Hal Holbrook, best known for playing Mark Twain, dead at 95
KATE FELDMAN
Hal Holbrook, the Emmy- and Tony-winning actor who put on a one-man stage show as Mark Twain, has died.
He was 95.
Holbrook died on Jan. 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, his assistant told the New York Times Monday. A cause of death has not been revealed.
His one-man play “Mark Twain Tonight!,” which he wrote in the ’50s, took Holbrook to Broadway in 1966, where he won a Tony for best performance by a leading actor in a play. A televised broadcast of the show later earned him an Emmy nomination.
Actor Hal Holbrook has died.
Actor Hal Holbrook has died. (ROBYN BECK/)
Holbrook won his first Emmy in 1970 for his role as the title character in the short-lived series “The Bold Ones: The Senator,” and another in 1976, for playing the 16th president of the United States in the NBC miniseries “Lincoln.”
In total, he snagged five Emmy awards and five other nominations in a TV career that also included “The West Wing” and “Designing Women.”
On the big screen, Holbrook played the infamous Deep Throat in “All the President’s Men,” a conservative Republican congressman in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” and a cautionary stock broker in “Wall Street.”
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In 2008, he earned an Oscar nomination for supporting actor for his role in “Into the Wild.” At 82, he was the oldest actor to ever be nominated at the time.
Holbrook is survived by his children, Victoria, David and Eve, two stepdaughters, two grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.
