Hal Holbrook, the five-time Emmy-winning actor who was famed for portraying Mark Twain, has died at the age of 95. Holbrook died on January 23 at his home in Beverly Hills, his assistant told The New York Times.The actor was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1925 and went on to have a highly decorated screen and stage career that spanned more than six decades.He was perhaps best known for playing Mark Twain in his one-man stage show Mark Twain Tonight!, which played on Broadway in 1966 and earned Holbrook a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.
A television showing of the stage show secured him an Emmy nomination a year later.Holbrook played former U.S. president Abraham Lincoln on television in Carl Sandburg’s 1974
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