Albert Hall: Albert Hall. Actor: Malcolm X. Albert P. Hall was born November 10, 1937 in the small town of Brighton, Alabama. He attended Columbia University and graduated in 1971. His most famous film role was probably in 1979 as Chief Phillips in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979). Contemporary audiences will probably recognize Hall as stern judge Seymore Walsh, a recurring guest-role on both Ally McBeal (1997) and The Practice (1997)....