Hal Holbrook, best known for portraying Mark Twain on stage and screen for over six decades, is dead at 95.
The Cleveland-born Holbrook began portraying the Southern author in the one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! in 1954, while he was studying at Lock Haven State Teachers College.
Interestingly enough, Holbrook was only 29 when he began playing 70-year-old Twain, and would continue to embody him well into his 80s.
Holbrook is survived by his children, his two stepdaughters Ginna Carter and Mary Dixie Carter, his two grandchildren, and two step-grandchildren.