Philip Baker Hall

Some people are born sexy. Others are people that you wouldn't look twice at when they were younger, but out of nowhere, become totally fuckable. The man in question is Philip Baker Hall. In any given year, if you were to randomly stroll into a movie theater without knowing what you were seeing, there’s a damn fine chance Philip Baker Hall may grace the screen at some point during the film. Hall is one of those character actors whom you see all the time but don’t necessarily recognize.

After I first took notice of the guy, it seemed like he was everywhere. It's astonishing to consider that Hall is just in his 80th decade, not because he doesn't look it, but because he's looked that way for at least twenty years. Not that he’s ever looked ‘young’, he seems to have always had that rugged, wise, ‘old genial’ man appearance. I'd like to think that he sprung into the world fully formed, like Athena. A few directors have been smart enough to cast Hall as the lead, and with his trademark red, sunken eyes, short stature and raspy, slurred speech, there’s simply no forgetting a Hall performance, no matter the amount of time he’s on.

Though he has appeared in more than 100 movies and television shows, consummate character actor Philip Baker Hall says he is still most often recognized as Lt. Bookman, the tough-talking library cop he immortalized in a 1991 episode of "Seinfeld." It makes sense in a way, as Bookman was a classic Hall character: gruff, authoritative, and utterly no-nonsense. It's a persona he's perfected over his lengthy career. Avoiding publicity, he has rarely granted interviews and has divulged almost no personal information. I guess it's unlikely that we will ever get leaked sex tapes of him, but I can dream and I do, A LOT!

I first took notice of  Hall on The FOX series, "The Loop" (a sitcom about an airline) with a memorable shower scene and I have kept an eye on him ever since.