Hal Holbrook filmography

Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American film, stage and television actor. He was notable for his one-man stage show as Mark Twain.

Holbrook as Mark Twain

Holbrook made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966). He later gained international fame for his performance as Deep Throat in the 1976 film All the President's Men. He played Abraham Lincoln in the 1974 miniseries Lincoln. He has also appeared in such films as Julia (1977), The Fog (1980), Creepshow (1982), Wall Street (1987), The Firm (1993), Hercules (1997), and Men of Honor (2000).

Holbrook's role as Ron Franz in Sean Penn's Into the Wild (2007) earned him both Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.

In his later career, Holbrook appeared as Francis Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), provided his voice as Mayday in the Disney animated film Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014) and as Whizzer in Blackway (2015).

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
1966	The Group	Gus Leroy		[1]
1968	Wild in the Streets	Senator Johnny Fergus		[1]
	The Brotherhood	Man at Table	Uncredited
1970	The People Next Door	David Hoffman
	The Great White Hope	Al Cameron		[2]
1972	They Only Kill Their Masters	Dr. Warren Watkins		[2]
1973	Jonathan Livingston Seagull	The Elder	Uncredited voice
	Magnum Force	Lieutenant Neil Briggs		[1]
1974	The Girl from Petrovka	Joe		[1]
1976	All the President's Men	Deep Throat		[1]
	Midway	Commander Joseph Rochefort		[1]
1977	Rituals	Harry		[1]
	Julia	Alan Campbell		[1]
	Capricorn One	Dr. James Kelloway		[1]
1979	Natural Enemies	Paul Steward		[1]
1980	The Fog	Father Malone		[1]
	The Kidnapping of the President	President Adam Scott		[1]
1982	Creepshow	Henry Northrup	Segment: "The Crate"	[2]
	Girls Nite Out	Jim MacVey	AKA The Scaremaker	[3]
1983	The Star Chamber	Judge Benjamin Caulfield		[3]
1987	Wall Street	Lou Mannheim		[2]
1988	The Unholy	Archbishop Mosely		[2]
1989	Fletch Lives	Hamilton "Ham" Johnson		[3]
1993	The Firm	Oliver Lambert		[2]
1996	Carried Away	Doctor Evans		[3]
1997	Cats Don't Dance	Cranston	Voice	[3]
	Hercules	Amphitryon		[2]
	Eye of God	Sheriff Rogers		[3]
	Trail of Hope: The Story of the Mormon Trail	Narrator	Documentary
1998	Hush	Dr. Franklin Hill		[2]
	Walking to the Waterline	Man on the Beach		[2]
	Judas Kiss	Senator Rupert Hornbeck
	Rusty: A Dog's Tale	Boyd Callahan		[2]
1999	The Florentine	Smitty
	The Bachelor	Roy O'Dell		[3]
2000	Waking the Dead	Isaac Green		[3]
	Men of Honor	Mr. Pappy		[2]
	The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus	Ak – Master Woodsman of the World	Voice	[3]
2001	The Majestic	Congressman Doyle		[2]
2002	Purpose	Tom Walker
	The Seventh Day Series	Himself	Documentary	[3]
2003	Country Music: The Spirit of America	Narrator	IMAX	[4]
	Shade	The Professor		[3]
2007	Into the Wild	Ron Franz		[2]
2008	Killshot	Papa		[3]
2009	That Evening Sun	Abner Meecham		[2]
2010	Flying Lessons	Harry Pleasant
2011	Good Day for It	Hector		[3]
	Water for Elephants	Old Jacob Jankowski		[2]
2012	Lincoln	Francis Preston Blair		[2]
	Promised Land	Frank Yates		[2]
2013	Savannah	Judge Harden		[2]
2014	Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey	Himself	Documentary
	Planes: Fire & Rescue	Mayday	Voice	[2]
2015	Blackway	Whizzer		[3]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref
1954–1959	The Brighter Day	Grayling Dennis #1	Unknown episodes
1955	Mr. Citizen	Don Gallagher	Episode: "Late for Supper"
1966	Preview Tonight	Unknown	Episode: "The Cliff Dwellers"
	The Glass Menagerie	Tom Wingfield	Television film
1967	Mark Twain Tonight!	Mark Twain	TV special	[1]
	Coronet Blue	Carey Thomas	Episode: "Faces"
1967–1968	Off to See the Wizard	Narrator	Unknown episodes
1969	The F.B.I.	Christopher Simes	Episode: "The Fraud"
	The Whole World Is Watching	Chancellor Leonard Graham	Television film
	The Name of the Game	Mayor John Adrian	Episode: "The Perfect Image"
1970	The F.B.I.	Doug McElroy	Episode: "The Target"
	A Clear and Present Danger	Senator Hays Stowe	Television film
	Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color	Mitch Collins	2 episodes
1970–1971	The Bold Ones: The Senator	Senator Hays Stowe	8 episodes	[1]
1971	Travis Logan, D.A.	Matthew Sand	Television film
	Suddenly Single	Larry Hackett
	Goodbye, Raggedy Ann	Harlan Webb
1972	That Certain Summer	Doug Salter		[1]
1973	Pueblo	Commander Lloyd M. Bucher		[1]
1974–1976	Carl Sandburg's Lincoln	Abraham Lincoln	TV miniseries	[1]
1975–1976	Great Performances	Theater in America Host	2 episodes
1976	33 Hours in the Life of God	Dr. Simon Abbott	Television film
1977	Our Town	Stage Manager
1978	The Awakening Land	Portius Wheeler	TV miniseries	[1]
1979	Murder by Natural Causes	Arthur Sinclair	Television film	[1]
	The Legend of the Golden Gun	J. R. Swackhammer		[1]
	When Hell Was in Session	Commander Jeremiah Denton		[1]
1980	Off the Minnesota Strip	Bud Johansen
1981	The Killing of Randy Webster	John Webster		[2]
1983–1988	Portrait of America	Himself	8 episodes	[3]
1984	Celebrity	Calvin Sledge	3 episodes
	George Washington	John Adams	TV miniseries	[3]
	The Three Wishes of Billy Grier	Grandpa Grier	Television film
1985	North and South	Abraham Lincoln	TV miniseries	[3]
	Behind Enemy Lines	Col. Calvin Turner	Television film
1986	Under Siege	President Maxwell Monroe
	Dress Gray	General Charles Hedges	TV miniseries	[3]
	North and South: Book II	Abraham Lincoln		[3]
1986–1989	Designing Women	Reese Watson	9 episodes	[3]
1987	Plaza Suite	Sam Nash	Television film
1988	The Fortunate Pilgrim[3]	Dr. Andrew McKay	TV miniseries	[3]
	I'll Be Home for Christmas	Joseph Bundy	Television film	[3]
	Emma: Queen of the South Seas	Jonas Coe	2 episodes
1989	Day One	George C. Marshall	Television film	[3]
	Sorry, Wrong Number	Jim Coltrane
1990	A Killing in a Small Town	Dr. Beardsley
1990–1994	Evening Shade	Evan Evans	80 episodes	[2]
1993	Bonds of Love	Jim Smith	Television film
1994	A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle	William "Wild Bill" McKenzie
	A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
1995	A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester
	She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal	Adm. Kelso
1996	Innocent Victims	Bob Hennis
1997	Operation Delta Force	Admiral Henshaw
	All the Winters That Have Been	Uncle Ren Corvin
	The Third Twin	Pete
1998	Beauty	Alexander Miller		[3]
	My Own Country	Lloyd Flanders
1999	A Place Apart	Narrator
2000	The Outer Limits	Justice Oliver Harbison	2 episodes	[3]
	Family Law	Judge Richard Lloyd	Episode: "One Mistake"	[3]
2001	Haven	Harold L. Ickes	Television film
	The Legend of the Three Trees	Narrator		[2]
2001–2002	The West Wing	Assistant Secretary of State Albie Duncan	2 episodes	[3]
2002	Becker	Mr. Humphries	Episode: "And the Heartbeat Goes On"	[3]
2003	Good Morning, Miami	Jim Templeton	2 episodes	[3]
	The Street Lawyer	Arthur Jacobs	Television film
2005	Hope & Faith	Edward Shanowski	Episode: "A Room of One's Own"	[3]
2006	The Sopranos	John Schwinn	Episode: "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh"	[3]
	NCIS	Mickey Stokes	Episode: "Escaped"	[3]
2008	ER	Walter Perkins	2 episodes	[3]
2009	Captain Cook's Extraordinary Atlas	Dean Davis Winters	Television film
2010 & 2014	Sons of Anarchy	Nate Madock	5 episodes	[3]
2010–2011	The Event	James Dempsey	10 episodes	[3]
2013	Monday Mornings	Dr. Arvin Wayne	Episode: "The Legend and the Fall"	[3]
	Rectify	Rutherford Gaines	Episode: "Modern Times"	[3]
2017	Bones	Red Hudmore	Episode: "The New Tricks in the Old Dogs"	[3]
	An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story	Reinhold Niebuhr	Voice, television film
	Grey's Anatomy	Dr. Lewis Klatch	Episode: "'Till I Hear It from You"	[5]
	Hawaii Five-0	Leonard Patterson	Episode: "Waimaka 'ele'ele"	[6]