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Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook (1925-2021) was an award-winning, celebrated film, television, and stage actor. His one-man play Mark Twain Tonight! featured Holbrook portraying the famous author in ...view moreHal Holbrook (1925-2021) was an award-winning, celebrated film, television, and stage actor. His one-man play Mark Twain Tonight! featured Holbrook portraying the famous author in a touring production starting in 1959 that played across the United States and in Europe. He won a Tony Award for his performance during the show’s Broadway run in 1966, and continued playing Twain on tours for more than sixty years.
The recipient of five prime-time Emmy Awards for acting, including as Abraham Lincoln in Sandberg’s Lincoln mini-series, he received an Academy Award-nomination for his role in Into the Wild. Holbrook also appeared in such films as All the President’s Men, Midway, Magnum Force, Wall Street, The Firm, and Lincoln. He had a recurring role on the sitcom Evening Shade, and appeared on such television shows as Hawaii Five-0, Grey’s Anatomy, Sons of Anarchy, and The Sopranos.view less