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Albert Hall

Acting

Born November 10, 1937 · Brighton, Alabama, U.S.

Biography

Albert P. Hall (born November 10, 1937) is an American actor. Born in Brighton, Alabama, Hall graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts in 1971. That same year he appeared Off-Broadway in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and on Broadway in the Melvin Van Peebles musical Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. His most famous film role to date is probably that of Chief Phillips in Francis Ford Coppola's award-winning Apocalypse Now. Contemporary audiences may recognise Hall as stern judge Seymore Walsh, a recurring guest-role, on Ally McBeal and The Practice. Hall also has made guest appearances on Kojak, Miami Vice, Matlock, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Strong Medicine, 24, Sleeper Cell and Grey's Anatomy.

Filmography41 titles

Star Trek: The Next Generation

1987as Galek Dar

Half & Half

2002as Justice Harrison Todd

Apocalypse Now

1979as Chief Phillips

Grey's Anatomy

2005as Eugene Foote

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

1991as Self

Roc

1991as Harold

M*A*S*H

1972as Corporal

24

2001as Alan Milliken

ER

1994as James Anderson

Men of a Certain Age

2009as Bruce

The Practice

1997as Seymore Walsh

Malcolm X

1992as Baines

Private Practice

2007as Lewis Cartwright

Miami Vice

1984as Joe Dalva

Sanford and Son

1972

Strong Medicine

2000as Reverend Hayes

Roots: The Next Generations

1979as Vernon

New York Undercover

1994

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

as Otis Jefferson

Music Box

1989as Mack Jones

Freddy's Nightmares

1988as Colonel Delaney

Kojak

1973as Det. Gregg

Matlock

1986as Assistant D.A. Corbalis

A Different World

1987as Chaplain

Ali

2001as Elijah Muhammad

Ally McBeal

1997as Seymore Walsh

Courage Under Fire

1996as Speaker

Major Payne

1995as Gen. Decker

Devil in a Blue Dress

1995as Degan Odell

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

2007as Nichols

Leadbelly

1976as Dicklicker

Willie Dynamite

1973as Pointer

Rookie of the Year

1993as Sal Martinella

Betrayed

1988as Al Sanders

Separate but Equal

as Oliver Hill

Honeydripper

2007as Reverend Cutlip

Beloved

1998as Stamp Paid

Trouble in Mind

1985as Leo

The Long Hot Summer

as Armistead Howlett

The Great White Hype

1996as Roper's Manager

The Cold Equations

1996as Captain Keynes