Hal Holbrook
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"Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook, Jr." is an United States/American film and theater/stage actor. Holbrook initially gained notoriety for a one-man show/one-man stage show he developed while in college in 1954, performing as Mark Twain, and made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's The Group (film)/The Group (1966). He later gained international fame for his performance as Deep Throat (Watergate)/Deep Throat in the 1976 film All the President's Men, followed by roles in the 1976 television series, Lincoln, Julia (1977 film)/Julia (1977), The Fog (film)/The Fog (1980), and Creepshow (1982).

Holbrook's later career has included roles in Into the Wild (film)/Into the Wild (2007), for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award, as well as a recurring role on the FX Networks/FX series Sons of Anarchy, and as Francis Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012 film)/Lincoln (2012).

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He said he had this play and asked if I'd read it, ... I liked it a lot and told him that I'd do it. At the same time, it occurred to me, 'You know, Dixie would be wonderful for this.' .

It disturbed me deeply.

I threw up on the airplane coming back from Tennessee, ... I don't know if it's a bug I caught on the plane or fear. It could be nerves. Till we get that first preview audience, we don't even know where our laughs are.

And I'm a very irascible, bullheaded Scot who takes an instant dislike to her.

All the President?s Men.

I never dreamed the kind of response I would get from the New York critics. It was an unbelievable success.