

Harold Holbrook Jr., popularly known as Hal Holbrook, is an American actor, director, and writer, best known for his role as ‘Deep Throat’ in the 1976 film ‘All the President’s Men.’ His other films include ‘The Fog’ (1980), ‘Wall Street’ (1987), ‘Men of Honor’ (2000), ‘Into the Wild’ (2007), ‘Lincoln’ (2012), ‘Blackway’ (2015). As a TV actor, he has appeared in shows such as ‘The Bold Ones: The Senator’ (1970-71), ‘Carl Sandburg's Lincoln’ (1974-76), ’Designing Women’ (1986-89), ‘Evening Shade’ (1990-94) ‘ER’ (2008), and ‘Sons of Anarchy’ (2010, 2014).
His portrayal of ‘Mark Twain’ in a one-man stage show, in 1954, earned him a lot of praise and recognition.
As a voice actor, he starred in Disney film ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ (2014). He has won five ‘Primetime Emmy Awards’ and earned an ‘Academy Award’ nomination for his portrayal as ‘Ron Franz’ in ‘Into the Wild.’
Two young reporters, Bon Woodward and Carl Bernstein, from The Washington Post are assigned to cover what seems to be a small story of a failed break-in at the Democratic Party Headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex in 1972. But they uncover a nationwide conspiracy that ultimately, ends with President Nixon’s resignation.
Jon Krakauer’s 1996 non-fiction book - Into the Wild - is the basis of this movie. Christopher McCandless, a young graduate from Emory University, abandons the life of privilege and sets out on a cross country drive to explore the life in wilderness. He meets various people en route who all influence him in their own meaningful way.
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This film is about San Francisco Inspector Harry Callahan who is on the trail of several vigilante police officers who went beyond the law to kill several criminals who were eluding the law.
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln takes you back in time to watch the making of a historic moment as the US President gets the House of Representatives to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution which abolished slavery.
Young and ambitious Wall Street stockbroker Bud Fox idolizes successful but greedy corporate raider Gordon Gekko and trades inside information to get under his wing. Just as Fox begins to earn huge amounts of money by participating in shady deals, Gekko targets the employees' retirement fund of the airlines where Fox's father worked for 24 years.
Exactly a hundred years after the mysterious sinking of a ship, an unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town, which brings with it the vengeful ghosts who were killed during the shipwreck.
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Inspired by true events, the film chronicles the journey of Carl Brashear, the son of a sharecropper, who joins the recently desegregated US Navy to become the first African American master diver. However, he has to overcome his lack of education and battle against his embittered trainer, Billy Sunday, who has been ordered to ensure that Brashear fails.
In 1931, a veterinary student Jacob Jankowski, who is left penniless after his parents’ sudden death, joins a circus as their vet. The volatile, violent circus owner, August Rosenbluth, asks Jake to train the new circus attraction, elephant Rosie, for his wife Marlena to ride. Their compassion for Rosie brings Jake and Marlena closer, but can their love survive possessive August’s ire?
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Set in 1951, an up-and-coming Hollywood screenwriter, Peter Appleton, is accused of being a communist. An accident after getting drunk, results in amnesia. Found near town of Lawson, he is mistaken as the MIA son of the community. He brings life to the town and rebuilds movie theater, the Majestic. As he regains his memory, the authorities also come looking for him.
Harvard Law graduate, Mitch McDeere,lands a high paying job at the Bendini, Lambert & Locke firm, only to realize that the firm helps to launder mob money. As Mitch tries to find proof and break out of the firm’s grips, he finds his and his wife’s lives threatened by the firm and the mob.
Police chief, Abel Marsh, returns from a holiday to find divorcée Jenny Campbell having been killed by her pet Doberman, Murphy. But further investigations that Murphy is innocent and Jenny was drowned. As Jenny’s multiple affairs are revealed more people in the town become suspects.
Vince Ginetta marries Emma, daughter of mob boss, Dominick Bertolo. Vince’s brother, Frank, is also a Mafia Don. Dominick dies of heart attack when he realizes Frank wants to kill him as revenge for betraying the mob. Now the new board of organized crime has sent Vince to kill Frank who is hiding in Sicily.
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Ignoring his Secret Service agent's warnings, US President Adam Scott carries on with a state visit to Canada. He is soon kidnapped by a South American terrorist who keeps the president captive in an armored truck packed with timed explosives.
When sent on an assignment to the Soviet Union, American news correspondent Joe meets and falls in love with lively Russian ballet dancer Oktyabrina, who reciprocates his feelings. But the ballerina is under surveillance of the Soviet police as she is living illegally without proper documents. Consequently, as their deepening love draws the two closer, the KGB tries to pull them apart.
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The Disney adaptation tells the story of Hercules, son of Zeus and Hera, who is kidnapped by Hades and forced to live as half-human, half-god amongst the mortals. As Hercules grows up, he must regain the right to live amongst the Gods in Olympus, defeat Hades, and save the love of his life, Megara.
Hal Holbrook Awards
Portrait of America | Outstanding Performance in Informational Programming | 1989 |
Lincoln | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series | 1976 |
Pueblo | Best Lead Actor in a Drama | 1974 |
Pueblo | Actor of the Year - Special | 1974 |
The Bold Ones: The Senator | Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series | 1971 |