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Terry's Peeps

Post subject: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:19 am

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Great character actor.

RIP.

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Minooka Meatball

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:15 pm

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Add him to the “I thought he was dead already” file.

Great actor. Hell of a run.

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Caller Bob

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:46 pm

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Founder of Holbrook Massachusetts. RIP.

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blackhawksfan

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:57 pm

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He looks very feminine

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Furious Styles

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:18 pm

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The baseball scene in The Star Chamber is one of my favorite examples of his work.

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Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:20 pm

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Thank you, Hal, for teaching me that...

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NWsider4-3-3

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:23 pm

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always played spooky characters. remember him as the disheveled intelligence office in 'midway'. charlton heston reminded him that he smelled and needed to bathe more often.

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Jaw Breaker

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:47 pm

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Lou Mannheim wrote:

Kid, you're on a roll. Enjoy it while it lasts, 'cause it never does.

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good dolphin

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 6:12 pm

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blackhawksfan wrote:

He looks very feminine

one of those heads made out of dried apples the germans like to craft

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Regular Reader

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 6:29 pm

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He'll always be the ringleader of the dirty cops in Magnum Force to me.

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Warren Newson

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 6:54 pm

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Jaw Breaker wrote:

Lou Mannheim wrote:

Kid, you're on a roll. Enjoy it while it lasts, 'cause it never does.

Mannheim and Mark Twain were far and away his two best roles.

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Furious Styles

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:07 pm

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Regular Reader wrote:

He'll always be the ringleader of the dirty cops in Magnum Force to me.

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:25 pm

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Warren Newson wrote:

Mannheim and Mark Twain were far and away his two best roles.

I think it is interesting that everyone pretty much does the same Mark Twain impression but nobody has ever actually heard his voice. They are doing an impression of a guy that did an impression of Twain because he knew him.

I always think of Holbrook from All the President's Men.

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Peoria Matt

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2021 9:38 pm

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:

I always think of Holbrook from All the President's Men.

He was great in that.

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JustAGayGuy

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 9:59 am

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Wasn't he the corrupt lawyer in Fletch Lives?

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Regular Reader

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 10:04 am

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:

Warren Newson wrote:

Mannheim and Mark Twain were far and away his two best roles.

Didn't Thomas Edison make a recording of his voice?

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 10:06 am

Regular Reader wrote:

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:

Warren Newson wrote:

Mannheim and Mark Twain were far and away his two best roles.

Didn't Thomas Edison make a recording of his voice?

I think that was just a silent film of him walking around.

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Regular Reader

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 10:21 am

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:

Regular Reader wrote:

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:

Warren Newson wrote:

Mannheim and Mark Twain were far and away his two best roles.

Didn't Thomas Edison make a recording of his voice?

I think that was just a silent film of him walking around.

I just looked. Apparently he made a number of them, didn't like them and he destroyed all of his. I guess the few others have been lost to history.

Since I don't have much to do today, I may do a little reading of his stuff. Thanks Doc!

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2021 10:35 am

Regular Reader wrote:

I just looked. Apparently he made a number of them, didn't like them and he destroyed all of his.

The story I heard was that he actually liked them but he faced a lot of on-street bullying where strangers would just yell -

"YOU SUCK, CLEMENS!!"

"OSCAR WILDE IS THE GOAT!!"

"IF GERTRUDE STEIN WAS A MAN...."

- and so forth. So he just destroyed them due to depression.

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Tall Midget

Post subject: Re: Hal Holbrook

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:38 am

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:

Regular Reader wrote:

I just looked. Apparently he made a number of them, didn't like them and he destroyed all of his.

The one that really did him in was "DREISER IS FUNNIER!"

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