Hal Holbrook

ACTOR, DIRECTOR, WRITER

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Hal Holbrook is an Emmy- and Tony-Award winning actor who is one of the great craftsman of stage and screen. He is best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy Award nominations. Aside from the stage, Holbrook made his reputation primarily on television, and was memorable as Abraham Lincoln, as Senator Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator (1970) and as Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo (1973). All of these roles brought him Emmy Awards, with Pueblo (1973) bringing him two, as Best Lead Actor in a Drama and Actor of the Year - Special. On January 22, 2008, he became the oldest male performer ever nominated for a an Academy Award, for his supporting turn in Into the Wild (2007) He was born Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr. on February 17, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Eileen (Davenport), a vaudeville dancer, and Harold Rowe Holbrook, Sr. Raised primarily in South Weymouth, Mass., Holbrook attended the Culver Academies. During World War II, Holbrook served in the Army in Newfoundland. After the war, he attended Denison University, graduating in 1948. While at Denison, Holbrook's senior honors project concerned Mark Twain. He'd later develop "Mark Twain Tonight", the one-man show in which he impersonates the great American writer Mark Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens. Holbrook learned his craft on the boards and by appearing in the TV soap opera The Brighter Day (1954). He first played Mark Twain as a solo act in 1954, at Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. The show was a success that created a buzz. After seeing the performance, Ed Sullivan, the host of TV's premier variety show, featured him on Toast of the Town (1948) on February 12, 1956. This lead to an international tour sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, which included appearances in Iron Curtain countries. Holbrook brought the show to Off-Broadway in 1959. He even played Mark Twain for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The 1966 "Mark Twain Tonight" Broadway production brought Holbrook even more acclaim, and the Tony Award. The show was taped and Holbrook won an Emmy nomination. He reprised the show on Broadway in 1977 and in 2005. By that time, he had played Samuel Clemens on stage over 2,000 times. Among Holbrook's more famous roles was "The Major" in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's "Incident at Vichy", as Martin Sheen's significant other in the controversial and acclaimed TV movie That Certain Summer (1972), the first TV movie to sympathetically portray homosexuality, and as Abraham Lincoln in a TV special based on Carl Sandburg's acclaimed biography of the 16th President. He also is known for his portrayal of the enigmatic "Deep Throat" in Les hommes du président (1976), one of the major cinema events of the mid-'70s. In the 1990s, he had a regular supporting role in the TV series Evening Shade (1990), playing 'Burt Reynolds''s father-in-law. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jon C. Hopwood

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Hal Holbrook’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Hal Holbrook on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1970 to 2017. See the full graphs of the number of Hal Holbrook movies released per year from 1998 till 2017.

Top Genres

Hal Holbrook works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 34% of Hal Holbrook movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Hal Holbrook worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Hal Holbrook has worked on is 7.0.

7.0 / 10

Hal Holbrook's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

The story of the most important American exploration expedition in American history and the participants in it.

8.5/10240 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

From the early race to build gliders to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germany's final surrender, "Silent Wings - The American Glider Pilots of WWII" narrated by Hal Holbrook, ...

7.9/10113 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Mystery
Magnum Force (1973)

San Francisco Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is on the trail of vigilante Police Officers who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables.

7.2/10124 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

7.1/10\N min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
Dress Gray (1986)

When a first-classman's insignia is found on the riverbank near the drowned body of plebe David Hand, the specter of murder casts a shadow of scandal across the U.S. Grant Military Academy....

7/10192 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

6.8/10\N min

Available in 2 platform(s).

When gubernatorial candidate Harlan Richards is murdered, the suspicions fall on the incumbent Governor Ryan Allison but when he, too, is murdered the plot thickens.

6.8/1096 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama,Mystery,Thriller
The Firm (1993)

A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.

6.8/10154 min

Available in 14 platform(s).