Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021), better known as Hal Holbrook, was an American actor. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show that he developed called Mark Twain Tonight! while studying at Denison University. He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1966 for his portrayal of Twain.[1] He continued to perform his signature role for over 60 years, only retiring the show in 2017 due to his failing health. Throughout his career, he also won five Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on television and was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in film.[2]
Holbrook made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966). He later gained international fame for his performance as Deep Throat in the 1976 film All the President's Men. He played Abraham Lincoln in the 1973 miniseries Lincoln and the 1985 miniseries North and South. He also appeared in such films as Julia and Capricorn One (1977), The Fog (1980), Creepshow (1982), Wall Street (1987), The Firm (1993), Hercules (1997), and Men of Honor (2000).[3][4]
Holbrook's role as Ron Franz in Sean Penn's Into the Wild (2007) earned him both an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[1] In 2009, he received critical acclaim for his performance as recently retired farmer Abner Meecham in the independent film That Evening Sun.[5] He also portrayed Francis Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).[6][7]
In 2003, Holbrook was honored with the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush.[8]
Early life[]
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. was born on February 17, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Aileen (née Davenport) Holbrook (1905–1987), a vaudeville dancer, and Harold Rowe Holbrook Sr. (1902–1982).[9]
Holbrook and his two older sisters were abandoned by their parents when he was two years old.[10] The three children were raised by their paternal grandparents, first in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and later in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio.[10] He graduated from Culver Military Academy (now part of the Culver Academies) and then from Denison University, where an honors project about Mark Twain led him to develop the one-man show for which he was best known, a series of performances called Mark Twain Tonight!.[11] He also studied acting at HB Studio in New York City.[12]
From 1942 through 1946, Holbrook served in the United States Army in World War II, achieving the rank of staff sergeant; he was stationed in Newfoundland,[13] where he performed in theater productions such as the play Lady Precious Stream.[10]
Career[]
Mark Twain Tonight![]
Holbrook's first solo performance as Twain was at Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania in 1954. Ed Sullivan saw him and gave 31-year-old Holbrook his first national exposure on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 12, 1956.[14] Holbrook was also a member of the Valley Players (1941–1962), a summer-stock theater company based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, which performed at Mountain Park Casino Playhouse at Mountain Park.[15] He joined The Lambs Club in 1955, where he began developing his one-man show.[10] He was a member of the cast for several years and performed Mark Twain Tonight! as the 1957 season opener.[15] The State Department even sent him on a European tour, which included pioneering appearances behind the Iron Curtain.[10]
In 1959, Holbrook first played the role off-Broadway.[14] Columbia Records recorded an LP of excerpts from the show.[3]
Holbrook performed in a special production for the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair for the Bell Telephone Pavilion. Jo Mielziner created an innovative audio-visual ride experience and used Holbrook's acting talents on 65 different action screens for "The Ride of Communications" with the movie itself known as From Drumbeats to Telstar.[16]
In 1967, Mark Twain Tonight! was presented on television by CBS and Xerox, and Holbrook received an Emmy for his performance.[3] Holbrook's Twain first played on Broadway in 1966, and again in 1977 and 2005; Holbrook was 80 years old during his final Broadway run, older (for the first time) than the character he was portraying.[3][17] Holbrook won a Tony Award for the performance in 1966.[3] Until Holbrook retired in 2017, aged 92, Mark Twain Tonight! toured the country, which amounted to over 2,100 performances. This included one of his first performances in the spring of 1962 and one of his last in September 2014, at his high-school alma mater in Indiana.[18]
Success[]
In 1964, Holbrook played the role of the Major in the original production of Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy.[19] In 1968, he was one of the replacements for Richard Kiley in the original Broadway production of Man of La Mancha, although he had limited singing ability.[19] In 1966, Holbrook starred opposite Shirley Booth in the acclaimed CBS Playhouse production of The Glass Menagerie.[20]
Holbrook co-starred with Martin Sheen in the controversial and acclaimed 1972 television film That Certain Summer.[3] Around that same year, Holbrook appeared in a television public service announcement (PSA) commissioned by the Ad Council; aimed at the parents of college students planning to study abroad, the PSA sees Holbrook in a jail cell, warning viewers to inform their children of the penalties for drug abuse in countries outside the US.[21][22] In 1973, Holbrook appeared as Lieutenant Neil Briggs, the boss and rival of Detective "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Magnum Force, an "obsessively neat and prim fanatic" who supports the obliteration of San Francisco's criminals and who is the leader of a rogue group of vigilante officers.[23][24]
In 1976, Holbrook won acclaim for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in a series of television specials based on Carl Sandburg's acclaimed biography.[3] He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the 1970 series The Bold Ones: The Senator.[10] He was 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.[25][26] In 1979, he starred with Katharine Ross, Barry Bostwick, and Richard Anderson in the made-for-TV movie Murder by Natural Causes.[27] He appeared in other various mini-series, including George Washington (1984) and Dress Gray (1986), and continued performing in theatrical productions, such as King Lear.[28] Holbrook was the narrator on the Ken Burns documentary Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery in 1997.[10]
From 1986 to 1989, Holbrook had a recurring role as Reese Watson on Designing Women, opposite his wife Dixie Carter.[29] Over a short period between 1988 and 1990, Holbrook directed four episodes of the series.[3] Holbrook also had a major role on the sitcom Evening Shade throughout its entire run.[30] Early on in his career, Holbrook worked onstage and in a television soap opera, The Brighter Day.[3]
In 1999, Holbrook was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.[31] A year later, Holbrook appeared in Men of Honor, where he portrayed a racist and hypocritical officer who endlessly tries to fail an African-American diver trainee.[32] Holbrook played the role of Albie Duncan in two episodes of The West Wing.[33]
He appeared as the host in the documentary The Seventh Day: Revelations From The Lost Pages of History (2005).[34]
Later career[]
He appeared in Sean Penn's critically acclaimed film Into the Wild (2007) and received an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role at the 80th Academy Awards.[1] At the time, this rendered Holbrook, at age 82, the oldest nominee in Academy Award history in the Best Supporting Actor category.[1] Holbrook was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for his work in the film.[1] From late August through mid-September 2007, he starred as the narrator in the Hartford Stage production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, a role he had once played on television.[1]
Holbrook appeared with wife Dixie Carter in That Evening Sun, filmed in East Tennessee in the summer of 2008.[5] The film, produced by Dogwood Entertainment,[5] is based on a short story by William Gay. That Evening Sun premiered in March 2009 at South By Southwest, where it received the Audience Award for Narrative Feature and a special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast.[5] Joe Leydon of Variety hailed Hollbrook's performance in the film as a "career-highlight star turn as an irascible octogenarian farmer who will not go gentle into that good night".[5] That Evening Sun also was screened at the 2009 Nashville Film Festival, where Holbrook was honored with a special Lifetime Achievement Award, and the film itself received another Audience Award.[35]
Holbrook appeared as a featured guest star in a 2006 episode of the HBO series The Sopranos and the NCIS episode "Escaped".[3] On April 22, 2010, Holbrook signed on to portray Katey Sagal's character's father on the FX original series Sons of Anarchy for a four-episode arc in their third season, as well as appearing in additional fifth episode in the final season.[36] He also had a multiple-episode arc on The Event, an American television series on NBC, appearing in the 2010–2011 season.[37]
In 2011, Holbrook appeared in Water for Elephants.[38] In 2012, Steven Spielberg cast Holbrook to play Francis Preston Blair in Lincoln.[6] His film roles were in Gus Van Sant's Promised Land (2012),[39] the animated film Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014),[40] and in the minor role as Whizzer in the drama film Blackway (2016).[7] In 2014, Holbrook was the subject of Scott Teems' documentary Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey depicting Holbrook's long-lasting career portraying Twain.[10] It was premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival that same year.[10]
In 2016, Holbrook was cast as Red Hudmore and appeared in the final season of Bones on January 17, 2017.[41] On March 23, 2017, he appeared on an episode on Grey's Anatomy playing a retired thoracic surgeon whose wife is a patient, and on Hawaii Five-0 later in the year.[42][43]
In September 2017, after six decades of playing the role of Mark Twain, Holbrook announced his retirement from Mark Twain Tonight![18] Holbrook indicated that he would like to continue working on movies and television.[18]
Personal life[]
Holbrook was married three times and had three children. He married a Newfoundlander, Ruby Elaine Johnston, in 1945 and they had two children.[3] They divorced in 1965. In 1966, he married Carol Eve Rossen.[44] They had one child and they divorced in 1983.[3]
Holbrook married actress and singer Dixie Carter in 1984 and the couple remained married until Carter's death from endometrial cancer on April 10, 2010.[45] Holbrook appeared as a recurring character on Carter's TV series, Designing Women.[29]
Holbrook said of his home in McLemoresville, Tennessee, that it had the "feel" of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, and that there was no other place to which he felt so ideally suited.[46] He also had a residence in Beverly Hills, California.[10] Holbrook had a recurring role on his wife's hit sitcom Designing Women, appearing in nine episodes between 1986 and 1989 as Carter's on-screen significant other.[3] In 2011, Holbrook's memoir, Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.[47]
In October 2016, Holbrook wrote a letter to The New York Times defending actor director Nate Parker over his alleged 1999 rape of a woman and Parker's controversial film The Birth of a Nation.[48] He urged others to "move on" from Parker's past and to view the film, which was "an exceptional piece of artistry and a vital portrait of our American experience".[48]
Political views[]
Holbrook occasionally criticized the politicization of religion.[49] He was a registered independent, but leaned towards the liberal end of the U.S. political spectrum.[50] He criticized the Republican Party while Barack Obama was in office.[50]
In 2016, he castigated then-Republican candidate Donald Trump for not having "the maturity to run the country".[14] Holbrook praised Senator Bernie Sanders as the only politician who does not "say what they think might get them elected" and praised his honesty.[51]
Death[]
Holbrook died at his home in Beverly Hills on January 23, 2021, at age 95; no cause was given.[52] He was buried in McLemoresville Cemetery in McLemoresville, Tennessee, alongside his wife, Dixie Carter.[53]
Legacy[]
In 2003, President George W. Bush honored Holbrook with a National Humanities Medal for "charming audiences with the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain as Twain's outlook never fails to give Holbrook a good show to put on".[8]
The local community of McLemoresville, hometown of his wife Dixie Carter, constructed the Dixie Theatre for Performing Arts in nearby Huntingdon, Tennessee, which features the Hal Holbrook Auditorium.[46] Upon his retirement from his Mark Twain persona, the HuffPost wrote that Holbrook was "the man who has done more to keep Mark Twain on people's minds than anyone else".[54]
Filmography[]
Film[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | The Group | Gus Leroy | [55] | |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tom Wingfield | Television film | ||
| 1967 | Mark Twain Tonight! | Mark Twain | Television special | [55] |
| 1968 | Wild in the Streets | Senator Johnny Fergus | [55] | |
| The Brotherhood | Man at Table | Uncredited | ||
| 1969 | The Whole World Is Watching | Chancellor Leonard Graham | Television film | |
| 1970 | The People Next Door | David Hoffman | ||
| The Great White Hope | Al Cameron | [56] | ||
| 1971 | Travis Logan, D.A. | Matthew Sand | Television film | |
| Suddenly Single | Larry Hackett | |||
| Goodbye, Raggedy Ann | Harlan Webb | |||
| 1972 | They Only Kill Their Masters | Dr. Warren Watkins | [56] | |
| That Certain Summer | Doug Salter | Television film | [55] | |
| 1973 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | The Elder | Uncredited voice | |
| Magnum Force | Lieutenant Neil Briggs | [55] | ||
| Pueblo | Commander Lloyd M. Bucher | Television film | [55] | |
| 1974 | The Girl from Petrovka | Joe | [55] | |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Deep Throat | [55] | |
| Midway | Commander Joseph Rochefort | [55] | ||
| 33 Hours in the Life of God | Dr. Simon Abbott | Television film | ||
| 1977 | Rituals | Harry | [55] | |
| Julia | Alan Campbell | [55] | ||
| Capricorn One | Dr. James Kelloway | [55] | ||
| Our Town | Stage Manager | Television film | ||
| 1978 | The Awakening Land | Portius Wheeler | Television miniseries | [55] |
| 1979 | Natural Enemies | Paul Steward | [55] | |
| Murder by Natural Causes | Arthur Sinclair | Television film | [55] | |
| The Legend of the Golden Gun | J.R. Swackhammer | [55] | ||
| When Hell Was in Session | Commander Jeremiah Denton | [55] | ||
| 1980 | The Fog | Father Malone | [55] | |
| The Kidnapping of the President | President Adam Scott | [55] | ||
| Off the Minnesota Strip | Bud Johansen | Television film | ||
| 1981 | The Killing of Randy Webster | John Webster | [56] | |
| 1982 | Creepshow | Henry Northrup | Segment: "The Crate" | [56] |
| Girls Nite Out | Jim MacVey | a.k.a. The Scaremaker | [26] | |
| 1983 | The Star Chamber | Judge Benjamin Caulfield | [26] | |
| 1984 | George Washington | John Adams | Television miniseries | [26] |
| The Three Wishes of Billy Grier | Grandpa Grier | Television film | ||
| 1985 | North and South | Abraham Lincoln | Television miniseries | [26] |
| Behind Enemy Lines | Col. Calvin Turner | Television film | ||
| 1986 | Under Siege | President Maxwell Monroe | ||
| Dress Gray | General Charles Hedges | Television miniseries | [26] | |
| North and South: Book II | Abraham Lincoln | [26] | ||
| 1987 | Wall Street | Lou Mannheim | [56] | |
| Plaza Suite | Sam Nash | Television film | ||
| 1988 | The Unholy | Archbishop Mosely | [56] | |
| The Fortunate Pilgrim[26] | Dr. Andrew McKay | Television miniseries | [26] | |
| I'll Be Home for Christmas | Joseph Bundy | Television film | [26] | |
| 1989 | Fletch Lives | Hamilton "Ham" Johnson | [26] | |
| Day One | George C. Marshall | Television film | [26] | |
| Sorry, Wrong Number | Jim Coltrane | |||
| 1990 | A Killing in a Small Town | Dr. Beardsley | ||
| 1993 | The Firm | Oliver Lambert | [56] | |
| Bonds of Love | Jim Smith | Television film | ||
| 1994 | A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle | William "Wild Bill" McKenzie | ||
| A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor | ||||
| 1995 | A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester | |||
| She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal | Admiral Kelso | |||
| 1996 | Carried Away | Doctor Evans | [26] | |
| Innocent Victims | Bob Hennis | Television film | ||
| 1997 | Cats Don't Dance | Cranston | Voice | [26] |
| Hercules | Amphitryon | [56] | ||
| Eye of God | Sheriff Rogers | [26] | ||
| Trail of Hope: The Story of the Mormon Trail | Narrator | |||
| Operation Delta Force | Admiral Henshaw | Television film | ||
| All the Winters That Have Been | Uncle Ren Corvin | |||
| The Third Twin | Pete | |||
| 1998 | Hush | Dr. Franklin Hill | [56] | |
| Walking to the Waterline | Man on the Beach | [56] | ||
| Judas Kiss | Senator Rupert Hornbeck | |||
| Rusty: A Dog's Tale | Boyd Callahan | [56] | ||
| Beauty | Alexander Miller | Television film | [26] | |
| My Own Country | Lloyd Flanders | |||
| 1999 | The Florentine | Smitty | ||
| The Bachelor | Roy O'Dell | [26] | ||
| A Place Apart | Narrator | Television film | ||
| 2000 | Waking the Dead | Isaac Green | [26] | |
| Men of Honor | Mr. Pappy | [56] | ||
| The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus | Ak – Master Woodsman of the World | Voice | [26] | |
| 2001 | Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse | Geppetto | Voice | |
| The Majestic | Congressman Doyle | [56] | ||
| Haven | Harold L. Ickes | Television film | ||
| The Legend of the Three Trees | Narrator | [56] | ||
| 2002 | Purpose | Tom Walker | ||
| The Seventh Day Series | Himself | Documentary | [26] | |
| 2003 | Country Music: The Spirit of America | Narrator | IMAX | [57] |
| Shade | The Professor | [26] | ||
| The Street Lawyer | Arthur Jacobs | Television film | ||
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Ron Franz | [56] | |
| 2008 | Killshot | Papa | [26] | |
| 2009 | That Evening Sun | Abner Meecham | [56] | |
| Captain Cook's Extraordinary Atlas | Dean Davis Winters | Television film | ||
| 2010 | Flying Lessons | Harry Pleasant | ||
| 2011 | Good Day for It | Hector | [26] | |
| Water for Elephants | Old Jacob Jankowski | [56] | ||
| 2012 | Lincoln | Francis Preston Blair | [56] | |
| Promised Land | Frank Yates | [56] | ||
| 2013 | Savannah | Judge Harden | [56] | |
| 2014 | Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey | Himself | Documentary | |
| Planes: Fire & Rescue | Mayday | Voice | [56] | |
| 2015 | Blackway | Whizzer | Final film role | [26] |
| 2017 | An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story | Reinhold Niebuhr | Voice; television film |
Television[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954–1959 | The Brighter Day | Grayling Dennis #1 | Unknown episodes | |
| 1955 | Mr. Citizen | Don Gallagher | Episode: "Late for Supper" | |
| 1966 | Preview Tonight | Unknown | Episode: "The Cliff Dwellers" | |
| 1967 | Coronet Blue | Carey Thomas | Episode: "Faces" | |
| 1967–1968 | Off to See the Wizard | Narrator | Unknown episodes | |
| 1969 | The F.B.I. | Christopher Simes | Episode: "The Fraud" | |
| The Name of the Game | Mayor John Adrian | Episode: "The Perfect Image" | ||
| 1970 | The F.B.I. | Doug McElroy | Episode: "The Target" | |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | Mitch Collins | 2 episodes | ||
| 1970–1971 | The Bold Ones: The Senator | Senator Hays Stowe | 8 episodes | [55] |
| 1974–1976 | Carl Sandburg's Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | Television miniseries | [55] |
| 1975–1976 | Great Performances | Theater in America Host | 2 episodes | |
| 1983–1988 | Portrait of America | Himself | 8 episodes | [26] |
| 1984 | Celebrity | Calvin Sledge | 3 episodes | |
| 1986–1989 | Designing Women | Reese Watson | 9 episodes | [26] |
| 1988 | Emma: Queen of the South Seas | Jonas Coe | 2 episodes | |
| 1990–1994 | Evening Shade | Evan Evans | 80 episodes | [56] |
| 2000 | The Outer Limits | Justice Oliver Harbison | 2 episodes | [26] |
| Family Law | Judge Richard Lloyd | Episode: "One Mistake" | [26] | |
| 2001–2002 | The West Wing | Assistant Secretary of State Albie Duncan | 2 episodes | [26] |
| 2002 | Becker | Mr. Humphries | Episode: "And the Heartbeat Goes On" | [26] |
| 2003 | Good Morning, Miami | Jim Templeton | 2 episodes | [26] |
| 2005 | Hope & Faith | Edward Shanowski | Episode: "A Room of One's Own" | [26] |
| 2006 | The Sopranos | John Schwinn | Episode: "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" | [26] |
| NCIS | Mickey Stokes | Episode: "Escaped" | [26] | |
| 2008 | ER | Walter Perkins | 2 episodes | [26] |
| 2010–2011 | The Event | James Dempsey | 10 episodes | [26] |
| 2010–2014 | Sons of Anarchy | Nate Madock | 5 episodes | [26] |
| 2013 | Monday Mornings | Dr. Arvin Wayne | Episode: "The Legend and the Fall" | [26] |
| Rectify | Rutherford Gaines | Episode: "Modern Times" | [26] | |
| 2017 | Bones | Red Hudmore | Episode: "The New Tricks in the Old Dogs" | [26] |
| Grey's Anatomy | Dr. Lewis Klatch | Episode: "'Till I Hear It from You" | [42] | |
| Hawaii Five-0 | Leonard Patterson | Episode: "Waimaka 'ele'ele" | [43] |
Awards and nominations[]
Roles[]
(Creepshow)
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Further reading[]
- Holbrook, Hal (1959). "Mark Twain Tonight: An Actor's Portrait". Pyramid.
- Young, Jordan R. (1989). "Acting solo: the art of one-man shows". Moonstone Press.
- Holbrook, Hal (2011). "Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain". Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
External links[]
- Hal Holbrook at the Creepshow Wiki
Hal Holbrook at the Internet Movie Database- Hal Holbrook at the Internet Broadway Database
- Hal Holbrook at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Hal Holbrook discography at Discogs
- Hal Holbrook Papers at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
- Hal Holbrook appearances on C-SPAN
- Hal Holbrook at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
- Hal Holbrook at Find a Grave
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