Philip Baker Hall, Lieutenant Bookman of the library police on Seinfeld, has died at age 90.

Philip Baker Hall, a traveling actor who was a favorite of director Paul Thomas Anderson, but is best remembered for his portrayal of a library researcher, Lieutenant Bookman. Seinfeld, died. He was 90 years old.

Holly died Sunday night at her home in Glendale, her daughter Anna said. hollywood reporter.

Holly, with her haunted face and world-weary eyes, seemed to have seen it all and used that knowledge to move forward. All of the actors have scored over 100 television appearances during their five-year career, and recently one of his favorite characters is Walt Klesack, a shrewd neighbor who befriends young Luke Dunf (Nolan Gould). ამModern family.

Hall played Richard Nixon in an acclaimed solo play secret dignityThen, in the 1984 film version, director Robert Altman played the embarrassed president. also played 60 minutes Producer Don Hewitt at Michael Mann’s House well informed person (1999) and had the singular difference of appearing in two films about the notorious 1960s serial killer – Zodiac (2005) and Zodiac (2007).

In October 2017, Hall co-starred with Ellen Gere in an episode of HBO. room 104.

Holly and Anderson met on a PBS movie when the director was working as a production assistant. “He was a fan of my work, so how could he not like it?” Said Hall with a smile in an April 2017 interview Washington post. “We talk, smoke cigarettes and drink coffee.”

These conversations made a big impression on Anderson, who wrote the screenplay for the film, which became his aptly titled 1993 short film. cigarettes and coffeeHolly in the lead role.

For your debut painting, eight heavy (1996), Anderson played Hall as Sydney, a veteran card dealer who teaches a young prostitute (John S. Reilly) her professional tricks.

“Philip Baker Hall has been in film since 1975 and has appeared on numerous television shows. Seinfeld. “It’s a familiar thing: he looks middle-aged and a little bored. And he grew up,” Roger Ebert wrote in a review of the film.

He performed one of the most outstanding performances in American cinema, in a solo exhibition, in the role of Richard Nixon in Robert Altman’s film. secret dignity. Here’s another excellent performance. “He is a person who has been around, who knows casinos and gambling, who is chained to three people who could have been easily avoided, who thinks before he acts.”

in Anderson dance nightsHall, a 1997 major drama about the porn industry, starred Floyd Gondol, an adult film distributor. And his moving portrayal of Jimmy Getor, a children’s show host who dies of cancer, was one of the director’s hallmarks. Magnolia (1999).

Still, Hall was the most recognizable role. Seinfeld Episode “Library”. A dogged detective in an overcoat, his Joe Bookman relentlessly pursues the Jerry Library book quest – Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer– He was over 20 years late. Hall’s speech gave the situation a perfect sense of absurdity.

“You better not screw it up anymore, Seinfeld, because if you do, I’ll be all over you like a pit bull poodle,” warns bookman Jerry.

The work fell in love with the Legion actor Seinfeld fans.

as the salon said Rolling Stone In 2014, “It’s been over 20 years since we filmed this episode, and I still can’t go out in public for very long before someone says, ‘Oh my God, that’s a bookman!’ or ‘Are you a bookman?’ I took that book from the library, I swear! It’s not just New York or Los Angeles; It happened in the Centro-Oeste mall or even in other countries where the program is broadcast. The boy was impressed. ”

The play also impressed Hollywood. “It’s funny, Lt. Bookman was one of the last roles I ever heard of, just because a lot of doors opened after the show ended,” Hall said.

“I remember Jerry having a hard time keeping a straight face as he read. Usually, when you read something, no one is going to bother you too much, even if you like it. But people had a hard time controlling their laughter, so when I called my wife, I said, “I’m not sure…but I’m sure I heard that part.”

Bookman repeatedly visited the finale of the fabulous sitcom, which aired on May 14, 1998.

Philip Baker Hall was born on September 10, 1931, in Toledo, Ohio. He studied at the University of Toledo and enlisted in the army, serving as an army translator in Germany. Hall has always had a penchant for acting, but was initially hesitant to pursue such a risky career. Instead, after leaving the army, he returned to Ohio to work as a radio editor and high school teacher.

Holly was 30 years old when her husband encouraged her to pursue a dream. They moved to New York in 1961, and over the next decade he established a career on stage in notable performances such as the skin of our teethWith Helen Hayes and ჯბWith John Casale.

Hall made his film debut in 1970 in the role of Michelangelo Antonioni.Zabriskie Point.

In 1975, Hall moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in television and threw himself into everything: comedy (Good time, M*W*S*H, Health, empty nest), Dramaturgy (Walton’s, Los Angeles law, chicago hope, west wing, lady secretary), Secret (me quincy, matlock, Murder, Ella WrOTE, berry), Action (A man from Atlantis, ambulance!, Miami vice, whore label, kagni and lace, dark justice) and sound (postpartum blues, equipment life and lifespan, bojek knight).

Hall of Trust joined hawk crest His ninth and final season was in 1989, as Ed Myers, attorney for Michael Sharp (Gregory Harrison), and recurring roles as a doctor. ᲝFamily ties, everwood s limit your enthusiasm and as a judge civil wars s Პ Practice.

secret dignity In 1983, he landed at the Los Angeles Actors Theater and continued his success in Boston, Washington and Broadway, where he received a Hall nomination for Drama Table.

In an interview in 1988 Los Angeles TimesHall said he initially thought Nixon’s monologues were too long and turned down the role. “Then one night I had a vision of how to do this and I called Bob. [Harders, the director]“The point is, ‘The point is, a character has six ideas all the time, and they can’t understand them. He’s trying to say several things at once, many, if not all, contradictory. “It’s a nut.”

A summary of Holly’s film was also included. night race (1988), Of something (1989), Ghostbusters II (1989), one from the air force (1997), Ტ Roman Exhibition (1998), Rush hour (1998), Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), almighty bruce (2003), dogville (2003), in good company (2005), Duck (2005), 50/50 (2011), argo (2012) and The last word (2017).

He recently appeared in the Netflix series. the messiah.

Holly has been married twice and has four daughters, Anna, Adela, Trisha and Darcy, two from his first marriage to Diane Lewis and two from his second wife, Holly (they’ve been married for nearly 40 years). he told her Correspondence In a 2017 interview, he said his children were aged between 16 and 61. “It might not be a record, but it’s in the future,” he said.

Survivors also include her brother Lee and grandchildren Mike, Jeffrey, Jonathan and Caroline.