Hal Holbrook didn’t require real-life details to craft his iconic role in the 1976 drama “All the President’s Men.” He had his own bloodhound-keen approach to finding the performance: Follow the morality.
Holbrook, who died Jan. 23 at age 95, played Deep Throat, the secret “garage freak” of a source to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) during the Watergate scandal. In 2005, W. Mark Felt, the former No. 2 official at the FBI, revealed himself to be Deep Throat — ending three decades of public speculation.
