Hal Holbrook Movies

Want to know the best Hal Holbrook movies?  How about the worst Hal Holbrook movies?  Curious about Hal Holbrook box office grosses or which Hal Holbrook movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Hal Holbrook movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Hal Holbrook (1925-2021) was an Oscar®-nominated American actor.  Holbrook first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show he developed, Mark Twain Tonight!   His movie career spanned over 6 decades. His IMDb page shows 136 acting credits from 1955 to 2021.   This page will rank Hal Holbrook movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles, and movies that were not released in North American were not included in the rankings.

1976’s All The President’s Men

Hal Holbrook Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.

1973’s Magnum Force

Hal Holbrook Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.

  • Sort Hal Holbrook movies by his co-stars
  • Sort Hal Holbrook movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Hal Holbrook movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Hal Holbrook movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Hal Holbrook movie received.
  • Sort Hal Holbrook movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
1993’s The Firm

Possibly Interesting Facts About Hal Holbrook

1. Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr., was born on February 17, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio. His mother was a a vaudeville dancer.

2. Ed Sullivan saw him and gave Hal Holbrook his first national exposure on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 12, 1956.  He got Sullivan’s attention for his performance in Mark Twain, Tonight!  He would play Twain for the rest of his life which included over 2,000 performances.

3. The Hal Holbrook Theatre is located in the Dixie Performing Arts Center in Huntingdon, Tennessee. The Dixie was named in honor of his wife, Dixie Carter, who was from McLemoresville, a nearby town in northwest Tennessee.

4. Hal Holbrook received his only Oscar® nomination at the age of 82.  At the time that was the record for oldest person to receive a nomination.  That record was beaten when Christopher Plummer at the age of 88 got a Best Supporting Oscar® nomination for 2017’s All The Money In The World.

5. Hal Holbrook had appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®: All the President’s Men (1976), Julia (1977), and Lincoln (2012).

Check out Hal Holbrook‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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