TV Guide: Hal Holbrook

Listing: Creepshow

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 27 12:00 AM TELMUN

Listing: Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:00:00 -0400

Sun Oct 26 01:00 PM HALMRK

Listing: The Fleshy Part of the Thigh

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:00:00 -0400

Tue Oct 21 09:00 AM A&E Tempers flare when Barone Sanitation is put up for sale; Bobby helps an aspiring rapper pad his résumé; Paulie's world gets turned upside-down by a family matter; Tony converses with an evangelical about religion and dinosaurs. John: Hal Holbrook.

Listing: Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:00:00 -0400

Sun Oct 19 01:00 PM HALMRK

Listing: All the President's Men

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:35:00 -0400

Thu Oct 16 01:35 PM MOMAXe

Listing: Designing Women

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0400

Wed Oct 15 08:00 AM TVLAND

Listing: Magnum Force

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0400

Tue Oct 14 10:00 PM AMC

Listing: Fletch Lives

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:45:00 -0400

Tue Oct 14 11:45 AM MOMAXe

Listing: My Own Country

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:30:00 -0400

Tue Oct 14 06:30 AM FLIXe

Listing: The Star Chamber

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 13 10:00 PM FMC

Listing: Midway

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0400

Mon Oct 13 05:00 PM AMC

Video: Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of WWII

iTunes — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:04:30 -0400

From the early race to build gliders to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germany s final surrender, "Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of WWII" narrated by Hal Holbrook, reveals the critical role gliders played in World War II offensives. Through rare archival footage and photographs, the film places the audience right at the center of the action in the dangerous world of the American glider pilot. During WWII, 6000 young Americans volunteered to fly large unarmed cargo gliders into battle. For these glider pilots every mission was do-or-die. It was their task to repeatedly risk their lives landing the men and tools of war deep within enemy-held territory, often in complete darkness. Thousands of lives were saved and battles won because of their efforts. In fact, one pilot interviewed said - the 'G' in their emblem didn't stand for glider, it stood for 'guts.'

Video: Fletch Lives

iTunes — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:14:57 -0400

Chevy Chase returns to the screen as the reckless reporter I.M. Fletcher, investigative reporter, in Fletch Lives. This time, the chameleon-like reporter ventures to Belle Isle, a sprawling 80-acre Louisiana plantation which Fletch inherits from his aunt. Trouble begins when a lovely attorney mysteriously turns up dead, a neighborly lawyer (Hal Holbrook) warns him to leave town and a ravishing real estate agent (Julianne Phillips) comes calling with a persistent offer he may not be able to refuse. Fletch must unravel the reason for the mad land scramble with his trademark bag of hilarious disguises in this fast-moving comedy.

Video: All the President's Men

iTunes — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:47:06 -0400

History comes alive in this supremely entertaining film that garnered eight Oscar nominations including Best Picture. Oscar-winners Robert Redford ("Up Close and Personal," "Indecent Proposal") and Dustin Hoffman ("Outbreak," "Rain Man") play Woodward and Bernstein, the intrepid newspaper reporters who broke open the Watergate scandal and toppled a President. The screenplay by William Goldman ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "Indecent Proposal") won an Oscar, as did Jason Robards ("Philadelphia," "Parenthood") as Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. Featuring an all-star supporting cast, including Hal Holbrook ("Evening Shade"), Jane Alexander ("Kramer vs. Kramer"), Meredith Baxter ("Family Ties"), Ned Beatty ("Roseanne"), Martin Balsam ("Psycho"), Jack Warden ("Heaven Can Wait"), Polly Holliday ("Alice"), Stephen Collins ("Sisters"), Robert Walden ("Lou Grant") and many others.

Video: Final Appeal, Pt. 2

iTunes — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:16:04 -0400

It is the year 2076 and Dr. Theresa Givens (Amanda Plummer), a time-traveler from the 20th Century has been sentenced to death. Her crime - violating severe anti-technology laws passed in the wake of the nuclear holocaust 20 years earlier, an event that destroyed most of the world and prompted those who survived to return to the bucolic world that existed before the Industrial Revolution. Theresa has one last chance for a reprieve. Her lawyer, Nicole Whitley (Kelly McGillis) has won leave to appeal to the Supreme Court, a body headed by Chief Justice Haden Wainwright (Charlton Heston). The balance of the court is divided evenly between conservatives like Oliver Harbison (Hal Holbrook) and Gretchen Parkhurst (Cecily Tyson) who support the ban on technology and liberals like Earl Clayton (Robert Loggia) and Kendall Woods (Swoozie Kurtz) who favor a review. In light of the importance of the case, the government has sent Solicitor General Wallace Gannon (Michael Moriarty), a fierce defender of the law, to argue i

Video: Final Appeal, Pt. 1

iTunes — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:16:01 -0400

Video: Academy Awards 08: Hal Holbrook

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:42:22 -0400

Award Season '08. Lisa Rinna and Joey Fatone interview Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter at Hollywood's biggest Red Carpet event.

Video: Judas Kiss

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:18:20 -0400

Young lovers and small-time New Orleans scammers Coco Chavez (Carla Gugino) and Junior Armstrong (Simon Baker-Denny) move up a few rungs when they kidnap wealthy computer mogul Ben Dyson (Greg Wise) in Sebastian Gutierrez's neo-noir. During the crime, Coco kills Dyson's girlfriend, Patty (Beverly Penberthy), wife of Senator Rupert Hornbeck (Hal Holbrook). Assigned to the case are FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins (Emma Thompson) and Police Lt. David Friedman (Alan Rickman). When Hornbeck threatens Friedman instead of assisting him, the detective suspects that this is no ordinary kidnapping for ransom, and he does his own investigation. A conscience-stricken Coco realizes that she may have been set up to kill Patty, and she, too, takes matters into her own hands. A fairly complex tale of betrayal and corruption, Judas Kiss also spoofs noir conventions -- for instance, agent Hawkins is reading Jim Thompson's crime novel {-The Killer Inside Me}, and he discusses the writer's works with Friedman during lulls in the action.

Video: Men Of Honor

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:01:48 -0400

This military drama is based on the true story of Carl Brashear, who was the first African-American to serve as a diver in the United States Navy. Brashear (played by Cuba Gooding Jr.) was born to a poor farming family in the deep South, and joined the Navy in hopes of bettering himself. When Brashear applies for diving school, he first encounters Master Chief Billy Sunday (Robert De Niro), a gruff and tyrannical diving instructor who holds absolute sway over his charges. Sunday does little at first to encourage Brashear's ambitions, and the would-be diver discovers racism in the military is an ugly fact of life when his white comrades refuse to share barracks with him. But Brashear's courage and determination make an impression on Sunday, and the two men become allies as Brashear must fight prejudice, military bureaucracy, and even a crippling injury in order to realize his dreams. Originally announced under the title Navy Diver, Men of Honor also features Hal Holbrook, David Keith, Michael Rapaport, Charliz

Video: All The President's Men

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:06:28 -0400

Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex, green {~Washington Post} reporters/rivals Woodward (Robert Redford, who also exec produced) and Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) stumble on a possible connection between the burglars and a White House staffer. With the circumspect approval of executive editor Ben Bradlee (Jason Robards), the pair digs deeper. Aided by a guilt-ridden turncoat bookkeeper (Jane Alexander) and the vital if cryptic guidance of Woodward's mystery source, Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook), Woodward and Bernstein follow the money all the way to the top of the Nixon administration. Despite Deep Throat's warnings that their lives are in danger, and the reluctance of older {~Post} editors, Woodward and Bernstein are determined t

Video: Wild In The Streets

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:51:15 -0400

A rock star decides he'd rather rule the free world than just sell records in this ambitious fusion of political satire and teen exploitation. Teenage rebel Max Flatow (Christopher Jones) has grown tired of life in suburbia with his domineering mother (Shelley Winters) and weak-willed father (Bert Freed), and, having saved up 800 dollars he earned by selling home-brewed LSD to his schoolmates, he blows up the family car with a makeshift bomb and strikes out on his own. A few years later, Max has adopted the name Max Frost, and is one of the world's biggest rock stars, selling millions of records and earning a fortune from concert appearances and music publishing. Max has learned firsthand about the buying power of America's youth, and when Sen. John Fergis (Hal Holbrook) asks Max to appear at a youth rally to mobilize younger voters, he realizes the kids could also sway an election if they wanted. At Fergis' rally, Max debuts a new song, Fourteen or Fight, which demands the voting age be reduced to 14; the yo

Video: Behind Enemy Lines

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:01:01 -0400

Hal Holbrook stars in this TV pilot film as Colonel Calvin Turner, a special operative for the OSS during World War II. Working in cooperation with British intelligence, Turner's mission is to uncover atomic weapon secrets at a Nazi plant in occupied Norway. The task permits him time for a bit of dalliance with the lovely Anne Twomey. David McCallum and Ray Sharkey costar in this uneven location-filmed adventure caper, first broadcast December 29, 1985. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Star Chamber

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:21:48 -0400

Fed up with watching vicious criminals walk on technicalities and loopholes, judge Michael Douglas accepts his older colleague Hal Holbrook's invitation to join The Star Chamber. This sub-rosa organization consists of nine like-minded judges who endeavor to take the law into their own hands. Essentially, these are robed vigilantes, but Douglas joins them, determining that the end justifies the means. Before long, however, Douglas finds himself balking at sanctioning the murder of freed criminals -- and as a result becomes the target of the Star Chamber himself. Worth noting in the supporting cast of The Star Chamber are Diana Douglas, Michael Douglas' real-life mother, and Frances Bergen, widow of Edgar Bergen and mother of Candice Bergen. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Hush

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:08:59 -0400

Jonathan Darby made his directorial debut with this thriller, set in Kentucky (but filmed in Orange County, VA). Jackson Baring (Johnathon Schaech) wants his girlfriend, Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow), to meet his mother, Martha (Jessica Lange), so he brings her home for Christmas to Kilronan, their sumptuous Kentucky estate and horse farm. Later, after Helen gets pregnant, they marry and return to Kilronan to have the baby, but Martha aggressively intrudes and manipulates, telling obstetrician Dr. Hill (Hal Holbrook) how to deal with the birth and forbidding Helen from seeing Jackson's invalid granny, Alice (Nina Foch). After learning some of Martha's past history from Alice, Helen soon decides she must make an escape from her demented mother-in-law. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide.

Video: Fletch Lives

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:28:58 -0400

Though the original Fletch was drubbed by critics, it proved a major success for star Chevy Chase. It was inevitable, then, that a sequel would make an appearance. Surprisingly, Fletch Lives didn't come out until 1989--a full five years after the original. Once more, Chase stars as Irwin Maurice Fletch Fletcher, the gonzo investigative reporter created by novelist Gregory McDonald. Indulging his penchant for disguises and bizarre aliases, Fletch investigates a deep dark mystery at a crumbling Southern plantation. Various friends and enemies are portrayed con brio by Hal Holbrook, Cleavon Little, Juliane Phillips, Randall Tex Cobb, Richard Libertini and Richard Belzer (Chase's cohort from the old Groove Tube days). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Unholy, The

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:33:09 -0400

Archbishop Mosley (Hal Holbrook) assigns Father Michael (Ben Cross) to a church in New Orleans in this supernatural horror film. The parish church was the site of the throat-slashing murders of two priests two years earlier. While Father Michael tends to the mostly impoverished flock of parishioners and their needs, he launches his own investigation into the mysterious unsolved deaths. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide.

Video: Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots Of Wwii

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:38:48 -0400

Join narrator Hal Holbrook as he examines the crucial role that gliders played in World War II offensives in this documentary that follows the history of the glider from the race to master the sky to the beaches of Normandy and Germany's last stand. In order to emerge victorious in battle, it was crucial that pilots be able to deliver weapons and munitions deep into enemy territory. Unarmed cargo gliders provided the ideal means of accomplishing this lofty goal, and the 6,000 American volunteers who volunteered to pilot these vehicles would repeatedly risk their lives flying in the hostile territory under the most treacherous conditions. Frequently carrying out their missions in the dead of night, these brave souls would take to the skies with no motor to propel them, no landmarks to guide them, and no parachutes to ensure their safety. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide.

Video: Creepshow

iTunes — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:28:46 -0400

Two macabre masters - writer Stephen King and director George A. Romero - conjure up five shocking yarns, each a virtuoso exercise in the ghouls-and-gags style of classic '50s horror comics. A murdered man emerges from the grave for Father's Day cake. A meteor's ooze makes everything ... grow. A professor selects his wife as a snack for a crated creature. A scheming husband plants two lovers up to their necks in terror. A malevolent millionaire with an insect phobia becomes the prey of a cockroach army. Add the spirited performances of a fine cast (Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau, Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, E.G. Marshall and King himself) and the ghoulish makeup wizardry of Tom Savini. Let the Creepshow begin.

Video: Best Supporting Actor Nominee: Hal Holbrook

VH1 — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:57:44 -0400

Hal Holbrook is nominated for his performance in Into the Wild.

Video: CCA Post-Show Wrap-Up: Hal Holbrook & Dixie Carter

VH1 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:42:20 -0400

See Ross the Intern talk to Hal Holbrook & Dixie Carter as they re-live the highlights on the show.

Video: CCA Red Carpet: Hal Holbrook & Dixie Carter

VH1 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:36:05 -0400

Check out this exclusive interview with Hal Holbrook & Dixie Carter on the red carpet at the Critics' Choice Awards!

Photo: Sharon Acker, Hal Holbrook of The Senator

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Photo: Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter - "Men of Honor" premiere, Nov. 2000

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Photo: The Sopranos - Season 6 - Hal Holbrook as John

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