Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook ( Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. actually ) ( born February 17, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio ) is an American actor.
Life and work
Hal Holbrook graduated from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Here he developed a one-man show about Mark Twain, for which he was awarded the Tony Award for Best Actor in 1966.
Hal Holbrook has for decades been the well-known American character actors and entered in several classic films profiled in secondary roles. He had one of his most important appearances in 1976 in the Watergate movie The Untouchables as an anonymous informant Deep Throat.
Holbrooks perhaps most famous role is that of the priest Father Malone in The Fog Horror - The Fog (1980 ) evokes the murky past of the town Antonio Bay. Overall, he was seen since the mid-1950s to more than 120 film and television productions.
Hal Holbrook was married three times. From his first marriage from 1945 to 1965 with Ruby Johnson children Victoria and David Holbrook come. After that, he was married to Carol Eve Rossen 1966-1979. From this marriage the daughter Eve Holbrook emerged. Until her death on 10 April 2010, he was married to his third marriage to actress Dixie Carter.
Awards
1971 Holbrook won the Golden Apple Award. 2003, the National Humanities Medal, he was awarded. For his role in Into the Wild 2008 Holbrook was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2008. With the same film Holbrook took second place for Best Supporting Actor at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.