The ultimate late-bloomer, Philip Baker Hall is one of the few actors ever to achieve Hollywood stardom after the age of 60. The Ohio-born New York stage actor was nearly 40 when he debuted in "Cowards" (1970), an anti-war picture which made little impact, and it was 1975 before he finally moved to L.A., realizing that "all my friends were in Hollywood." Even there, he worked primarily on the stage, savoring juicy roles in "The Petrified Forest" and the Arthur Miller triumvirate ("All My Sons", "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible"), while paying the bills with unglamorously small roles in
