Actor, writer, and director Hal Holbrook has died. The five-time Emmy winner passed away Jan. 23 in Beverly Hills, his personal assistant, Joyce Cohen, told The New York Times on Monday night; though no cause of death was given at the time of the announcement. He was 95.
Holbrook was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised by his grandparents. While attending Denison University, where he worked on an honors project about Mark Twain that inspired him to create his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight!, which he would perform for six decades. His passion project eventually made its way to Broadway in 1966 (winning Holbrook a Tony) and onto CBS as a televised special in 1967 (resulting in Holbrook’s first Emmy nomination). Throughout his career—which included memorable roles in films like Wild in the Streets, Magnum Force, All the President’s Men, and Wall Street; as well as appearances on TV series such as his late wife Dixie Carter’s Designing Women, The Sopranos, Sons of Anarchy, Grey’s Anatomy—the actor continued to tour his production of Mark Twain Tonight! until his retirement in 2017 at the age of 92.
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