Philip Baker Hall, the prolific character actor of film and theatre who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's first movies and memorably hunted down a long-overdue library book in Seinfeld, has died.
The actor’s wife says Philip Baker Hall died on Sunday surrounded by loved ones at his home in California
Holly Wolfle Hall, the actor's wife of nearly 40 years, said on Monday he died on Sunday surrounded by loved ones in Glendale, California. "Men who are highly stressed, older men who are at the limit of their tolerance for suffering and stress and pain — I had an affinity for playing those roles," Hall told the Washington Post in 2017.
Anderson, believing Hall had not gotten his due in film, asked him to look at a script he had written for a 20-minute short film titled Cigarettes & Coffee. Anderson would cast Hall again as adult film theatre magnate Floyd Gondolli who warns Burt Reynolds's pornography producer about the industry's future in Boogie Nights."I have a particular fascination with character actors, with wanting to turn them into lead actors," Anderson told The Los Angeles Times in 1998.
Hall played him like a hard-boiled noir detective, telling Seinfeld: "Well, I got a flash for ya, Joy-boy: Party time is over."
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