
Movie • 1988
Archbishop Mosely
Girls Nite Out
Movie • 1982
Jim MacVey
The Killing of Randy Webster
Movie • 1981
John Webster
Natural Enemies
Movie • 1979
Paul Steward
The People Next Door
Movie • 1970
David Hoffman
Rusty: A Dog's Tale
Movie • 1998
Boyd Callahan
The Kidnapping of the President
Movie • 1980
President Adam Scott
The Florentine
Movie • 1999
Smitty
Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
Movie • 2006
Self - Narrator (voice)
That Certain Summer
Movie • 1972
Doug Salter
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
Movie • 2006
Self - Narrator (voice)
Haven
Movie • 2001
Harold L. Ickes
Mark Twain
Movie • 2002
Self (uncredited)
My Own Country
Movie • 1998
Lloyd Flanders
Promised Land
Movie • 2012
Frank Yates
The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
Movie • 2000
Ak - Master Woodsman of the World (voice)
Our Town
Movie • 1977
Stage manager
Off the Minnesota Strip
Movie • 1980
Bud Johansen
Savannah
Movie • 2013
Judge Harden
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
Movie • 2013
Self
Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
Movie • 1994
Wild Bill McKenzie
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
Movie • 1995
Wild Bill McKenzie
Suddenly Single
Movie • 1971
Larry Hackett
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
Movie • 1994
William McKenzie
Murder by Natural Causes
Movie • 1979
Arthur Sinclair
Pueblo
Movie • 1973
Capt. Lloyd Bucher
The Legend of the Three Trees
Movie • 2001
Narrator
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
Movie • 2014
Self
Sorry, Wrong Number
Movie • 1989
Jim Coltrane
The Time of Your Life
Movie • 1976
Self - Host
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Movie • 2014
Mayday (voice)
Men of Honor
Movie • 2000
'Mr. Pappy'
Operation Delta Force
Movie • 1997
Admiral Henshaw
The Group
Movie • 1966
Gus Leroy
The Great White Hope
Movie • 1970
Cameron
The Legend of the Golden Gun
Movie • 1979
J.R. Swackhammer
Bonds of Love
Movie • 1993
Jim Smith
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Movie • 1988
Joseph Bundy
Under Siege
Movie • 1986
President Maxwell Monroe
The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
Movie • 1984
Grandpa Grier
Blackway
Movie • 2015
Whizzer
When Hell Was in Session
Movie • 1979
Cmdr. Jeremiah A. Denton
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
Movie • 1971
Harlan Webb
Interpreting Twain
Movie • 2018
Self
The Glass Menagerie
Movie • 1966
her son
The Designing Women Reunion
Movie • 2003
Lost in Middle America (and What Happened Next)
Movie • 1999
Narrator
Shade
Movie • 2003
The Professor
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
Movie • 1988
Self
Tartuffe
Movie • 1978
Self - Host
A Killing in a Small Town
Movie • 1990
Dr. Beardsley
All the Winters that Have Been
Movie • 1997
Uncle Ren Corvin
Travis Logan, D.A.
Movie • 1971
Matthew Sand
Cats Don't Dance
Movie • 1997
Cranston (voice)
92 Grosvenor Street
Movie • 1985
An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
Movie • 2017
Reinhold Niebuhr (voice)
Plaza Suite
Movie • 1987
Sam Nash
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
Movie • 2008
Self
The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
Movie • 1970
Mitch Collins
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
Movie • 2008
Self
Dirty Harry: The Original
Movie • 2001
Self - Actor
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
Movie • 2008
Self
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
Movie • 2008
Self
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Battleships
Movie • 1999
Narrator
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Movie • 1973
Elder (voice)
Beauty
Movie • 1998
Alexander Miller
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
Movie • 1995
Adm. Kelso
A Clear and Present Danger
Movie • 1970
Hays Stowe
America Remembers John F. Kennedy
Movie • 1983
Host
The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today
Movie • 1973
Self
Walking to the Waterline
Movie • 1998
Man on the Beach
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
Movie • 1992
Narrator (voice)
Innocent Victims
Movie • 1996
Bob Hennis
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
Movie • 1986
Self
Butch Cassidy and the Outlaw Trail
Movie • 2003
Narrator
Hazardous Waste: The Search for Solutions
Movie • 1983
Narrator (voice)
Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa
Movie • 1973
Narrator
Evening Shade
TV • 1990
Evan Evans
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Albie Duncan
Designing Women
TV • 1986
Reese Watson
Hope & Faith
TV • 2003
Edward Shanowski
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Christopher Simes
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
NCIS
TV • 2003
Mickey Stokes
ER
TV • 1994
Walter Perkins
Family Law
TV • 1999
Judge Richard Lloyd
CBS Playhouse
TV • 1966
The Bold Ones: The Senator
TV • 1970
Senator Hays Stowe
George Washington
TV • 1984
John Adams
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Justice Oliver Harbison
North and South
TV • 1985
Abraham Lincoln
Appointment With Destiny
TV • 1971
Narrator
Sons of Anarchy
TV • 2008
Nate Madock
The Awakening Land
TV • 1978
Portius Wheeler - The Solitary
Mark Twain
TV • 2002
self
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
TV • 1997
Narrator (voice)
Rectify
TV • 2013
Rutherford Gaines
The Third Twin
TV • 1997
Pete
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
American Experience
TV • 1988
Narrator (voice)
Celebrity
TV • 1984
Calvin Sledge
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
John Adrian
Dress Gray
TV • 1986
Gen. Charles Hedges
The Sopranos
TV • 1999
John Schwinn
Becker
TV • 1998
Mr. Humphries
The Event
TV • 2010
James Dempsey (voice)
The Event
TV • 2010
James Dempsey
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Mitch Collins
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
Hawaii Five-0
TV • 2010
Leonard Patterson
Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Lewis Clatch
Emma: Queen of the South Seas
TV • 1988
Jonas Coe
Monday Mornings
TV • 2013
Dr. Arvin Wayne
Founding Fathers
TV • 2000
Benjamin Franklin (voice)
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Bones
TV • 2005
Red Hudmore
The Seventh Day
TV • 2005
Host
Good Morning, Miami
TV • 2002
Jim Templeton
The Fortunate Pilgrim
TV • 1988
Dr. Andrew McKay
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self - Host
Lincoln
TV • 1974
Abraham Lincoln
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self (uncredited)
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self