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Legendary actor, Hal Holbrook has passed away at the age of 95. Holbrook reportedly died back on January 23rd in his Beverly Hills home as revealed by his longtime assistant this week to the New York Times. Holbrook was a multi-Emmy winning actor, playing iconic figures such as Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln; he won a Tony and an Emmy, respectively, for those portrayals. He appeared in numerous films including All the President’s Men and Into the Wild, and starred with Martin Sheen in the groundbreaking 1972 TV movie That Certain Summer, in which they portrayed a gay couple. Holbrook app...

Into the Wild (2007). Wild in the Streets (1968); as the vigilante boss of police inspector Clint Eastwood in Magnum Force (1973); as a NASA exec who engineers a fake Mars landing in Capricorn One (1977); as a judge who takes matters into his own hands in The Star Chamber (1983); and as old-school stockbroker Lou Mannheim in Wall Street (1987). Holbrook played Twain longer than Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who made Twain his pen name in 1863. He first appeared as the famed author and humorist in the late 1940s in a show for school groups; Holbrook’s first wife, Ruby, would ask questions of...

Dignified reserve … Hal Holbrook. Photograph: Phil McCarten/EPA Hal Holbrook, an award-winning actor acclaimed for his one-man portrayal of American literary legend Mark Twain and whose film work included portraying the mysterious Deep Throat in All the President’s Men, has died at the age of 95. Holbrook died on 23 January at his home in Beverly Hills, California, the New York Times reported. His death was confirmed late on Monday by his assistant, Joyce Cohen. In 2008, at age 82, Holbrook became the oldest male performer ever nominated...

Esteemed US actor Hal Holbrook, best known for All the President’s Men, and playing Mark Twain, has died, aged 95. Holbrook died on January 23 in Beverly Hills, his personal assistant, Joyce Cohen, told The New York Times. Holbrook’s career spanned over 60 years and saw him portray Lincoln in the miniseries of the same name and also in the 1980s TV hits North & South and He won four The Bold Ones: The Senator. Amongst many TV credits were George Washington, The West Wing, That Certain Summer, Designing Women, Evening Shade, The Sopranos, Our Town, Sons of Anarchy and The Event.

Tenafly for the 1974-5 season of the Wednesday night edition of the mystery wheel series. In the prime of Columbo, they adapted a new version of Ellery Queen, and in the years following they co-created with Peter S. Fischer both the popular series Murder, She Wrote and the short-lived Blacke's Magic. (After the death of Mr. Levinson, Mr. Link teamed up with David Black to create The Cosby Mysteries.) After the first season of Columbo, Levinson and Link left the daily grind of the series. Though they continued to be involved through conversation with the new producers and with Falk — s...