“Portrait of America” Alaska episode (1989)
He also earned an Emmy nomination in 1972 for “That Certain Summer. Over the years, he was also regular on the TV series “Designing Women (which starred his third wife, Dixie Carter), and ``Evening Shade, starring Burt Reynolds.
In 1974, he played ``Deep Throat in ``All The President s Men, portraying the shadowy informant who guided Robert Redford s Bob Woodward and Dustin Hoffman s Carl Bernstein playing Washington Post reporters closer to exposing the Watergate scandal.
Among Holbrook s other film credits were ``The Group (1966), ``Wild in the Streets, (1968), ``Magnum Force, (1973), ``Capricorn One (1977), ``Julia (1977), ``The Star Chamber (1983), ``Wall Street (1987), ``The Firm (1993) and ``The Majestic (2001).
Esteemed US actor Hal Holbrook, best known for
All the President’s Men, and playing Mark Twain, has died, aged 95.
Holbrook died on January 23 in Beverly Hills, his personal assistant, Joyce Cohen, told The New York Times.
Holbrook’s career spanned over 60 years and saw him portray
Lincoln in the miniseries of the same name and also in the 1980s TV hits
North & South and
He won four
The Bold Ones: The Senator. Amongst many TV credits were
George Washington, The West Wing, That Certain Summer, Designing Women, Evening Shade, The Sopranos, Our Town, Sons of Anarchy and The Event.
Hal Holbrook, who carved out a substantial acting career in television and film but who achieved his widest acclaim onstage, embodying Mark Twain in all his craggy splendour and vinegary wit in a one-man show seen around the world, died Jan. 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was 95.
His death was confirmed by his assistant, Joyce Cohen, on Monday night.
Holbrook had a long and fruitful run as an actor. He was the shadowy patriot Deep Throat in “All the President’s Men” (1976); an achingly grandfatherly character in “Into the Wild” (2007), for which he received an Oscar nomination; and the influential Republican Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (2012).
“George Washington.”
“If you know more about me than I do, what do you ask me for?”
The patients stared straight ahead “No one was looking at us,” Hal Holbrook wrote and guffawed at the laugh lines, proving that “the guys in the ward were saner than they looked” and that the material had legs.
The Twain piece became their most popular sketch over the next four years, as the couple crisscrossed the country performing for schoolchildren, ladies’ clubs, college students and Rotarians.
Hal Holbrook began developing his one-man show in 1952, the year Ruby Holbrook gave birth to their first child, Victoria. He soon looked the part, with a wig to match Twain’s unruly mop, a walrus moustache and a rumpled white linen suit, the kind Twain himself wore onstage. From his grandfather, Holbrook got an old penknife, which he used to cut the ends off the three cigars he smoked during a performance (though he was not sure whether Twain ever smoked onstage). He sought out
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