23 Facts About Philip Baker Hall

Philip Baker Hall was an American character actor.

Philip Baker Hall is known for his collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson, including Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia.

Philip Baker Hall starred in leading roles in films, such as Secret Honor and Duck.

Philip Baker Hall received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Male Lead for his role in Hard Eight and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture for Boogie Nights and Magnolia.

Philip Baker Hall had recurring roles in The Practice, The West Wing, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Modern Family, and BoJack Horseman.

Philip Baker Hall's mother was Alice Birdene, and his father, William Alexander Hall, was a factory worker from Montgomery, Alabama.

Philip Baker Hall served in Germany as a United States Army translator and as a high school teacher.

Philip Baker Hall had over 200 guest roles since 1977.

Philip Baker Hall played Richard Nixon in the one-character film Secret Honor and reprised his role he had created during the play's original Off-Broadway run.

Philip Baker Hall looks a little like the real Nixon; he could be a cousin, and he sounds a little like him.

Philip Baker Hall contributed an opening narration, a parody of the announcements one would hear on Magnetic Reference Laboratory's calibration tapes for analogue tape recorders, on 1000 Hurts, the 2000 album by Chicago post-punk band Shellac.

Philip Baker Hall 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.

Philip Baker Hall later starred in Anderson's other films Boogie Nights and Magnolia.

Philip Baker Hall was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Philip Baker Hall had turns in a variety of films in the 1990s, including The Rock, The Truman Show, The Talented Mr Ripley, and The Insider.

Philip Baker Hall co-starred in other films in the 2000s, including Dogville, Zodiac, and Argo.

Philip Baker Hall played Captain Diel in the Rush Hour trilogy.

Philip Baker Hall played a physician in Curb Your Enthusiasm, and appeared in Modern Family.

Philip Baker Hall appeared in an episode of The Newsroom and in a Holiday Inn commercial.

Philip Baker Hall undertook stage work in New York and Los Angeles, but did not appear on Broadway.

Philip Baker Hall had two daughters, Patricia and Darcy, with his first wife, Mary-Ella Holst.

Philip Baker Hall later married Holly Wolfle, with whom he had two daughters, Adella and Anna.

Philip Baker Hall died of emphysema at his home in Glendale, California, on June 12,2022, at the age of 90.