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Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain (1959)
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According to the New York Times, the award-winning US actor Hal Holbrook died at the age of 95.
He was already different on January 23rd in his house in Beverly Hills, California, the newspaper quoted his assistant Joyce Cohen on Monday evening.
The Associated Press news agency also reported on Holbrook's death and referred to information from his spokesman Steve Rohr.
The cause of death was initially unknown.
Holbrook was particularly famous in the USA for portraying the US writer Mark Twain in a one-man show he designed, for which he received the 1966 Tony Theater Award for Best Actor.
He played for President Dwight D. Eisenhower and toured the world on the show with the support of the State Department.
There were also various television films and TV series such as "Lincoln" in 1974, in which Holbrook played the former US President Abraham Lincoln.
For this and other representations on TV, he received a total of five Emmy Awards, the US television award.
Holbrook was also often featured on the screen.
He was one of those actors who gave supporting roles a huge presence.
Among other things, Hal Holbrook portrayed the mysterious Watergate scandal source »Deep Throat« in the film »The Incorruptible«.
Holbrook also played prominent supporting roles in Oliver Stone's “Wall Street”, John Carpenter's “The Fog” or, most recently, in Gus van Sant's fracking drama “Promised Land” in 2013.
An Oscar nomination - in the best supporting actor category, of course - earned him his role as a fatherly friend in the dropout drama "Into the Wild" (2007).
At 82, he was the oldest male nominee in the history of film awards.
Holbrook was married to actress Dixie Carter (star of the TV series "Designing Women", supporting role in "Desperate Housewives") from 1984 until her death in 2010, his third wife.
In 2009 both played together in the film "That Evening Sun".
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