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 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...See more

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 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 . See less