Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. was born on the 17th February 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio USA, and is an actor, known for roles including Hays Stowe in “The Bold Ones: The Senator” (1970 – 1971), Captain Lloyd Bucher in “Pueblo” (1973) and Abraham Lincoln landed in the miniseries “Lincoln” (1976). He is also known for his role in the film “Into the Wild” (2007) which earned him the Oscar for the Best Supporting Actor. Holbrook has been active in the entertainment industry since 1954.
How much is the net worth of Hal Holbrook? It has been reported by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $5 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2017. Films and television are the main sources of Holbrook’s modest fortune.
Hal Holbrook Net Worth $5 Million
To begin with, the boy was raised by grandparents, when is parents left him and two sisters, so grew up in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. In the summer of 1942, he obtained his first paid role in “The Man Who Came to Dinner” in the Cain Park Theatre of Cleveland. Hal graduated from Culver Academy and Denison University, but during World War II he served in the US Army and was stationed in Newfoundland.
His acting career really began in 1950 on Broadway, with the pieces of Mark Twain with his one-man show “Mark Twain Tonight”. In 1959, he was rewarded for the “Mark Twain Show” and in 1966 he won a Tony Award. In 1967, he starred in the show in a 90-minute CBS special, for which he was nominated for an Emmy after being watched by 22 million viewers; in fact he has never stopped playing Mark Twain. He toured the world in 1985 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the character, which began in London and ended in New Delhi. In 1970, he starred in the controversial series “The Senator”, winner of eight Emmy Awards. Since then, he has worked on 50 telefilms and miniseries and has been nominated for 12 Emmy Awards, among them were the series “The Senator” (1971), “Pueblo” (1974) and “Lincoln” (1976). He has been a guest artist in “The West Wing” (2001 – 2002), “Becker” (2002), “Hope & Faith” (2005), “The Sopranos” (2006) among many others.
His first role in a feature film was landed in “The Group” in 1966, at age 41. Since then, he has worked in some 40 films, including “All the President’s Men” (1976), “Wall Street” (1987), “The Bachelor” (1999), “Water for Elephants” (2011) and manymore.
During his long spanned career, Holbrook won a number of awards; among others, in 1996 he was awarded the Edwin Booth Prize and the William Shakespeare Prize of the Shakespeare Theatre based in Washington DC in 1998. In 2000, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in New York, and in 2003 he was awarded the National Medal of Letters by President Bush.
Finally, in the personal life of the actor, Hal has been married three times. His first wife was Ruby Holbrook, for 20 years until 1965 – they have a son and a daughter. In 1966, Holbrook married Carol Eve Rossen, nd they have a daughter but divorced in 1983. In 1984, the actor married Dixie Carter with whom he lived until her death in 2010. He now lives in Beverley Hills, California.
Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play (1966), Primetime Emmy Awards, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance (1959), Obie Award for Special Citations, Outer Critics Circle Award for Special Citations (1959), New York Drama Critics' Circle Special Citation (1966)
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, Crit...
Movies
“All the President's Men” (1976), “Wall Street” (1987), “The Bachelor” (1999), “Water for Elephants” (2011), “The Man Who Came to Dinner” (1942), “Into the Wild” (2007), “Pueblo” (1973), “Magnum Force” (1973), “Becker” (2002), “Hope & Faith” (2005), “The Sop...
TV Shows
“The Bold Ones: The Senator” (1970-1971), “Lincoln” (1976), “Mark Twain Tonight” (1950), “Mark Twain Show” (1966), “The West Wing” (2001 – 2002)
Mark Twain is something precious to me. It's my side arm through life.
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Most everybody today that's young is operating under the insane idea that what we've got going on is the best that there is. But it's not. Current entertainment is cheap, shoddy, infantile, adolescent, not grown-up. We're fed imagery that's really pornographic, by people with an infantile idea of sexuality. It's a sad and depressing thing.
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On stage your job as actor is to present and show the story by your behavior, body language, and vocal work. In film, you musn't. You just have to be. You are...and it's mostly intuitive. The amount of characterization you do is very minimal. In fact, you try not to act at all. It's actually better that way, and it's taken me years to learn that.
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Fact
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As of 2014, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: All the President's Men (1976), Julia (1977) and Lincoln (2012).
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After his numerous portrayals of Abraham Lincoln, one of which won him an Emmy, he played a supporting role in Lincoln (2012), for which Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar.
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The only actor (so far) to win an Emmy Award for having played Abraham Lincoln.
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He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
In 2008, at age 82, he became the oldest male actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. His nomination displaced Ralph Richardson, who previously held that distinction.
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Fans consider his 1968 live stage performance of "I Never Sang for My Father" one of his best, seldom mentioned acts. Before the motion picture of the same name was released two years later, starring Gene Hackman.
He is a 1948 graduate of Denison University (Granville, Ohio)
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He was just 29 when he began touring his one-man show of the elderly Mark Twain, even performing for President Dwight D. 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.
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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), Holbrook portrayed the lead character.
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