He is a man who has been around, who knows casinos and gambling, who finds himself attached to three people he could easily have avoided, who thinks before he acts.” “He gave one of the great performances in American movies, in a one-man show, playing Richard Nixon in Robert Altman’s Secret Honor. “Many Americans linger in adolescence, but Hall is the kind of man who puts on a tie before he leaves the house.
And grown up,” Roger Ebert wrote in his review of the film. He’s familiar, in a way: He looks middle-aged and a little sad. “Philip Baker Hall has been in the movies since 1975 and has been on a lot of TV shows, even Seinfeld. Those conversations made quite the impression on Anderson, who crafted a script for a film that became his 1993 short, aptly titled Cigarettes & Coffee, starring Hall.įor his debut feature, Hard Eight (1996), Anderson showcased Hall as Sydney, a veteran card hustler who teaches the tricks of his trade to a younger protégé (John C. “We would talk and have cigarettes and coffee.” “He was a fan of my work, so how could I not like him?” Hall said with a laugh during an April 2017 interview with The Washington Post. Hall and Anderson first met on a PBS film when the director was working as a production assistant. In October 2017, Hall starred alongside Ellen Geer on an episode of HBO’s Room 104.
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He also played 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt in Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999) and had the unique distinction of appearing in two films about a notorious 1960s serial killer - The Zodiac (2005) and Zodiac (2007). Hall portrayed Richard Nixon in the acclaimed one-man play Secret Honor, then reprised the part of the disgraced president for director Robert Altman in a 1984 feature version. Stu Silver, 'Throw Momma From the Train' Screenwriter, Dies at 76
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