Philip Baker Hall

PHILIP BAKER HALL is one of those character actors whom you see all the time but don't necessarily recognize by name. Notably, he played the deadpan, hard-boiled Bookman, the library cop, in an episode of "Seinfeld" (1991) that is considered one of the all-time television comedy classics. Hall gained considerable attention for his portrayal of Richard Nixon in the Donald Freed/Arnold Stone one-man play "Secret Honor" (1983, Los Angeles Actors' Theatre) , which… (more)