Hall Holbrook, “All the President’s Men” USA NNDC’s “Deep Throat” | Shows

According to a recent New York Times report, the long-lived and revered American actor Hal Holbrook, who died from the mysterious “Deep Throat” in the film “All the President’s Men” (1976), has passed away.

His assistant, Joyce Cohen, told the newspaper that Holbrook died on January 23 at his residence in Beverly Hills (California, USA).

From theater to film to television, Holbrook (Cleveland, USA, 1925) enjoyed an extensive and highly recognized career in the world of acting.

On the big screen and already in the final stages of his career, he shone with “Into the Wild” (2007), Sean Penn’s extreme adventure film and personal redistribution with which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor .

Holbrook was the oldest artist to receive an Oscar nomination (82 years) at the time, although this statue eventually went to “No Country for Old Men” (2007) for Javier Bardem.

In addition to his time at the Oscars, Holbrook’s best-known film may have been the role of “Deep Throat,” an FBI agent who revealed the key to the Watergate case to reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) . Allan J. Intriguing political and journalistic memorabilia of Pakula’s “All the President’s Men”.

Holbrook trabajó también a Las órdenes de Steven Spielberg (“Lincoln”, 2012), Sydney Pollack (“The Firm”, 1993), Oliver Stone (“Wall Street”, 1987), John Carpenter (“The Fog”, 1980) George A. . Romero (“Creepo”, 1982) o Gus Van Sant (“Promised Land”, 2012).

Regarding his television career, the interpreter won five Emmy Awards for “The Bold Ones: The Senator”, “Lincoln”, “Portrait of America” ​​and “Pueblo” (the latter was a television film that won him two awards).

A classic of small roles in film and television in the US, Holbrook appeared in the final part of his career with sporadic roles such as “The West Wing”, “The Sopranos” or “Sons of Anarchy”.

In any case, his biggest personal victory was “Mark Twain Tonight!” Was on stage with, an acclaimed monologue on the author of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” which Holbrook wrote and then performed with great popularity for decades.

Holbrook took the work to theaters across the US and abroad, in 2017 he decided to leave it after more than sixty years.

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