Hal Holbrook Net Worth

Hal Holbrook's Quotes

• On stage your job as actor is to present and show the story by your behavior, body language, and vocal work. In film, you musn't. You just have to be. You are...and it's mostly intuitive. The amount of characterization you do is very minimal. In fact, you try not to act at all. It's actually better that way, and it's taken me years to learn that.
• Most everybody today that's young is operating under the insane idea that what we've got going on is the best that there is. But it's not. Current entertainment is cheap, shoddy, infantile, adolescent, not grown-up. We're fed imagery that's really pornographic, by people with an infantile idea of sexuality. It's a sad and depressing thing.
• Mark Twain is something precious to me. It's my side arm through life.
• On returning to theatre a month after his then wife Dixie Carter had died: I canceled five shows because of what was going on. I flew to L.A. to do Thousand Oaks and turned on my cellphone and heard that Dixie had another stroke on top of the cancer and I turned right around on Southwest. Look ... I need to work. If I don't work, I could sit down and contemplate suicide. My wife was no quitter ... she would be telling me to get out there to do my work and that's what I'm doing.

Interesting Facts about Hal Holbrook

1. Two children, Victoria Holbrook and David Holbrook, with Ruby Holbrook.
2. One daughter, Eve, with Carol Eve Rossen.
3. In his guest appearance on The West Wing (1999), his character first describes the fate of the USS Pueblo, an intelligence gathering surface vessel, caught spying by North Korea in 1968, while referring to the fictional USS Portland. In 1973's Pueblo (1973), Holbrook portrayed the lead character.
4. He was just 29 when he began touring his one-man show of the elderly Mark Twain, even performing for President Dwight D. Eisenhower at one point. In June 2005, he returned his "Mark Twain Tonight" to Broadway for a sold-out, month-long run, receiving rave reviews from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
5. He was a 1948 graduate of Denison University (Granville, Ohio).
6. He starred in two projects based on John Grisham books, The Firm (1993) and The Street Lawyer (2003).
7. Ex-brother-in-law of Ellen Rossen and Robert Rossen.
8. Stepfather of Mary Dixie Carter and Ginna Carter.
9. In 2008, at age 82, he became the oldest male actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. His nomination displaced Ralph Richardson, who previously held that distinction.
10. Portrayed Abraham Lincoln in Toast of the Town (1948), Lincoln (1974), North and South (1985), and North and South, Book II (1986).
11. Won the 1966 Tony Award (New York City) for Actor in a Drama for "Mark Twain Tonight".
12. Served in the Army during WWII, and acted in some plays where he was stationed.
13. He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
14. The only actor (so far) to win an Emmy Award for having played Abraham Lincoln.
15. After his numerous portrayals of Abraham Lincoln, one of which won him an Emmy, he played a supporting role in Lincoln (2012), for which Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar.
16. He had appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: All the President's Men (1976), Julia (1977), and Lincoln (2012).
17. The Hal Holbrook Theatre is located in the Dixie Performing Arts Center in Huntingdon, Tennessee. The Dixie was named in honor of his wife, Dixie Carter, who was from McLemoresville, a nearby town in northwest Tennessee.
18. Part-time Denison University instructor, and banker, Everett D. Reese reportedly bought Holbrook his first white Mark Twain suit.
19. Has two grandchildren, and two step-grandchildren.