Posted on 02/02/2021 4:45:43 AM PST by Cecily
Hal Holbrook, who carved out a substantial acting career in television and film but who achieved his widest acclaim onstage, embodying Mark Twain in all his craggy splendor and vinegary wit in a one-man show seen around the world, died Jan. 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was 95.
His death was confirmed by his assistant, Joyce Cohen, on Monday night.
Holbrook had a long and fruitful run as an actor. He was the shadowy patriot Deep Throat in “All the President’s Men” (1976); an achingly grandfatherly character in “Into the Wild” (2007), for which he received an Oscar nomination; and the influential Republican Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (2012).
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He was great in Wall Street. RIP.
We saw him at the Ford theater
He was truly great in his portrayal of Mark Twain
We saw him at the Ford theater
He was truly great in his portrayal of Mark Twain
RIP
“Good things, some times, take time.”
Another adult gone.
I believe he was married to Dixie Carter in real life, wasn't he?
I saw him onstage as Twain twice over the years. It was an amazing illusion. One feels the entire time that it is Twain onstage and not Holbrook.
Yes they would. Endometrial cancer.
They were married, see my previous post.
Joe Rochefort in Midway. Broke Japanese Code in WWII.
Barney Miller = Hal Linden
He was also very good as Jeremiah Denton in “When Hell Was In Session” 1979. I remember him having to lose a whole lot of weight to play the Vietnam POW..... RIP
I saw Mark Twain Tonight once, around 1980. Yes, you could easily believe that you were seeing Twain himself.
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Also starred in the prophetic “Wild in the Streets.” RIP
Dixie Carter died of endometrial (uterine) cancer.
Great in Creepshow
Though I always wondered, your friend tells you there’s a killer monster under the stairs in the basement at work, instead of thinking he is nutz, you immediately hatch a plan using the monster to kill your annoying (but Hot Adrian Bourbeau) wife.
I own that book. I bought my copy at Mount Vernon. My sister is raising my two nephews as lefties, but I hope to introduce them to that book, and the movie.
I also seem to remember him playing Lloyd Bucher in a dramatization of. BUcher’s trial for the seizure of the Pueblo.
I think that’s when he went downhill when Dixie his beloved wife died. Lots of men can’t live without their wives especially if their married 30 years plus.
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