Hal Holbrook performed his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight for more than sixty years, winning a Tony for it, which is probably the longest a single actor has inhabited one historical figure.
On screen he specialised in men of quiet institutional authority, in All the President’s Men as Deep Throat, in The Fog, and in Magnum Force.
He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at eighty-two for Into the Wild, becoming the oldest nominee in that category at the time, for a performance of about fifteen minutes.
He worked heavily in television and continued acting into his nineties.
Catherine KeenerInto the Wild (2007) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Sean Penn adapts Krakauer's account of Chris McCandless walking into Alaska and dying there, and the film admires him considerably more than the book does. Hal Holbrook…
Adrienne BarbeauJohn Carpenter directs the story of a California coastal town haunted by the vengeful ghosts of mariners killed a century earlier. The Fog is John Carpenter's 1980 American horror film depicting a California coastal town haunted on its centennial by…
Andrew RobinsonThe original and Magnum Force are essential. Foundational American police thriller cinema.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Charlton HestonTwo substantial adaptations of the Battle of Midway. 1976 ensemble approach with Charlton Heston and Toshiro Mifune.
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