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Hal Holbrook (Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr.) was born on 17 February, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, is an actor,director,writer. Discover Hal Holbrook's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 96 years old?

Popular As Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr.
Occupation actor,director,writer
Age 96 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 17 February 1925
Birthday 17 February
Birthplace Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Date of death 23 January, 2021
Died Place Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Hal Holbrook Height, Weight & Measurements

At 96 years old, Hal Holbrook height is 6' (1.83 m) .

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Height 6' (1.83 m)
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Who Is Hal Holbrook's Wife?

His wife is Dixie Carter (27 May 1984 - 10 April 2010) ( her death), Carol Eve Rossen (28 December 1966 - 14 June 1983) ( divorced) ( 1 child), Ruby Holbrook (21 September 1945 - 1965) ( divorced) ( 2 children)

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Wife Dixie Carter (27 May 1984 - 10 April 2010) ( her death), Carol Eve Rossen (28 December 1966 - 14 June 1983) ( divorced) ( 1 child), Ruby Holbrook (21 September 1945 - 1965) ( divorced) ( 2 children)
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Hal Holbrook Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Hal Holbrook worth at the age of 96 years old? Hal Holbrook’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Hal Holbrook's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Rituals (1977)$100,000

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Timeline

1925

on February 17, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Eileen (Davenport), a vaudeville dancer, and Harold Rowe Holbrook, Sr. Raised primarily in South Weymouth, Mass. by his paternal grandparents, Holbrook attended the Culver Academies. During World War II, Holbrook served in the Army in Newfoundland.

1948

After the war, he attended Denison University, graduating in 1948. While at Denison, Holbrook's senior honors project concerned Mark Twain. He later developed "Mark Twain Tonight!," the one-man show in which he impersonates the great American writer Mark Twain, a. k. a. Samuel Clemens.

1954

Holbrook learned his craft on the boards and by appearing in the TV soap opera The Brighter Day (1954).

He first played Mark Twain as a solo act in 1954, at Lock Haven State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. The show was a success that created a buzz.

1956

After seeing the performance, Ed Sullivan, the host of TV's premier variety show, featured him on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) on February 12, 1956. This lead to an international tour sponsored by the U. S. Department of State, which included appearances in Iron Curtain countries.

1959

Holbrook brought the show to Off-Broadway in 1959. He even played Mark Twain for President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

1966

The 1966 "Mark Twain Tonight" Broadway production brought Holbrook even more acclaim, and the Tony Award. The show was taped and Holbrook won an Emmy nomination.

1970

Hal Holbrook was an Emmy- and Tony-Award winning actor who was one of the great craftsmen of stage and screen. He was best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy Award nominations. Aside from the stage, Holbrook made his reputation primarily on television, and was memorable as Abraham Lincoln, as Senator Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator (1970) and as Capt.

1972

Among Holbrook's more famous roles was "The Major" in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's "Incident at Vichy", as Martin Sheen's significant other in the controversial and acclaimed TV movie That Certain Summer (1972), the first TV movie to sympathetically portray homosexuality, and as Abraham Lincoln in a TV special based on Carl Sandburg's acclaimed biography of the 16th President.

1973

Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo (1973).

All of these roles brought him Emmy Awards, with Pueblo (1973) bringing him two, as Best Lead Actor in a Drama and Actor of the Year - Special.

1976

He also is known for his portrayal of the enigmatic "Deep Throat" in All the President's Men (1976), one of the major cinema events of the mid-'70s.

1977

He reprised the show on Broadway in 1977 and in 2005. By that time, he had played Samuel Clemens on stage over 2,000 times.

1993

He starred in two projects based on John Grisham books, The Firm (1993) and The Street Lawyer (2003).

1999

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.

2005

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.

2008

On January 22, 2008, he became the oldest male performer ever nominated for a an Academy Award, for his supporting turn in Into the Wild (2007). He was born Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr.

2012

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.