Philip Baker Hall
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Toledo, Ohio, USA
Primarily a supporting and character actor, Philip Baker Hall has also played the occasional lead on stage, screen, and television. Hall made his film debut playing a priest in Cowards (1970). He then appeared in three television series during the mid-'70s, including Man From Atlantis (1977). He became best known during the '80s for his portrayal of Richard Nixon in Robert Altman's brilliant Secret Honor (1984), for which Hall also wrote the screenplay. Though the film garnered mixed reviews, the actor's portrayal of Nixon was hailed as a tour de force. Through the '80s and '90s, Hall continued to work steadily in films and on television; his talents were perhaps best, and most famously, utilized by director Paul Thomas Anderson, who cast Hall in substantial roles in Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), and Magnolia (1999), the last of which saw the actor in fine form as a game show host dying of cancer. Hall also had a memorable turn as a private investigator who is far too convinced of the infallibility of his own instincts in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999); that same year, he gave a strong performance as CBS producer Don Hewitt in Michael Mann's The Insider. Clearly, Hall had no intention of slowing down, and he would spend the next several years remaining extremely active, appearing in such films as The Matador, Rush Hour 3, The Lodger, 50/50, and Mr. Popper's Penguins.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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52% | Person to Person |
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$48.8k | 2017 |
40% | The Last Word |
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$1.8M | 2017 |
14% | Playing It Cool |
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— | 2015 |
70% | Altman |
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— | 2014 |
65% | Bad Words |
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— | 2014 |
61% | Clear History |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | The Chicago 8 |
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— | 2012 |
53% | People Like Us |
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$12.5M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Bending the Rules |
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— | 2012 |
93% | 50/50 |
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$35.1M | 2011 |
47% | Mr. Popper's Penguins |
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$68.2M | 2011 |
35% | All Good Things |
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$0.6M | 2010 |
42% | Wonderful World |
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— | 2010 |
24% | Fired Up |
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$16.8M | 2009 |
24% | The Lodger |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Duck: Think Outside the Flock |
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— | 2008 |
18% | Rush Hour 3 |
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$140.1M | 2007 |
78% | You Kill Me |
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$2.4M | 2007 |
64% | The TV Set |
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$35k | 2007 |
88% | Islander |
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— | 2007 |
89% | Zodiac |
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$33M | 2007 |
26% | The Zodiac |
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— | 2006 |
26% | The Shaggy Dog |
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$61.1M | 2006 |
75% | The Matador |
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$12.5M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Limb Salesman |
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— | 2006 |
50% | Duck |
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— | 2005 |
43% | Mrs. Harris |
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— | 2005 |
83% | In Good Company |
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$45.5M | 2004 |
75% | A House on a Hill |
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— | 2003 |
64% | Die Mommie Die! |
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— | 2003 |
48% | Bruce Almighty |
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$242.6M | 2003 |
70% | Dogville |
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$1.5M | 2003 |
57% | Hit Me |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | A Gentleman's Game |
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— | 2002 |
100% | Path to War |
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— | 2002 |
8% | Lost Souls |
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— | 2000 |
76% | The Contender |
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$16.2M | 2000 |
37% | Rules of Engagement |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis |
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— | 2000 |
84% | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
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— | 1999 |
83% | Magnolia |
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— | 1999 |
64% | Cradle Will Rock |
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— | 1999 |
96% | The Insider |
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— | 1999 |
57% | Let the Devil Wear Black |
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— | 1999 |
39% | Psycho |
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— | 1998 |
61% | Rush Hour |
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— | 1998 |
43% | Judas Kiss |
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— | 1998 |
95% | The Truman Show |
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— | 1998 |
60% | Witness to the Mob |
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— | 1998 |
27% | Sour Grapes |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Tempting Fate |
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— | 1998 |
0% | Implicated |
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— | 1998 |
93% | Boogie Nights |
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— | 1997 |
78% | Air Force One |
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— | 1997 |
25% | Buddy |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The Little Death |
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— | 1996 |
80% | Hard Eight |
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— | 1996 |
8% | Eye for an Eye |
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— | 1996 |
68% | Kiss of Death |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Without Warning |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Roswell |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Cigarettes & Coffee |
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— | 1993 |
0% | Live Wire |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Stormy Weathers |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Blue Desert |
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— | 1991 |
38% | An Innocent Man |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story |
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— | 1989 |
53% | Ghostbusters 2 |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Incident at Dark River |
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— | 1989 |
43% | How I Got Into College |
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— | 1989 |
98% | Say Anything... |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Goddess of Love |
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— | 1988 |
94% | Midnight Run |
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— | 1988 |
67% | Three O'Clock High |
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— | 1987 |
77% | Secret Honor |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | The Last Reunion |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | The Man with Bogart's Face |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Night the Bridge Fell Down |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Terror Out of the Sky (The Revenge of the Savage Bees) |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Kill Me If You Can |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Man from Atlantis |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Cowards |
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— | 1970 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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88% |
Room 104
2017-2020
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85% |
Modern Family
2009-2020
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95% |
Corporate
2018
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30% |
Second Chance
2016
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No Score Yet |
Madam Secretary
2014-2019
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68% |
Rake
2014
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59% |
The Newsroom
2012-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Life & Times of Tim
2008-2012
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92% |
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000-2020
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No Score Yet |
Lass es, Larry!
2000-2017
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68% |
Worst Week
2008-2009
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89% |
Psych
2006-2014
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40% |
The Loop
2006-2007
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No Score Yet |
Pasadena
2001-2002
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86% |
Boston Legal
2004-2008
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91% |
Monk
2002-2009
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75% |
The West Wing
1999-2006
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93% |
Everwood
2002-2006
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No Score Yet |
Night Visions
2001-2002
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No Score Yet |
Without a Trace
2002-2009
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89% |
Seinfeld
1989-1998
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No Score Yet |
The Practice
1997-2004
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No Score Yet |
Empty Nest
1988-1995
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No Score Yet |
Cheers
1982-1993
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
Family Ties
1982-1989
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No Score Yet |
Quincy, M.E.
1976-1983
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No Score Yet |
The Waltons
1972-1981
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No Score Yet |
M*A*S*H
1972-1983
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No Score Yet |
Good Times
1974-1979
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100% |
Bob
1993
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Quotes from Philip Baker Hall's Characters
Mitch: | How come we haven't met Rachel? |
Alan: | Yeah, what the fuck? |
Sydney: | Never ignore a man's courtesy. |
Sydney: | Good that you have such a sturdy sense of responsibility. |
Sydney: | You know the first thing they should've taught you at hooker school? You get the money up front! |
Sydney: | This is a very fucked up situation. |
Adam: | She doesn't like to mix negative and positive energy...it's an energy idea. |
Alan: | Well I call it a bullshit idea. |
Alan: | I'm Alan Lombardo, stage three lymphoma. Pleased to meet you. |
Mitch: | Mitch Barnett, metastatic prostate cancer. |
Adam: | Nice to meet you. Oh, I'm Adam Lerner, schwannoma neurofibrosarcoma. |
Alan: | I'm Alan Lombardo, stage three lymphoma. Pleased to meet you. |
Mitch: | Mitch Barnett, metastatic prostate cancer. |
Adam: | Nice to meet you. Oh, I'm Adam Lerner, schwannoma neurofibrosarcoma. |
Alan: | Want a macaroon? |
Adam: | Thanks, but I'm alright. |
Alan: | There's weed in em... |