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Hal Holbrook

Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. was an award-winning actor who appeared in All the President’s Men and Lincoln. He was best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy Award nominations.

Aliases
  • Harold Holbrook
English
Filmography

Hercules

1997
as Amphitryon (voice)

Into the Wild

2007
as Ronald "Ron" Franz

Water for Elephants

2011
as Old Jacob

Lincoln

2012
as Preston Blair

Planes: Fire & Rescue

2014
as Mayday (voice)

Wall Street

1987
as Lou Mannheim

Men of Honor

2000
as 'Mr. Pappy'

The Event

2010
as James Dempsey

Midway

1976
as Cmdr. Joseph Rochefort

Lost in Middle America (and What Happened Next)

1999
as Narrator

Dirty Harry: The Original

2001
as Hal Holbrook

Mark Twain

2002
as Himself

Mark Twain Tonight!

1967
as Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus

2000
as Ak - Master Woodsman of the World (voice)

The Bell Telephone Hour

1960

Rusty: A Dog's Tale

1998
as Boyd Callahan

Cats Don't Dance

1997
as Cranston (voice)

Off the Minnesota Strip

1980
as Bud Johansen

All the President's Men

1976
as Deep Throat

The Star Chamber

1983
as Judge Benjamin Caulfield

That Certain Summer

1972
as Doug Salter

Day One

1989
as Gen. George Marshall

Waking the Dead

2000
as Isaac Green

Fletch Lives

1989
as Hamilton "Ham" Johnson

Rituals

1977
as Harry

A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry

2008
as Hal Holbrook

The Bold Ones: The Senator

1970

The Great White Hope

1970
as Cameron

Under Siege

1986
as President Maxwell Monroe

Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'

2002
as Narrator

Good Day for It

2011
as Hec

Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times

2009
as Harrison Gray Otis

Carried Away

1996
as Doctor Evans

The Legend of the Three Trees

2001
as Narrator

Creepshow

1982
as Henry Northrup (segment "The Crate")

The Three Wishes of Billy Grier

1984
as Grandpa Grier

Travis Logan, D.A.

1971
as Matthew Sand

Mark Twain

2002
as Self

Flying Lessons

2010

Tartuffe

1978
as Hal Holbrook

George Washington (1984)

1984
as John Adams

Evening Shade

1990
as Evan Evans

The Girl from Petrovka

1974
as Joe

They Only Kill Their Masters

1972
as Dr. Warren G. Watkins

All the Winters that Have Been

1997
as Uncle Ren Corvin

The People Next Door

1970
as David Hoffman

Natural Enemies

1979
as Paul Steward

The Battle of The Alamo

1996
as Narrator

Hush

1998
as Dr. Franklin Hill

92 Grosvenor Street

1985

The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City

1970
as Mitch Collins

My Own Country

1998
as Lloyd Flanders

That Evening Sun

2009
as Abner Meecham

A Killing in a Small Town

1990
as Dr. Beardsley

Magnum Force

1973
as Lieutenant Briggs

A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor

1994
as Wild Bill McKenzie

When Hell Was in Session

1979
as Cmdr. Jeremiah A. Denton

Promised Land

2012
as Frank Yates

Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey

2014

Murder by Natural Causes

1979
as Arthur Sinclair

The Awakening Land

1978
as Portius Wheeler

Purpose

2002
as Tom Walker

The Unholy

1988
as Archbishop Mosely

Eye of God

1997
as Sheriff Rogers

Designing Women

1986
as Reese Watson

Blackway

2015
as Whizzer

Trail of Hope

1997
as Narrator

The Majestic

2001
as Congressman Doyle

The Glass Menagerie

1966
as Tom Wingfield

Killshot

2008
as Papa

Our Town

1977
as Stage manager

Goodbye, Raggedy Ann

1971
as Harlan Webb

The Kidnapping of the President

1980
as President Adam Scott

Haven

2001
as Harold L. Ickes

Capricorn One

1977
as Dr. James Kelloway

Judas Kiss

1998
as Senator Rupert Hornbeck

Suddenly Single

1971
as Larry Hackett

Pueblo

1973
as Capt. Lloyd Bucher

Shade

2003
as The Professor

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel

1988
as Hal Holbrook

The Firm

1993
as Oliver Lambert

The Business End: Violence in Cinema

2008
as Hal Holbrook

The Group

1966
as Gus Leroy

The Killing of Randy Webster

1981
as John Webster

A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester

1995
as Wild Bill McKenzie

Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

2013
as Himself

Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat

2006
as Self - Narrator

Julia

1977
as Alan

The Street Lawyer

as Arthur Jacobs

Sandburg's Lincoln

1974
as Abraham Lincoln

Girls Nite Out

1982
as Jim MacVey

The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry

2008
as Hal Holbrook

Savannah

2013
as Judge Harden

The Evolution of Clint Eastwood

2008
as Hal Holbrook

Wild in the Streets

1968
as Sen. Johnny Fergus

Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"

2006
as Self - Narrator

The Bachelor

1999
as Roy O'Dell

A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle

1994
as William McKenzie

Bonds of Love

1993
as Jim Smith

The Florentine

1999
as Smitty

An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story

2017
as Reinhold Niebuhr

The Legend of the Golden Gun

1979
as J.R. Swackhammer

Operation Delta Force

1997
as Admiral Henshaw

The Fog

1980
as Father Malone

Director

Episode Designing Women
Mr. Meal Ticket 		1989
Episode Designing Women
The Fur Flies 		1990
Episode Designing Women
Ted-Bare 		1988
Episode Designing Women
Reservations for Eight 		1988

Writer

Movie Mark Twain Tonight! 1967

Host

Episode Great Performances
The Seagull 		1975

Crew

Movie Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" 2006

Guest Star

Episode Bones
The New Tricks in the Old Dogs 		2017
Episode Good Morning, Miami
Subterranean Workplace Blues 		1970
Episode The Event
Everything Will Change 		2010
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Hal Holbrook, Jerry Lee Lewis, Brendan Gill, Marlene Ver Planck 		1971
Episode The Outer Limits (1995)
Final Appeal (1) 		2000
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Hal Holbrook 		1979
Episode The F.B.I.
The Fraud 		1969
Episode The Event
Inostranka 		2011
Episode The Outer Limits (1995)
Final Appeal (2) 		2000
Episode IMAX Ultimate Collection
Stormchasers 		1995
Episode North and South
Summer 1842 - Summer 1844 		1985
Episode Monday Mornings
The Legend and the Fall 		2013
Episode NCIS
Escaped 		2006
Episode The Event
A Message Back 		2011
Episode Family Law
One Mistake 		2000
Episode Grey's Anatomy
'Til I Hear It from You 		2017
Episode The West Wing
Gone Quiet 		2001
Episode The Event
A Matter of Life and Death 		2010
Episode American Experience
Daley: The Last Boss 		1996
Episode Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Waimaka 'ele'ele 		2017
Episode Becker
And The Heartbeat Goes On 		2002
Episode The Event
I Know Who You Are 		2010
Episode Hope & Faith
A Room of One's Own 		2005
Episode Discovery Channel Documentaries
Battleship 		1970
Episode The Event
For the Good of Our Country 		2010
Episode Coronet Blue
Faces 		1967
Episode The West Wing
Game On 		2002
Episode The Event
Your World to Take 		2010