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Profile of Hal Holbrook
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Hal Holbrook |
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17th February 1925 |
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Hal Holbrook (born February 17, 1925) is an American actor. He was born Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr. in Cleveland, Ohio, and was mostly raised in South Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Mark Twain Tonight
Holbrook is a graduate of Denison University, where an honors project about Mark Twain led him to develop the one man show he is best known for, a series of performances called Mark Twain Tonight. According to Playbill, Holbrook’s first solo performance as Twain was at Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania in 1954. Ed Sullivan saw him and gave Holbrook his first national exposure on his February 12, 1956 show. The State Department even sent him on a European tour, which included pioneering appearances behind the Iron Curtain.
Holbrook's Twain appeared on Broadway in 1966, and returned in 1977 and 2005; Holbrook was 80 during his most recent Broadway run, older (for the first time) than the character he was portraying.
Mark Twain Tonight has repeatedly toured across the country in what as of 2005 has amounted to over 2000 performances.
Other work
In 1976, Holbrook won further acclaim for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in a series of television specials based on Carl Sandburg's acclaimed biography. He has also starred in many films and TV programs.
Early in his career he worked on stage and in a television soap opera, The Brighter Day. Holbrook is also famous for his role as the enigmatic Deep Throat (whose identity was unknown at the time) in the film, All the President's Men.
Filmography
- The Group (1966): Film Debut
- Magnum Force (1973)
- All the President's Men (1976)
- Midway (1976)
- Capricorn One (1978)
- The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
- Creepshow (1982)
- Wall Street (1987)
- The Unholy (1988)
- Fletch Lives (1989)
- The Firm (1993)
- Eye of God (1997)
- Hush (1998)
External links and sources
- Hal Holbrook at the Internet Movie Database.
- Hal Holbrook at the Internet Broadway Database.
- Hal Holbrook profile, NNDB.
- Biography and story about his return to Broadway from Playbill.
- 2004 Story on Holbrook from NOW.
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