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Hal Holbrook, who played Mark Twain for over 60 years, passes away

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has died aged 95. The beloved actor passed away at his home in Beverly Hills, California on Monday night, his personal assistant Joyce Cohen confirmed to The New York Times.

Over the course of his successful six-decade spanning career, Hal earned five Emmy Awards. In 2007 he became the oldest man to earn an Oscar nomination at the age of 82, for his performance in Into the Wild.

Holbrook was born in February 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Denison University where he first portrayed Mark Twain. He enrolled in an honors program about the famed American writer at the university, which lead him to create a one-man show entitled Mark Twain Tonight.

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