Or Jason Robards. I'd also assumed he'd passed already, but 90 is a great run. Looking through his filmography, so many in the 90's I'd forgotten about.

It’s kind of crazy. His filmography goes back to the 70s but it was mostly bit parts in movies and guest spots on TV shows. His career didn’t take off (or at least found a second life) until the 90s when he was already in his late 60s.

It was not on my viewing list but now it is after Halls passing

great movie.

This was the movie where I first 'noticed' him, as I'm sure other folks did at the time, despite having unwittingly seen him in smaller film and TV roles over the years. After that, his name suddenly popped a bit more in the credits of subsequent productions. Got it as a VHS screener that year (did it even play theatrically?) for a newspaper column and was not expecting something so solid for what I assumed was a direct-to-video burial. It was one of those rare pictures that put an obviously 'mature' actor front and center and you suddenly wonder if you've been completely ignorant of some long-time A-lister because maybe you just hadn't watched a broad enough variety of movies. But then I checked his filmography (somehow, as I'm not sure what shape IMDB was in at the time) and realized what a smart choice Anderson had made plucking this guy from the outfield, more or less. Made me wonder how many other actors of Hall's ilk never got that kind of break, even later in life, but just kept toiling away in small roles because it paid the bills.

Looks like Hard Eight is streaming on Prime, in Canada.

Based on all the praise, here, I'll give it a watch!

A shame it is not available on Blu-ray and only as a import.