Oscar-nominated actor Hal Holbrook dies aged 95
Into The Wild (2007), has died aged 95.The actor, who was best known for his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! that was staged globally over six decades, died on January 23 at his home in California, his assistant confirmed yesterday (February 1).As The New York Times notes, some of Holbrook’s most memorable roles are as Deep Throat in All The President’s Men (1976), Republican Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012), Father Malone in John Carpenter’s The Fog (1980), and Ron Franz in 2007’s Into The Wild, for which he received the Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod.Elsewhere, he won an Emmy award for portraying President Lincoln in Carl Sandburg’s 1974 mini series Lincoln and was a regular on the ’80s TV series Designing Women.