Hal Holbrook Wins 2011 Julie Harris Award

According to a report by Variety, stage and screen star HAl Holbrook will be honored with the 2011 Julie Harris Lifetime Achievement Award from the Actors' Fund. Holbrook will receive the award at the Los Angeles Tony Awards Party on June 12 at the Skirball Cultural Center. 

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Holbrook has done 50 television movies and mini-series, been nominated for 12 Emmys and won five. He has appeared in two sitcoms, Designing Women and Evening Shade, and has made guest appearances on West Wing, The Sopranos, NCIS, ER, Sons of Anarchy and The Event.

Holbrook's movie career began with The Group in 1966 when he was 41 years old. Since then, moviegoers have seen him in more than 40 films, including Magnum Force, Midway, All The President's Men, Capricorn One, The Fog, Creepshow, Wall Street, The Firm, Men of Honor, The Majestic and Into the Wild; the latter earned him an Academy Award nomination.

Throughout his long career, Holbrook has continued to appear on stage in productions such as The Country Girl, King Lear, An American Daughter, Our Town and Death of a Salesman.
He has toured with Mark Twain Tonight every year since 1954.