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His death was confirmed by his assistant, Joyce Cohen, on Monday night, to theNew YorkTimes.

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Holbrooks had a long, varied career in the arts.

Holbrook had the range to be a regular on 1980s sitcomDesigning Womenand take on Shakespeares King Lear.

Seven years later, he won a Tony Award for his first Broadway run.

Holbrook was only 29 when he started playing a 70-year-old Mark Twain.

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