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Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook

Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. (born 17 Februar 1925) is an American movie, televeesion, stage an voice actor. Holbrook is kent tae the general audience for playin famous author Mark Twain in plays or on biographical shaws.

Holbrook wis born in Cleveland, Ohio. He began actin in 1954. He began his Mark Twain routine, so that he can earn money. Holbrook soon began appearin on plays. He then callit his Twain shaw Mark Twain Tonight. He is an aa kent for his feectional-poleetical shaws an as "Deep Throat" in Aw the Preses's Men. He an aa playit Abraham Lincoln in several biographical televeesion movies.

Holbrook first appearit in movies in 1966, in The Group. Efter this, he appearit in twa mair movies: Magnum Force in 1973 an Aw the Preses's Men in 1976. Later, he appearit in The Fog, Wall Street, Hercules, The Bachelor, an in Walking the Dead. He is an aa kent for his role in the 2007 movie Into the Wild, for which he wis nominatit for a Screen Actors Guild Awaird an an Academy Awaird. He an aa appearit in Water for Elephants in 2011. Later he haes appeared as Francis Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg's film Lincoln in 2012. Holbrook wis nominatit for many awairds durin his career. He is the auldest actor tae hae nominatit for an Academy Awaird for Best Supportin Actor.

Holbrook nou lives in his wife, Dixie Carter's home, McLemoresville, Tennessee an in Beverly Hills, Californie.