The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
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Jun 13, 2022 · Hall stole the show when he played library investigations officer Lt. Joe Bookman in the season three episode “The Library.” Jerry ( Jerry Seinfeld) learns that the copy of Tropic of Cancer he...
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Jun 14, 2022 · Hall appears in the 22nd episode, airing Oct. 16, 1991, early in the third season when Seinfeld and co-creator Larry David were still monkeying with the recipe.
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Jun 15, 2022 · Philip Baker Hall had one of his most memorable roles in a single episode of Seinfeld. Hall’s deadpan delivery created the funniest single episode character in the series. Collider
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Philip Baker Hall's role as a lieutenant, whom he played in imitation of Jack Webb's Sergeant Joe Friday of Dragnet fame, was very well received. It was considered to be one of the best guest appearances on Seinfeld, and led to Hall receiving many other offers of work. It was rated as one of his most memorable performances.
Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't HE deserve better? Look.
In the 1980s, Hall co-starred in various films in supporting roles, including Nothing in Common (1986), Midnight Run (1988), Say Anything... and Ghostbusters II (both 1989). He played "Lt. Joe Bookman", a detective pursuing a long-overdue library book in the Seinfeld episodes, "The Library" and "The Finale". [9]
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The Library: Directed by Joshua White. With Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander. The library asks Jerry about a book he checked out in 1971 and never returned, so Jerry looks up an old girlfriend for his defense against a library cop.
