Hal Holbrook

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Hal Holbrook (2007)

Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook Jr. (born February 17, 1925 in Cleveland , Ohio - † January 23, 2021 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American actor and author . He was considered a distinguished character actor in the cinema, television and theater, who was honored with five Emmy Awards and the Tony Award , among other things .

Career

Hal Holbrook graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where his studies were interrupted from 1942 by his service in the context of the Second World War. At university, he developed the one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! about Mark Twain , for whom he won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Actor . He started playing this role when he was 29; When he announced his retirement from stage acting in the fall of 2017, he had performed over 2,000 times. Holbrook, who had appeared as a monologist on smaller stages, celebrated his breakthrough with this role. He was particularly present on Broadway in the 1960s, including starring in the world premieres of Arthur Miller's plays After the Fall and Incident in Vichy .

For decades, Holbrook was one of the well-known American character actors and appeared in several film classics in high-profile supporting roles. He made his film debut in 1966, directed by Sidney Lumet in the film The Clique . In 1974 he was seen as the corrupt boss of Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry II - Calahan . He had one of his most important appearances in 1976 in the Watergate film Die Unbrechlichen as anonymous informant Deep Throat . His portrayal of the clergyman Father Malone, who conjures up the dark past of Antonio Bay in the horror film The Fog (1980), was also popular. His other well-known film appearances include the Holocaust drama Julia (1977) with Jane Fonda , a professor in George A. Romero's horror comedy Creepshow (1982), the stockbroker Lou Mannheim in Oliver Stones Wall Street (1987) alongside Michael Douglas , the senior partner of eponymous company in the thriller The Company (1993) with Tom Cruise and a racist officer in the military drama Men of Honor (2000) with Robert De Niro .

His portrayal of Ron Franz, an older man who befriends the main character in the Sean Penn- directed film Into the Wild , earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor . Good reviews he received in 2009 for his portrayal of an old Farmers in the independent film That Evening Sun . One of his last major films was Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), in which he played the historical role of Francis Preston Blair alongside Daniel Day-Lewis .

He had also taken on many television roles since the 1950s, including one of the first television soap operas called That Brighter Day . In addition to Mark Twain, he impersonated other historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln in the television miniseries Lincoln (1976) and Torches in the Storm (1985/1986). He won his five Emmy Awards primarily for his challenging character roles in television films , and received other nominations, including for his then groundbreaking portrayal of a homosexual family father in Back in the Summer (1972) and as the stage manager in an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Our Little Town . He has made guest appearances or recurring supporting roles in well-known series such as The FBI , Man Doesn't Have to Be , Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme , The Sopranos , Navy CIS , Grey's Anatomy and Sons of Anarchy . He had a series lead role between 1990 and 1994 in the sitcom Daddy creates us all , in which he played as Evan Evans the father-in-law of the main character played by Burt Reynolds . In total, Holbrook appeared in more than 130 film and television productions between 1955 and 2017.

Private life

Holbrook was married three times. From his first marriage from 1945 to 1965 with Ruby Johnson, the children Victoria and David Holbrook were born. From 1966 to 1979 he was married to Carol Eve Rossen . The daughter Eve Holbrook emerged from this marriage. He was married to actress Dixie Carter from 1984 until her death in April 2010 . Hal Holbrook died in January 2021 at the age of 95.

Awards

Halbrook as Mark Twain
Hal Holbrook (1999)

In 1971 Holbrook won the Golden Apple Award . In 2003 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal . For his role in Into the Wild , Holbrook was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Awards . With the same film, Holbrook took second place for Best Supporting Actor at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards .

Academy Award

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

Online Film Critics Society Awards

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards

Tony Award

  • (1966) Best Actor / Mark Twain Tonight

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Hal Holbrook  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Berkvist: Hal Holbrook, Actor Who Channeled Mark Twain, Is Dead at 95. In: The New York Times , February 2, 2021. Retrieved on February 2, 2021 (English).
  2. ^ Denison University: Hal R. Holbrook. In: Denison University Alumni. Accessed February 2, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Robert Berkvist: Hal Holbrook, Actor Who Channeled Mark Twain, Is Dead at 95 . In: The New York Times . February 2, 2021, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 2, 2021]).
  4. ↑ BWW News Desk: Hal Holbrook Mark Twain Retires After 63 Years Character. Accessed February 2, 2021 .
  5. ↑ Hal Holbrook | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Accessed February 2, 2021 .
  6. ↑ Hal Holbrook - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved February 2, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Hal Holbrook: From Mark Twain 'Into the Wild'. Accessed February 2, 2021 .
  8. ^ Roger Ebert: That Evening Sun movie review (2010) | Roger Ebert. Accessed February 2, 2021 .
  9. ↑ Today In Gay History: Hal Holbrook & Martin Sheen loving partners in That Certain Summer. November 1, 2014, accessed February 2, 2021 .
  10. ↑ Just because: Hal Holbrook in Our Town. July 13, 2015, accessed February 2, 2021 (American English).
  11. ↑ Spiegel Online : "American Naturbursche" , January 30, 2008
  12. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Hal Holbrook Awards . IMDB.com. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Holbrook, Hal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holbrook, Harold Rowe junior; Holbrook, Hal junior (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2021
Place of death Beverly Hills , California