Hal Holbrook, prolific actor who played Deep Throat in All the President s Men, has died at 95
Updated on: February 2, 2021 / 2:40 PM / CBS/AP
Hal Holbrook, the award-winning character actor who toured the world for more than 50 years as Mark Twain in a one-man show and uttered the immortal advice Follow the money in the classic political thriller All the President s Men, has died. He was 95.
Hal Holbrook on March 16, 2015. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
Holbrook died on January 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, California, his publicist, Steve Rohr, told CBS News on Tuesday.
Actors across the spectrum mourned Holbrook s passing, including Bradley Whitford, who called him an incredible actor, and Viola Davis, who wrote RIP to the always wonderful Hal Holbrook.
Hal Holbrook, character actor noted for All the President’s Men and his Mark Twain one-man play – obituary
Of the Watergate source, Deep Throat, he reflected that he was ‘trapped . he would have to betray his president or betray the country’
2 February 2021 • 1:47pm
Holbrook portraying Mark Twain in Connecticut, August 1959
Credit: Robert W Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images
Hal Holbrook, the American character actor who has died aged 95, enjoyed a successful career in film, television and theatre embodying establishment figures, yet gained international renown playing a whistleblower.
In 1976 Holbook was at the end of a two-year stint, appearing as Abraham Lincoln in a highly rated TV mini-series, when he took the role of “Deep Throat” – the source who helped to bring down another President, Richard Nixon – in Alan J Pakula’s All the President’s Men.
FILE - Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter arrive at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File) FILE - Actor Hal Holbrook appears during an interview in his New York apartment on Feb. 8, 1973. Holbrook died on Jan. 23 in Beverly Hills, California, his representative, Steve Rohr, told The Associated Press Tuesday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Jerry Mosey, File)
FILE - Hal Holbrook greets patrons in stage make-up following his one-man performance of Mark Twain Tonight at the University of Texas at Tyler, Texas on Jan. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman, File)
Tuesday, February 2nd 2021, 3:28 pm
By: CBS News, Associated Press
Hal Holbrook, the award-winning character actor who toured the world for more than 50 years as Mark Twain in a one-man show and uttered the immortal advice Follow the money in the classic political thriller All the President s Men, has died. He was 95.
Holbrook died on January 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, California, his publicist, Steve Rohr, told CBS News on Tuesday.
Actors across the spectrum mourned Holbrook s passing, including Bradley Whitford, who called him an incredible actor, and Viola Davis, who wrote RIP to the always wonderful Hal Holbrook.
Holbrook pursued a busy career in theater, television and movies, winning five Emmys and a Tony. His more than two dozen film credits ranged from Steven Spielberg s Lincoln to Oliver Stone s Wall Street. He was a steady presence on TV as well, having appeared on such shows as The West Wing, Grey s Anatomy and Bones.