George W. Bush honored Holbrook with a National Humanities Medal for "charming audiences with the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain as Twain's outlook never fails to give Holbrook a good show to put on". The local community of McLemoresville, hometown of his wife Dixie Carter, constructed the Dixie Theatre for Performing Arts in nearby Huntingdon, Tennessee, which features the Hal Holbrook Auditorium. Upon his retirement from his Mark Twain persona, the HuffPost hailed Holbrook as "the man who has done more to keep Mark Twain on people's minds than anyone else". Filmography Awards and nominations References Further reading External links Hal Holbrook Papers at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research 1925 births 2021 deaths 20th-century American male actors 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male actors 21st-century American male writers American impressionists (entertainers) American male film actors American male stage actors American male television actors American male voice actors American television directors Audiobook narrators Burials in Tennessee Culver Academies alumni Denison University alumni Male actors from Cleveland National Humanities Medal recipients Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie Primetime Emmy Award winners People from Lakewood, Ohio People from Weymouth, Massachusetts Tony Award winners United States Army personnel of World War II United States Army non-commissioned officers Writers from Massachusetts Writers from Cleveland