Actor Philip Baker Hall, known for Magnolia and Seinfeld, dies at 90
msn.comhe wrote. “He was surrounded by loved ones. The world has an empty space in it. ”Defined as a storied character actor, Hall started out on stage in New York before embarking on a Hollywood career in the 1970s with small roles in Coma and on TV shows such as M*A*S*H and Good Times. “When I first came out here, I was totally naive.
I didn’t know where to start,” Hall said to the Washington Post. “Television really had no meaning for me. We never had a television.
I didn’t see myself doing a movie. Ever. It didn’t seem possible or likely. ”But Hall continued to find work throughout the 80s with roles in Ghostbusters II, Midnight Run and Say Anything and in the 90s with Air Force One, The Rock and The Truman Show.
He became friends with Paul Thomas Anderson when the young director was working as a production assistant on a PBS movie. Anderson then gave him roles in Hard Eight, Boogie Nights and Magnolia, which led to even more work for Hall in the following decades.
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