R.I.P Philip Baker Hall, 90

UncleScoopy

His name may mean nothing to you, but you know his face:



He was nearly 40 when he got his first break, but he was ubiquitous after that, in both dramatic and comedic roles, using his familiar gruff, unsmiling persona.

3 thoughts on “R.I.P Philip Baker Hall, 90”

  2. “I’m not a complicated man. I like cinema. In particular, I like to see people fucking on film. But, I don’t want to win an Oscar and I don’t want to re-invent the wheel. I like simple pleasures, like butter in my ass and lollipops in my mouth. That’s just me. That’s just something that I enjoy. Call me crazy, call me a pervert. But, there’s one little thing that I’m going to do in this life and that is I’m going to make a dolla ‘n a cent in this business.”

    PTA gave him one of his best roles in “Hard Eight” but he elevated everything he was in, no matter how small the role (I also remember him as Dennis Farina’s lawyer in “Midnight Run”)

    RIP

  3. If you can even tolerate Altman, Secret Honor is a damn good PBH one-man show.

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