Hal Holbrook

Nacimiento
17 de febrero de 1925 · Cleveland, Ohio, Estados Unidos
Defunción
23 de enero de 2021 · Beverly Hills, California, Estados Unidos (causa no comunicada)
Nombre de nacimiento
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr.
Altura
1.83 m

In 2008, at age 82, he became the oldest male actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. His nomination displaced Ralph Richardson, who previously held that distinction.
Served in the Army during WWII, and acted in some plays where he was stationed.
He was just 29 when he began touring his one-man show of the elderly Mark Twain, even performing for President Dwight D. Eisenhower at one point. In June 2005, he returned his "Mark Twain Tonight" to Broadway for a sold-out, month-long run, receiving rave reviews from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
After his numerous portrayals of Abraham Lincoln, one of which won him an Emmy, he played a supporting role in Lincoln (2012), for which Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar.
He was a 1948 graduate of Denison University (Granville, Ohio).

On stage your job as actor is to present and show the story by your behavior, body language, and vocal work. In film, you musn't. You just have to be. You are...and it's mostly intuitive. The amount of characterization you do is very minimal. In fact, you try not to act at all. It's actually better that way, and it's taken me years to learn that.
Most everybody today that's young is operating under the insane idea that what we've got going on is the best that there is. But it's not. Current entertainment is cheap, shoddy, infantile, adolescent, not grown-up. We're fed imagery that's really pornographic, by people with an infantile idea of sexuality. It's a sad and depressing thing.
Mark Twain is something precious to me. It's my side arm through life.
On returning to theatre a month after his then wife Dixie Carter had died: I canceled five shows because of what was going on. I flew to L.A. to do Thousand Oaks and turned on my cellphone and heard that Dixie had another stroke on top of the cancer and I turned right around on Southwest. Look ... I need to work. If I don't work, I could sit down and contemplate suicide. My wife was no quitter ... she would be telling me to get out there to do my work and that's what I'm doing.