'All the President's Men' One of journalists without nonsense
Hal Holbrook, legendary American actor who was nominated for an Oscar in 2007 as best supporting actor for
Into the Wild
, has died at the age of 95.
The interpreter, who according to his personal assistant, Joyce Cohen, to
The New York Times
, died on January 23 at his home in Berberly Hills, he
played Deep Throat
in
All the President's Men
and also appeared in small roles in series more recent as popular as
The Sopranos
,
The West Wing of the White House
or
Sons of Anarchy
.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 17, 1925, Hal Holbrook built a solid career in the world of acting for decades, alternating between film, television and theater.
It was in this last discipline where he went down in history with
Mark Twain ronight!
, a monologue about the legendary author of
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
written by Holbrook himself and which he has been performing, with enormous success, for more than 60 years in theaters around the world.
On the big screen he worked under the orders of great directors such as Sidney Lumet in
The Group
(1966), Fred Zinnemann in
Julia
(1966), John Carpenter in
The Fog
(1980), George A. Romero in
Creepshow
(1982), Oliver Stone on
Wall Street
(1987), Sydney Pollack in
The Cover
(1993), Gus Van Sant in
Promised Land
(2012) or Steven Spielberg in
Lincoln
(2012).
But without a doubt, his most memorable works in the cinema were, first that of the confidant who uncovered the
Watergate
Deep Throat
case
'with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in the
political
thriller
All the President's Men
of 1976 directed by Alan J. Pakula , and later his role in
Wild Routes
, a film directed by Sean Penn in 2007 with which he received his only Oscar nomination for best supporting actor and became, at the age of 82,
the oldest actor to qualify for the award
.
An award that finally went to Javier Bardem for his role as serial murderer Anton Chigurh in
No Country for Old Men
by the Cohen brothers.
In his long career, Holbrook also accumulated notable titles on the small screen, with very prominent works that earned him no more and no less than five Emmy Awards for
The Daring: The Senator
(1970),
Lincoln
(1974),
Portrait of America
( 1983) and two for the telefilm
Pueblo
(1973).
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