Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook Holbrook in the 1977 TV adaptation of the play Our Town. Born Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr. (1925-02-17) February 17, 1925 (age 89) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. Nationality American Education Culver Academies Alma mater Denison University Occupation Actor Years active 1954–present Notable work(s) Mark Twain Tonight Into the Wild The Fog All the President's Men Wall Street Water for Elephants Fletch Lives Magnum Force The Star Chamber Capricorn One The Firm Girls Nite Out Spouse(s) Ruby Holbrook (1945–1965) Carol Eve Rossen (1966–1979) Dixie Carter (1984–2010; her death) Children 3 Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr. (born February 17, 1925) is an American film and stage actor. Holbrook initially gained notoriety for a one-man stage show he developed while in college in 1954, performing as Mark Twain, and made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966). He later gained international fame for his performance as Deep Throat in the 1976 film All the President's Men, followed by roles in the 1976 television series, Lincoln, Julia (1977), The Fog (1980), and Creepshow (1982). Holbrook's later career has included roles in Into the Wild (2007), for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award, as well as a recurring role on the FX series Sons of Anarchy, and as Francis Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012).