Search results
People also ask
Who plays Nixon in 'secret honor'?
Is secret honor based on a true story?
Who plays Nixon in 'Battlestar Gatsby'?
Is Robert Altman's secret honor based on a true story?
Secret Honor is a 1984 American historical drama film directed by Robert Altman, written by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and starring Philip Baker Hall. It is based on the play, and follows Richard Nixon as a fictional account attempting to gain insight. [2] [3] It was filmed at the University of Michigan, [4] in the Martha Cook Building's ...
Secret Honor: Directed by Robert Altman. With Philip Baker Hall. A fictionalized former President Richard M. Nixon offers a solitary, stream-of-consciousness reflection on his life and political career - and the "true" reasons for the Watergate scandal and his resignation.
- (3.4K)
- Biography, Comedy, Drama
- Robert Altman
- 1986-01-29
Jun 14, 2022 · The late actor Philip Baker Hall played Richard Nixon in the one-man show ‘Secret Honor,’ which director Robert Altman adapted into a film.
- Chris Stanton
- Copy Editor, New York Magazine
Based on the original play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and starring Philip Baker Hall in a tour de force solo performance, Robert Altman’s Secret Honor is a searing interrogation of the Nixon mystique and an audacious depiction of unchecked paranoia.
- President Richard M. Nixon
Nov 7, 2023 · Secret Honor stars Philip Baker Hall as Richard Nixon, years after being disgracefully exiled from the political world. As Nixon paces in his lavish study, a drunken and manic unraveling...
- Daniel Cruse
- Author
Nixon is portrayed by Philip Baker Hall, an actor previously unknown to me, with such savage intensity, such passion, such venom, such scandal, that we cannot turn away. Hall looks a little like the real Nixon; he could be a cousin, and he sounds a little like him. That’s close enough. This is not an impersonation, it’s a performance.
Apr 16, 2020 · Secret Honor’s writers, Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, however, give us a Nixon who imagines himself Hamlet, even having played the part in a high school theatrical. (“Dr. (“Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.”)
