Harold Rowe Holbrook, Jr. (born February 17, 1925) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning American actor. Best known for his appereances in several TV series such as Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 TV series Lincoln, Hays Stowe on The Bold Ones: The Senator and Capt. Lloyd Bucher on Pueblo, He is also well known for his role in the recent film Into the Wild, for which he was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as an Academy Award.
Two children, Victoria Holbrook and David Holbrook (I), with Ruby Holbrook.
One daughter, Eve, with Carol Eve Rossen.
In his guest appearance on "West Wing, The" (1999), his character first describes the fate of the USS Pueblo, an intelligence gathering surface vessel, caught spying by North Korea in 1968, while referring to the fictional USS Portland. In 1973's Pueblo (1973) (TV), Holbrook portrayed the lead character.
He was just 29 when he began touring his one-man show of the elderly Mark Twain, even performing for President 'Dwight Eisenhower' at one point. In June 2005, he returned his "Mark Twain Tonight" to Broadway for a sold out, month-long run, receiving rave reviews from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
He is a 1948 graduate of Denison University (Granville, Ohio)
Has starred in two projects based on John Grisham books with Firm, The (1993) and Street Lawyer, The (2003) (TV).
Ex-brother-in-law of Ellen Rossen and Robert Rossen.
Stepfather of Mary Dixie Carter and Ginna Carter.
Fans consider his 1968 live stage performance of "I Never Sang for My Father" one of his best, seldom mentioned acts. Before the motion picture of the same name was released two years later, starring Gene Hackman.
