told The New York Times on Monday night. He was 95. Over his long career, Hobrook won five Emmys, was nominated for an Oscar at age 82 for his role in Into the Wild, and played Deep Throat in All the President's Men, a wizened stockbroker in Wall Street, and influential Republican Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. "But above all he was Mark Twain, standing alone onstage in a rumpled white linen suit, spinning an omnisciently pungent, incisive, and humane narration of the human comedy," the Times recounts.
Holbrook added the Mark Twain character to his roster of "Great Personalities" in 1947, when his mentor at Ohio's Dennison University, Edward Wright, convinced him to. "Ed, I think this Mark Twain thing is pretty corny," he.
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