This is FRESH AIR. Hal Holbrook, the stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Deep Throat in the movie "All The President's Men" and for his Tony-winning one-man stage show as Mark Twain, ...

Hal Holbrook first got a sense of Mark Twain's power in 1948, when he and his first wife traveled around the South performing biographical theater pieces at schools. “Those audiences had never seen ...

Hal Holbrook, the Emmy and Tony-winning actor known for a long film career and his portrayal of Mark Twain on stage, has died at 95. The New York Times reported Holbrook died at his home in Beverly ...

While he was out starring in the national tour of “To Kill a Mockingbird” in 2023-24, Richard Thomas took to reading Mark Twain’s iconic novels “Tom Sawyer and “Huckleberry Finn” to help flesh out his ...

(CNN) — Hal Holbrook, a legendary Emmy and Tony Award winning actor, died January 23 at his California home, his daughter Victoria told CNN on Tuesday. He was 95. Holbrook portrayed iconic author Mark ...

Sept. 24, 1990: Mark Twain returned to Wilkes-Barre after 119 years to kick off the 1990-91 Broadway series for F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts. This wasn’t the real Twain, of course, but ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Hal Holbrook, the award-winning character actor who toured the world for more than 50 years as Mark Twain in a one-man show and uttered the immortal advice "Follow the money" in the ...

President George W. Bush presents actor Hal Holbrook with the 2003 National Humanities Medal. White House photo Samuel Langhorne Clemens, among the greatest and most widely read authors in history, is ...