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He played "Lt. Joe Bookman", a detective pursuing a long-overdue library book in the Seinfeld episodes, "The Library" and "The Finale". [9] His first Seinfeld appearance led him to be widely lauded as one of the best guest stars on the series, and led to many other jobs.
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. [2] [3] It was considered to be one of the best guest appearances on Seinfeld, [3] and led to Hall receiving many other offers of work. [3] It was rated as one of his most memorable performances. [4]
Lt. Joe Bookman (played by Philip Baker Hall) – A library cop who pursues Jerry because of an overdue copy of Tropic of Cancer, which Jerry had borrowed in 1971. Bookman's dedication to his job and coincidental surname are cause for Jerry's dismissive attitude toward him.
The great Philip Baker Hall will forever be remembered by Seinfeld fans as the hard-nosed library detective, Mr. Bookman. Hall had a long and impressive career as one of Hollywood's top character ...
But it was on the third season of Seinfeld, as the hard-nosed library detective Lt. Joe Bookman, who was hunting down a book that Jerry had borrowed in 1971 and never returned, for which he was ...
It is the 23rd and 24th episode of the ninth season, and the 179th and the 180th episode overall. [1] The episode, written by series co-creator Larry David and directed by Andy Ackerman , originally aired on NBC on May 14, 1998, to an audience of 76 million viewers , making it so the third-most watched overall television series finale.
Seinfeld began as a 23-minute pilot titled "The Seinfeld Chronicles".Created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, developed by NBC executive Rick Ludwin, and produced by Castle Rock Entertainment, it was a mix of Seinfeld's stand-up comedy routines and idiosyncratic, conversational scenes focusing on mundane aspects of everyday life like laundry, the buttoning of the top button on one's shirt ...
The 'Inside Look' feature on the Seinfeld Season 3 DVD features Charles in an interview, talking about how he wanted to create a Jack Webb/Dragnet-style police monologue in a sitcom format, which was the inspiration for Lt. Bookman in this episode. [11] 3 "The Subway" 3 "The Fix-Up"