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Hal Holbrook
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. was an American actor. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show, titled Mark Twain Tonight!, that he developed while studying at Denison University. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1966 for his portrayal of Twain. He continued to perform his signature role for more than 60 years, retiring the show in 2017 due to his failing heal…
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entertainment · American actor (1925–2021) · character actor · stage actor · film actor · television actor · screenwriter · actor · director · also Hal Holbrook, Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr., Holbrook
Born 17 February 1925 · Died 23 January 2021 · Q314801
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2021· 5 entries
Yahoo: Celebrities, Filmmakers Remember Hal Holbrook: ‘We Lost Another Giant Today’
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New York Post: Hal Holbrook, famed Mark Twain and Deep Throat actor, dead at 95
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Decider: Hal Holbrook, Emmy and Tony Winner, Dies at 95
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Died 2021-01-23.
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2017· 1 entry
Appeared on an episode on Grey's Anatomy playing a retired thoracic surgeon whose wife is a patient, and on Hawaii Five-0 later in the year
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2016· 2 entries
Holbrook was cast as Red Hudmore and appeared in the final season of Bones on January 17, 2017
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Castigated then-Republican candidate Donald Trump for not having "the maturity to run the country"
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2014· 1 entry
Holbrook was the subject of Scott Teems' documentary Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey depicting Holbrook's long-lasting career portraying Twain
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2012· 1 entry
Steven Spielberg cast Holbrook to play Francis Preston Blair in Lincoln
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2011· 2 entries
Holbrook appeared in Water for Elephants
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Holbrook's memoir, Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2010· 1 entry
Aged 85, Holbrook signed on to portray Katey Sagal's character's father on the FX original series Sons of Anarchy for a four-episode arc in their third season, as well as appearing in additional fifth episode in the fina
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2009· 1 entry
Received critical acclaim for his performance as recently retired farmer Abner Meecham in the independent film That Evening Sun
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2003· 2 entries
Won National Humanities Medal (2003).
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Holbrook was honored with the National Humanities Medal by President George W
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2000· 1 entry
“The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus”
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1999· 1 entry
Holbrook was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame
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1997· 1 entry
“All the Winters That Have Been”
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1995· 2 entries
“A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester”
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“She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal”
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1994· 2 entries
“A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle”
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“A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor”
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1988· 1 entry
“Emma: Queen of the South Seas”
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1984· 2 entries
And the couple remained married until Carter's death from endometrial cancer on April 10, 2010
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“The Three Wishes of Billy Grier”
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1981· 1 entry
“The Killing of Randy Webster”
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1980· 1 entry
“The Kidnapping of the President”
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1979· 2 entries
Holbrook starred with Katharine Ross, Barry Bostwick, and Richard Anderson in the made-for-TV movie Murder by Natural Causes
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“The Legend of the Golden Gun”
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1977· 1 entry
Starred in the World War II film Julia, and the British-American thriller film Capricorn One
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1976· 1 entry
Holbrook won acclaim for his portrayal of the sixteenth U
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1973· 1 entry
Holbrook appeared as Lieutenant Neil Briggs, the boss and rival of Detective "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Magnum Force, an "obsessively neat and prim fanatic" who supports the obliteration of San Francisco'
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1972· 1 entry
“They Only Kill Their Masters”
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for The Bold Ones (1971).
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1968· 1 entry
Was one of the replacements for Richard Kiley in the original Broadway production of Man of La Mancha, although he had limited singing ability
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1966· 3 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (1966).
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Holbrook starred opposite Shirley Booth in the acclaimed CBS Playhouse production of The Glass Menagerie
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And again in 1977 and 2005; Holbrook was 80 years of age during his final Broadway run, older (for the first time) than the character he was portraying
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1964· 1 entry
Holbrook played the role of the Major in the original production of Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy
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1959· 1 entry
Holbrook first played the role off-Broadway
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1955· 1 entry
Where he began developing his one-man show
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1954· 1 entry
For a one-man stage show, titled Mark Twain Tonight
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1925· 2 entries
Born 1925-02-17.
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In Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Aileen (née Davenport) Holbrook (1905–1987), a vaudeville dancer, and Harold Rowe Holbrook Sr
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