Cast
Hal Holbrook
Acting
Cast
Hal Holbrook
Known for
Acting
Born
1925-02-17
From
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Died
2021-01-23
Also known as Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Harold Rowe Holbrook
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.
★7.5
MOVIE1997
Hercules
as Amphitryon (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1980
The Fog
as Father Malone
★7.7
MOVIE1976
All the President's Men
as Deep Throat
★7.8
MOVIE2007
Into the Wild
as Ronald "Ron" Franz
★6.8
MOVIE2012
Lincoln
as Preston Blair
★6.7
MOVIE1993
The Firm
as Oliver Lambert
★7.5
MOVIE2000
Men of Honor
as 'Mr. Pappy'
★6.2
MOVIE2014
Planes: Fire & Rescue
as Mayday (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE2011
Water for Elephants
as Old Jacob
★6.6
MOVIE1976
Midway
as Cmdr. Joseph Rochefort
★7.2
MOVIE1987
Wall Street
as Lou Mannheim
★7.1
MOVIE1973
Magnum Force
as Lieutenant Briggs
★6.2
MOVIE2003
Shade
as The Professor
★6.3
MOVIE2012
Promised Land
as Frank Yates
★5.4
MOVIE1988
The Unholy
as Archbishop Mosely
★6.9
MOVIE1982
Creepshow
as Henry Northrup (segment "The Crate")
★6.8
MOVIE2001
The Majestic
as Congressman Doyle
★5.2
MOVIE1999
The Bachelor
as O'Dell
★7.2
MOVIE1997
Cats Don't Dance
as Cranston (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1977
Capricorn One
as Dr. James Kelloway
★5.7
MOVIE1998
Hush
as Dr. Franklin Hill
★5.8
MOVIE2008
Killshot
as Papa
★6.5
MOVIE1995
Stormchasers
as Narrator
★6.1
MOVIE1968
The Brotherhood
as Man at the Table (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE2000
Waking the Dead
as Isaac Green
★6.0
MOVIE1989
Fletch Lives
as Hamilton "Ham" Johnson
★5.3
MOVIE2015
Blackway
as Whizzer
★6.0
MOVIE1983
The Star Chamber
as Benjamin Caulfield
★4.7
MOVIE1982
Girls Nite Out
as Jim MacVey
★6.1
MOVIE1973
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
as Elder (voice)
★5.7
MOVIE1998
Judas Kiss
as Senator Rupert Hornbeck
★6.5
MOVIE1977
Julia
as Alan
★5.3
MOVIE1974
The Girl from Petrovka
as Joe
★5.1
MOVIE1972
They Only Kill Their Masters
as Dr. Warren G. Watkins
★5.7
MOVIE1999
The Florentine
as Smitty
★3.8
MOVIE1997
Operation Delta Force
as Admiral Henshaw
★5.8
MOVIE1996
Carried Away
as Doctor Evans
★7.1
MOVIE2000
The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
as Ak - Master Woodsman of the World (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1987
Plaza Suite
as Sam Nash
★5.7
MOVIE1966
The Group
as Gus Leroy
★6.8
MOVIE2001
Haven
as Harold L. Ickes
★5.8
MOVIE1998
Rusty: A Dog's Tale
as Boyd Callahan
★7.3
MOVIE2001
Dirty Harry: The Original
as Self - Actor
★6.3
MOVIE1970
The Great White Hope
as Cameron
★6.7
MOVIE2009
That Evening Sun
as Abner Meecham
★5.9
MOVIE1970
The People Next Door
as David Hoffman
★5.6
MOVIE2010
Flying Lessons
as Harry Pleasant
★7.1
MOVIE2002
Mark Twain
as Self (uncredited)
★4.6
MOVIE1980
The Kidnapping of the President
as President Adam Scott
★4.5
MOVIE1998
My Own Country
as Lloyd Flanders
★5.1
MOVIE1990
A Killing in a Small Town
as Dr. Beardsley
★6.1
MOVIE1977
Rituals
as Harry
★6.0
MOVIE1981
The Killing of Randy Webster
as John Webster
★6.6
MOVIE1972
That Certain Summer
as Doug Salter
★5.8
MOVIE1968
Wild in the Streets
as Senator Fergus
★7.0
MOVIE2003
The Street Lawyer
as Arthur Jacobs
★6.0
MOVIE1979
Natural Enemies
as Paul Steward
★9.0
MOVIE1997
Trail of Hope
as Narrator
MOVIE1971
Goodbye, Raggedy Ann
as Harlan Webb
★5.5
MOVIE2011
Good Day for It
as Hec
★5.8
MOVIE1997
Eye of God
as Sheriff Rogers
MOVIE1973
Jane Goodall and the World of Animal Behavior: The Wild Dogs of Africa
as Narrator
★4.9
MOVIE2002
Purpose
as Tom Walker
★6.1
MOVIE2013
Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE1967
Mark Twain Tonight!
as Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
★7.0
MOVIE1978
Tartuffe
as Self - Host
★7.0
MOVIE1996
Innocent Victims
as Bob Hennis
★6.2
MOVIE2013
Savannah
as Judge Harden
★7.0
MOVIE1979
When Hell Was in Session
as Cmdr. Jeremiah A. Denton
★5.8
MOVIE1993
Bonds of Love
as Jim Smith
MOVIE1992
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2003
The Designing Women Reunion
★7.0
MOVIE2008
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
as Self
★9.5
MOVIE1977
Our Town
as Stage manager
★10.0
MOVIE1976
The Time of Your Life
as Self - Host
★7.0
MOVIE1979
The Legend of the Golden Gun
as J.R. Swackhammer
★6.2
MOVIE1989
Day One
as Gen. George Marshall
★6.9
MOVIE1979
Murder by Natural Causes
as Arthur Sinclair
★8.0
MOVIE1996
The Battle of The Alamo
as Voice
★7.4
MOVIE2002
Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'
as Narrator (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE1986
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
as Self (uncredited)
MOVIE1999
Battleships
as Narrator
★7.5
MOVIE1986
Under Siege
as President Maxwell Monroe
★7.0
MOVIE2014
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1988
I'll Be Home for Christmas
as Joseph Bundy
★8.0
MOVIE1988
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1970
A Clear and Present Danger
as Hays Stowe
★6.5
MOVIE1973
Pueblo
as Capt. Lloyd Bucher
★6.4
MOVIE1994
Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
as Wild Bill McKenzie
MOVIE2003
Butch Cassidy and the Outlaw Trail
as Narrator
★8.0
MOVIE2008
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
as Self
MOVIE1983
America Remembers John F. Kennedy
as Host
★7.5
MOVIE1994
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
as William McKenzie
★4.5
MOVIE2008
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE1980
Off the Minnesota Strip
as Bud Johansen
★5.3
MOVIE1998
Beauty
as Alexander Miller
★9.0
MOVIE1985
92 Grosvenor Street
★6.3
MOVIE1998
Walking to the Waterline
as Man on the Beach
★5.0
MOVIE1984
The Three Wishes of Billy Grier
as Grandpa Grier
★5.3
MOVIE1989
Sorry, Wrong Number
as Jim Coltrane
★6.8
MOVIE1997
All the Winters that Have Been
as Uncle Ren Corvin
★6.5
MOVIE1970
The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
as Mitch Collins
★5.8
MOVIE2008
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE1966
The Glass Menagerie
as her son
★7.4
MOVIE1995
Perry Mason: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
as Wild Bill McKenzie
★6.7
MOVIE2001
The Legend of the Three Trees
as Narrator
★9.0
MOVIE1969
The Whole World Is Watching
as Chancellor Graham
MOVIE2006
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2017
An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
as Reinhold Niebuhr (voice)
★4.5
MOVIE1971
Suddenly Single
as Larry Hackett
★7.3
MOVIE1971
Travis Logan, D.A.
as Matthew Sand
★7.0
MOVIE1973
The Hero Cop: Yesterday and Today
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2006
Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2018
Interpreting Twain
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE1995
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal
as Adm. Kelso
MOVIE1983
Hazardous Waste: The Search for Solutions
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1999
Lost in Middle America (and What Happened Next)
as Narrator