Phillip Baker Hall has had many noteworthy performances, both in TV series and in movies. Clarin photographic archive
Philip Baker Hall, known to fans of Seinfeld as Lieutenant Bookman, the library detective and fan of Hold back your enthusiasm like the ultra serious Dr. Morrison, and for movie buffs like anyone else in a long list of memorable characters in films like Eight tough, Magnolia, Boogie Knights, Dogville, The Truman Showwith Jim Carrey, Rush hour and many others have died.
The news was spread by his friend and neighbor, the sports journalist of the Los Angeles Times Sam Farmer. He was 90 years old.
Along with Jerry Seinfeld, who claimed a book, in “Seinfeld”. Clarin photographic archive
Hall will be remembered by the legions of fans of Seinfeld for playing one of the most popular unique characters the show has ever seen. He was Lieutenant Bookman, the library detective who tracked down Jerry Seinfeld for failing to return a book that the “jolly boy”, as Bookman called him, among other things, had taken in 1971.
Hall also played Larry David’s ultra-serious Dr. Morrison in a couple of episodes of Hold back your enthusiasm.
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As a film actor, Hall had a small role in Zabriskie PointMichelangelo Antonioni’s classic, in 1970. He has had other small roles in films such as To eat, Nothing in common, Ghostbusters II, an innocent man and many others. But the revelation of him came in Paul Thomas Anderson’s directorial debut, Eight toughin which he portrayed professional gamer Sydney, who took the character of John C. Reilly under his wing.
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