Hal Holbrook - Biography

Last Editor: VICKIENRED				Hal Holbrook Biography -   Name : Hal Holbrook Profession : Actor Birth Details : born February 17, 1925 Birth name : Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. Height : 6' 1'' Spouse : Dixie Carter (27 May 1984 - present) Carol Eve Rossen (28 December 1966 - 1979) (divorced) 1 child Ruby Holbrook (22 September 1945 - 1965) (divorc

Hal Holbrook Trivia -

Two children, Victoria Holbrook and David Holbrook, with Ruby Holbrook. One daughter, Eve, with Carol Eve Rossen. In his guest appearance on "The West Wing" (1999), his character first describes the fate of the USS Pueblo, an intelligence gathering surface vessel, caught spying by North Korea in 1968, while referring to the fictional USS Portland. In 1973's Pueblo (1973) (TV), Holbrook portrayed the lead character. He was just 29 when he began touring his one-man show of the elderly Mark Twain, even performing for President 'Dwight Eisenhower' at one point. In June 2005, he returned his "Mark Twain Tonight" to Broadway for a sold out, month-long run, receiving rave reviews from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. He is a 1948 graduate of Denison University (Granville, Ohio) Has starred in two projects based on John Grisham books with The Firm (1993) and The Street Lawyer (2003) (TV). Ex-brother-in-law of Ellen Rossen. Ex-son-in-law of Robert Rossen.

Hal Holbrook Detailed Biography -

Hal Holbrook (born February 17, 1925) is an American actor. He was born Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr. in Cleveland, Ohio, and was mostly raised in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Holbrook is a graduate of Denison University, where an honors project about Mark Twain led him to develop the one man show he is best known for, a series of performances called Mark Twain Tonight. According to Playbill, Holbrook's first solo performance as Twain was at Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania in 1954. Ed Sullivan saw him and gave Holbrook his first national exposure on his February 12, 1956 show. The State Department even sent him on a European tour, which included pioneering appearances behind the Iron Curtain. Holbrook's Twain appeared on Broadway in 1966, and returned in 1977 and 2005; Holbrook was 80 during his most recent Broadway run, older (for the first time) than the character he was portraying. Mark Twain Tonight has repeatedly toured across the country in what as of 2005 has amounted to over 2000 performances. In 1976, Holbrook won further acclaim for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in a series of television specials based on Carl Sandburg's acclaimed biography. He has also starred in many films and TV programs. Early in his career he worked on stage and in a television soap opera, The Brighter Day. Holbrook is also famous for his role as the enigmatic Deep Throat (whose identity was unknown at the time) in the film All the President's Men. In 1979, he starred as Jeremiah Denton in the NBC television movie "When Hell was in Session". Holbrook is married to actress Dixie Carter and guest-starred in several episodes of her series Designing Women, until his character was killed off to provide new storylines for Carter's character.