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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

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'

Midway

1976
as Cmdr. Joseph Rochefort

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)

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

Under Siege

1986
as President Maxwell Monroe

Carried Away

1996
as Doctor Evans

Creepshow

1982
as Henry Northrup (segment "The Crate")

Travis Logan, D.A.

1971
as Matthew Sand

Tartuffe

1978
as Hal Holbrook

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

Hush

1998
as Dr. Franklin Hill

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

When Hell Was in Session

1979
as Cmdr. Jeremiah A. Denton

Promised Land

2012
as Frank Yates

Murder by Natural Causes

1979
as Arthur Sinclair

Purpose

2002
as Tom Walker

The Unholy

1988
as Archbishop Mosely

Eye of God

1997
as Sheriff Rogers

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

The Firm

1993
as Oliver Lambert

The Group

1966
as Gus Leroy

Julia

1977
as Alan

The Street Lawyer

as Arthur Jacobs

Girls Nite Out

1982
as Jim MacVey

Savannah

2013
as Judge Harden

Wild in the Streets

1968
as Sen. Johnny Fergus

The Bachelor

1999
as Roy O'Dell

Bonds of Love

1993
as Jim Smith

The Florentine

1999
as Smitty

The Legend of the Golden Gun

1979
as J.R. Swackhammer

Operation Delta Force

1997
as Admiral Henshaw

The Fog

1980
as Father Malone

Writer

Movie Mark Twain Tonight! 1967

Crew

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