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Hal Holbrook, Actor Who Channeled Mark Twain, Is Dead at 95 He carved out a substantial career in television and film but achieved the widest acclaim with his one-man stage show, playing Twain for more than six decades. Hal Holbrook on stage as Mark Twain in 2005. Mr. Holbrook was 29 when he started playing Twain at 70; as he grew older, he found he needed less and less makeup to look elderly.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times By Robert Berkvist Feb. 2, 2021 Hal Holbrook, who carved out ...

Hal Holbrook, actor who channeled Mark Twain, dies at 95 He was the shadowy patriot Deep Throat in "All the Presidents Men" and an achingly grandfatherly character in "Into the Wild," for which he received an Oscar nomination.  By Robert Berkvist New York Times Febr...

Hal Holbrook, who carved out a substantial acting career in television and film but who achieved his widest acclaim onstage, embodying Mark Twain in all his craggy splendour and vinegary wit in a one-man show seen around the world, died Jan. 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was 95. His death was confirmed by his assistant, Joyce Cohen, on Monday night. Holbrook had a long and fruitful run as an actor. He was the shadowy patriot Deep Throat in “All the President’s Men” (1976...

“George Washington.” “If you know more about me than I do, what do you ask me for?” The patients stared straight ahead — “No one was looking at us,” Hal Holbrook wrote — and guffawed at the laugh lines, proving that “the guys in the ward were saner than they looked” and that the material had legs. The Twain piece became their most popular sketch over the next four years, as the couple crisscrossed the country performing for schoolchildren, ladies’ clubs, college students a...