Hal Holbrook
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
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 .
- (2008) Nominated - Best Supporting Actor / Into the Wild
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
- (2008) Nominated - Best Supporting Actor / Into the Wild
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
- (2007) Nominated - Best Supporting Actor / Into the Wild
Online Film Critics Society Awards
- (2008) Nominated - Best Supporting Actor / Into the Wild
- (2008) Nominated - Best Supporting Actor / Into the Wild
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Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
- (1967) Nominated - Mark Twain Tonight!
- (1971) Nominated - A Clear and Present Danger
- (1973) Nominated - That Certain Summer
- (1974) Pueblo
- (1976) Sandburg's Lincoln
- (1978) Nominee - The Awakening Land
- (1969) Nominee - The Whole World is Watching
- Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama or Comedy Special
- (1978) Nominated - Our Town
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Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series
- (1971) The Bold Ones: The Senator
- Outstanding Informational Series
- (1988) Nominated - Portrait of America (segment: New York City)
- Outstanding Performance in Informational Programming
- (1989) Portrait of America (Segment: Alaska)
- Actor of the Year (former category)
- (1974) Pueblo
- (1966) Best Actor / Mark Twain Tonight
Filmography (selection)
- 1954–1959: That Brighter Day (TV series)
- 1966: The Clique (The Group)
- 1968: Wild in the Streets
- 1970: The Great White Hope (The Great White Hope)
- 1970–1971: The Bold Ones: The Senator (TV series, 9 episodes)
- 1972: The Trail of the Black Beast (They Only Kill Their Masters)
- 1972: That Certain Summer (TV movie)
- 1973: Jonathan the Seagull ( Jonathan Livingston Seagull , voice)
- 1973: Dirty Harry II - Calahan (Magnum Force)
- 1974: The Girl from Petrovka (The Girl from Petrovka)
- 1974–1976: Lincoln (TV miniseries, 6 episodes)
- 1976: Battle for Midway (Midway)
- 1976: The Untouchables (All the President's Men)
- 1977: Julia
- 1977: Rituals
- 1978: Capricorn Company (Capricorn One)
- 1979: Murder by Natural Causes (TV movie)
- 1979: Natural Enemies
- 1980: The Fog (John Carpenter's The Fog)
- 1980: The Kidnapping of the President
- 1982: Creepshow
- 1983: A judge sees red (The Star Chamber)
- 1985–1986: Torches in the Storm ( North and South , television miniseries, six episodes)
- 1986–1990: Mann does not have to be ( Designing Women , television series, nine episodes; directed four episodes)
- 1987: Wall Street
- 1988: The Unholy (The Unholy)
- 1989: Fletch (Fletch Lives)
- 1989: The Bomb ( Day One , TV movie)
- 1990: Killing In A Small Town
- 1990–1994: Daddy Can Do Us All ( Evening Shade , TV series, 81 episodes)
- 1993: The company (The Firm)
- 1994: Perry Mason: McKenzie and the extortionate presenter ( A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle , TV movie)
- 1994: Perry Mason: McKenzie and the Dead Governors ( A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor , TV movie)
- 1995: A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester (TV movie)
- 1995: Brutal Excesses - Scandal in the Navy (She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal)
- 1996: Acts of Love - In the Clutches of Sensuality (Carried Away)
- 1997: Operation Delta Force
- 1997: Eye of God
- 1997: Hercules (voice)
- 1998: Icy Silence (Hush)
- 1998: Judas Kiss
- 1998: Rusty : A Dog's Tale
- 1999: The Florentine
- 1999: The Bachelor (The Bachelor)
- 2000: Men of Honor
- 2000: Waking the Dead
- 2000: The Adventures of Santa Claus (The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus) voice
- 2001: The Majestic
- 2001: The West Wing - In the center of power ( The West Wing , TV series, episode 3x06)
- 2002: Purpose
- 2003: Shade
- 2006: The Sopranos ( The Sopranos , TV series, episode 6x04)
- 2006: Navy CIS ( NCIS , TV series, episode 4x02)
- 2007: Into the Wild
- 2008: Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme ( ER , TV series, 2 episodes)
- 2010-2014: Sons of Anarchy (TV series, 5 episodes)
- 2010–2011: The Event (TV series, 10 episodes)
- 2011: Water for Elephants (Water for Elephants)
- 2012: Promised Land
- 2012: Lincoln
- 2013: Rectify (TV series, episode 1x03)
- 2013: Savannah
- 2017: Bones (TV series, episode The Final Chapter: The New Tricks in the Old Dogs )
- 2017: Grey's Anatomy (TV series, episode 13x17)
- 2017: Hawaii Five-0 (TV series, episode backbreaking )
Web links
- Hal Holbrook in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hal Holbrook in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
- ^ Denison University: Hal R. Holbrook. In: Denison University Alumni. Accessed February 2, 2021 .
- ↑ 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]).
- ↑ BWW News Desk: Hal Holbrook Mark Twain Retires After 63 Years Character. Accessed February 2, 2021 .
- ↑ Hal Holbrook | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Accessed February 2, 2021 .
- ↑ Hal Holbrook - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved February 2, 2021 .
- ↑ Hal Holbrook: From Mark Twain 'Into the Wild'. Accessed February 2, 2021 .
- ^ Roger Ebert: That Evening Sun movie review (2010) | Roger Ebert. Accessed February 2, 2021 .
- ↑ Today In Gay History: Hal Holbrook & Martin Sheen loving partners in That Certain Summer. November 1, 2014, accessed February 2, 2021 .
- ↑ Just because: Hal Holbrook in Our Town. July 13, 2015, accessed February 2, 2021 (American English).
- ↑ Spiegel Online : "American Naturbursche" , January 30, 2008
- ↑ 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 | |
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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 |