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Philip Baker Hall
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Biography
Philip Baker Hall (September 10, 1931 – June 12, 2022) was an American actor. Although known primarily as a prolific character actor, he starred in leading roles on films, such as Secret Honor, Hard Eight and Duck. Other films in supporting roles including Say Anything..., Boogie Nights, The Truman Show, Magnolia, The Contender, Zodiac and Argo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Baker Hall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable films
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The Truman Show
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Zodiac
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Magnolia
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Insider
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Contender
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Psycho
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Rush Hour
As Captain Diel
Bruce Almighty
As Jack Baylor
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Remakes That Missed but Matter
From Neil LaBute's Wicker Man to Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, a journey through remakes that stumbled yet reveal why we keep returning to the classics.
8 films
Breaking the Frame: A Journey Through the Fourth Wall
It began with a gun, a bullet, and an audience leaping out of their seats. When Justus D. Barnes leveled his revolver at the camera in The Great Train Robbery (...
8 films
When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability
What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...
8 films
The Perfect Needledrop: Ten Moments That Own the Screen
From sudden silences to euphoric choruses, these are the film moments where a song doesn't just score the scene, it becomes the scene.
10 films
The Camera as Weapon
From Chris Hansen's sting operations to the blood sport of nightly news, this chain traces the moral rot at the heart of spectacle.
8 films
The Mind's Eye: Crime Films of Obsession and Interiority
From a detective's haunted pursuit to a killer's fractured psyche, this chain traces cinema's most intimate crime stories, where the real action happens inside...
8 films
The Weight of Command: Eight Faces of Authority
From courtroom to battlefield, from boardroom to the Oval Office, these eight performances explore the many masks of power and the human cost of wearing them.
8 films
Unmasked: Living in the Aftermath of Exposure
The secret is out, and the thrill of anonymity is gone. This collection skips the suspense of a secret identity to focus on the unglamorous aftermath of total e...
7 films
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Playing It Cool
2014 · Granddad
50/50
2011 · Alan
Zodiac
2007 · Sherwood Morrill
The Amityville Horror
2005 · Father Callaway
Bruce Almighty
2003 · Jack Baylor
A Gentleman's Game
2002 · Charlie Logan
The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Defense Secretary Becker
The Contender
2000 · Oscar Billings
Rules of Engagement
2000 · Gen. H. Lawrence Hodges
The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 · Alvin MacCarron
Magnolia
1999 · Jimmy Gator
Cradle Will Rock
1999 · Gray Mathers
The Insider
1999 · Don Hewitt
Psycho
1998 · Sheriff Chambers
Rush Hour
1998 · Captain Diel
The Truman Show
1998 · Network Executive
Boogie Nights
1997 · Floyd Gondolli
Air Force One
1997 · Attorney General Ward
Hard Eight
1997 · Sydney
Eye for an Eye
1996 · Sidney Hughes
Kiss of Death
1995 · Big Junior Brown
Say Anything...
1989 · IRS Boss
Midnight Run
1988 · Sidney, Chicago mobster
The Spirit
1987 · Sevrin