Died: January 23, 2021. HAL Holbrook, who has died aged 95, was a Tony and Emmy award-winning actor who carried a quiet authority in everything he appeared in. This came with added menaces for his iconic cameo in All the President’s Men, Alan J Pakula’s 1976 film about the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency. Holbrook played Deep Throat, the shadowy informant who meets the Washington Post investigative journalist Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) in an underground car park. With Holbrook’s face barely visible in the three brief but intense scenes shared by the pair, Deep Throat teases out his secrets in a cigarette-charged rasp that changes the course of American history.