Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook
Date of Birth: February 17, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Birth Name:   Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr.

Height:    6' 1"
Hal Holbrook is an Emmy and Tony-Award winning actor who is one of
the great craftsman of stage and screen. He is best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy
Award nominations. Aside from the stage, Holbrook made his reputation primarily on television, and was memorable as Abraham Lincoln, as Senator Hays
Stowe on "The Bold Ones: The Senator" and as Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo. All of these roles brought him Emmy Awards, with Pueblo bringing him two,
as Best Lead Actor in a Drama and Actor of the Year - Special. On January 22, 2008, he became the oldest male performer ever nominated for a an
Academy Award, for his supporting turn in Into the Wild.
1954-1959 - "The Brighter Day" .... Grayling Dennis #1 (unknown episodes)
1955 - "Mr. Citizen" (1 episode)
1966 - The Glass Menagerie .... Tom Wingfield  
1966 - "Preview Tonight"  - The Cliff Dwellers (1 episode)
1966 - The Group  .... Gus Leroy
1967 - "Coronet Blue" .... Carey Thomas (1 episode)
1967 - Mark Twain Tonight! .... Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1968 - Wild in the Streets .... Sen. Johnny Fergus
1968 - "Off to See the Wizard" .... Narrator (1 episode)
1969 - "The Name of the Game" .... Mayor John Adrian (1 episode)
1969 - The Whole World Is Watching .... Chancellor Graham
1969 - "The F.B.I." .... Christopher Simes (1 episode)
1970 - The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City .... Mitch Collins
1970 - The Great White Hope .... Al Cameron
1970 - The People Next Door .... David Hoffman
1970 - A Clear and Present Danger .... Hays Stowe
1970-1971 - "The Bold Ones: The Senator" .... Senator Hays Stowe
1971 - Goodbye, Raggedy Ann .... Harlan Webb
1971 - Suddenly Single .... Larry Hackett
1971 - Travis Logan, D.A. .... Matthew Sand
1972 - They Only Kill Their Masters .... Dr. Warren Watkins, DVM
1972 - That Certain Summer .... Doug Salter
1972 - "Appointment with Destiny" .... Narrator (1 episode)
1973 - Magnum Force  .... Lt. Neil Briggs
1973 - Jonathan Livingston Seagull .... The Elder (voice)
1973 - Pueblo  .... Capt. Lloyd Bucher
1974 - "Lincoln" (6 episodes)
1974 - The Girl from Petrovka .... Joe
1975 - "Great Performances" .... Theater in America host (1 episode)
1976 - 33 Hours in the Life of God .... Dr. Simon Abbott
1976 - Midway .... Commander Joseph Rochefort
1976 - All the President's Men .... Deep Throat
1977 - Capricorn One .... Dr. James Kelloway
1977 - Julia .... Alan Campbell
1977 - Rituals .... Harry
1977 - Our Town .... Stage manager
1977 - Secret Service .... Host
1978 - "The Awakening Land" .... Portius Wheeler - The Solitary
1978 - Tartuffe .... Host
1979 - Natural Enemies .... Paul Steward
1979 - When Hell Was in Session .... Cmdr. Jeremiah A. Denton
1979 - The Legend of the Golden Gun .... J.R. Swackhammer
1979 - Murder by Natural Causes .... Arthur Sinclair
1980 - The Kidnapping of the President .... President Adam Scott
1980 - "Omnibus" .... Host (unknown episodes)
1980 - Off the Minnesota Strip .... Bud Johansen
1980 - The Fog .... Father Malone
1981 - The Killing of Randy Webster .... John Webster
1981 - Warlords: Rommel - The Strange Death of the Desert Fox ... Narrator
1982 - Creepshow .... Henry Northrup (segment "The Crate")
1983 - The Star Chamber .... Judge Benjamin Caulfield
1984 - The Three Wishes of Billy Grier .... Grandpa Grier
1984 - Girls Nite Out .... Jim MacVey
1984 - "George Washington" .... John Adams
1984 - "Celebrity" .... D.A. Calvin Sledge
1985 - Behind Enemy Lines .... Col. Calvin Turner
1985 - "North and South" .... Abraham Lincoln (6 episodes)
1986 - "North and South, Book II" .... Abraham Lincoln (6 episodes)
1986 - Dress Gray .... Gen. Charles Hedges
1986 - Under Siege .... President Maxwell Monroe
1986 - 1989 - "Designing Women" .... Reese Watson (10 episodes)
1987 - Wall Street .... Lou Mannheim
1987 - Plaza Suite .... Sam Nash
1988 - I'll Be Home for Christmas
1988 - "Emma: Queen of the South Seas" .... Jonas Coe
1988 - The Unholy .... Archbishop Mosely
1988 - "The Fortunate Pilgrim" .... Dr. Andrew McKaig
1989 - Sorry, Wrong Number .... Jim Coltrane
1989 - Fletch Lives .... Hamilton "Ham" Johnson
1989 - Day One .... Gen. George Marshall
1990 - A Killing in a Small Town .... Dr. Beardsley
1990-1994 - "Evening Shade" .... Evan Evans (79 episodes)
1993 - The Firm .... Oliver Lambert
1993 - Bonds of Love .... Jim Smith
1994 - A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
                                                                                          .... William McKenzie
1994 - A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
                                                                                          
.... Wild Bill McKenzie
1995 - She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal .... Adm. Kelso
1995 - A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
                                                                                          
.... Wild Bill McKenzie
1996 - America on Wheels .... Narrator
1996 - Carried Away .... Doctor Evans
1996 - The Battle of the Alamo .... Narrator
1996 - Innocent Victims .... Bob Hennis
1997 - The Third Twin .... Pete
1997 - Eye of God .... Sheriff Rogers
1997 - All the Winters That Have Been .... Uncle Ren Corvin
1997 - Operation Delta Force .... Henshaw
1997 - Hercules .... Amphitryon; Hercules Foster Father (voice)
1997 - Cats Don't Dance .... Cranston (voice)
1998 - Beauty .... Alexander Miller
1998 - Rusty: A Dog's Tale .... Boyd Callahan
1998 - Judas Kiss .... Senator Rupert Hornbeck
1998 - Walking to the Waterline .... Man on the Beach
1998 - "The Mighty Mississippi"  .... Host
1998 - Hush .... Dr. Franklin Hill
1998 - My Own Country .... Lloyd Flanders
1999 - The Bachelor .... Roy O'Dell
1999 - The Florentine .... Smitty
1999 - A Place Apart .... Narrator
2000 - The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
                                                     .... Ak, Master Woodsman of the World (voice)
2000 - "Family Law" .... Judge Richard Lloyd (1 episode)
2000 - Men of Honor .... 'Mr. Pappy'
2000 - "The Outer Limits" .... Justice Oliver Harbison (1 episode)
2000 - Waking the Dead .... Isaac Green
2001 - The Majestic .... Congressman Doyle
2001 - Haven .... Harold L. Ickes
2001 - The Legend of the Three Trees .... Narrator
2001-2002 - "The West Wing" .... Asst. Secretary of State Albie Duncan
2002 - "Becker" .... Mr. Humphries (1 episode)
2002 - Purpose .... Tom Walker
2003 - Shade .... The Professor
2003 - The Street Lawyer .... Senior partner
2005 - The Cultivated Life: Thomas Jefferson and Wine .... Narrator
2005 - "Hope & Faith" .... Edward Lincoln Shanowski (1 episode)
2006 - "Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service" .... Mickey Stokes
2006 - "The Sopranos" .... John Schwinn (1 episode)
2007 - Into the Wild .... Ron Franz
2008 - Killshot .... Papa
2008 - "ER" .... Walter Perkins (2 episodes)
2009 - That Evening Sun .... Abner Meecham
2009 - Captain Cook's Extraordinary Atlas (completed) .... Dean Davis Winters
2010 - Good Day for It (filming) .... Hec
2010 - Flying Lessons (completed)
He was born Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr. on February 17, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. His mother was the former Eileen Davenport, a vaudeville dancer. Raised
primarily in South Weymouth, Mass., Holbrook attended the Culver Academies. During World War II, Holbrook served in the Army in Newfoundland. After the
war, he attended Denison University, graduating in 1948. While at Denison, Holbrook's senior honors project concerned Mark Twain. He'd later develop
"Mark Twain Tonight," the one-man show in which he impersonates the great American writer Mark Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens.

Holbrook learned his craft on the boards and by appearing in the TV soap opera "The Brighter Day." He first played Mark Twain as a solo act in 1954, at
Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. The show was a success that created a buzz. After seeing the performance, Ed Sullivan, the host of
TV's premier variety show, featured him on "Toast of the Town," on February 12, 1956. This lead to an international tour sponsored by the U.S. Department
of State, which included appearances in Iron Curtain countries. Holbrook brought the show to Off-Broadway in 1959. He even played Mark Twain for
President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The 1966 "Mark Twain Tonight" Broadway production brought Holbrook even more acclaim, and the Tony Award. The show was taped and Holbrook won
an Emmy nomination. He reprised the show on Broadway in 1977 and in 2005. By that time, he had played Samuel Clemens on stage over 2,000 times.

Among Holbrook's more famous roles was the Major in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's "Incident at Vichy," as Martin Sheen's significant
other in the controversial and acclaimed TV movie That Certain Summer, the first TV movie to sympathetically portray homosexuality, and as Abraham
Lincoln in a TV special based on Carl Sandburg's acclaimed biography of the 16th President. He also is known for his portrayal of the enigmatic Deep
Throat in All the President's Men, one of the major cinema events of the mid-'70s. In the 1990s, he had a regular supporting role in the TV series Evening
Shade, playing 'Burt Reynolds''s father-in-law.
Filmography
Awards
CableACE Awards
1988 - ACE  Informational or Documentary Host  
                                                              for: "Portrait of America"

Delta's Choice Awards
2007 - Delta Best Supporting Actor    for: Into the Wild

Emmy Awards
1989 - Emmy Outstanding Performance in Informational Programming  
                                                              for: "Portrait of America"
1976 - Emmy Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series   
                                                              for: "Lincoln"
1974 - Emmy Actor of the Year - Special      for: Pueblo
1974 - Emmy Best Lead Actor in a Drama      for: Pueblo
1971 - Emmy Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a
                                                             Leading Role in a Dramatic Series
                                                            for: "The Bold Ones: The Senator"

Golden Apple Awards
1971 - Golden Apple Male Star of the Year

SXSW Film Festival
2009 - Special Jury Award Best Ensemble Cast    for: That Evening Sun