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Dustin Hoffman
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Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. Actor Robert De Niro described him as "an actor with the everyman's face who embodied the heartbreakingly human". At a young age Hoffman knew he wanted to study in the arts, and entered into the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music; later he decided to go into acting, for which he trained at the Pasadena Playhouse in Los Angeles. His first theatrical performance was 1961's A Cook for Mr. General as Ridzinski. During that time he appeared in several guest roles on television shows like Naked City and The Defenders. He then star…
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Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. Actor Robert De Niro described him as "an actor with the everyman's face who embodied the heartbreakingly human". At a young age Hoffman knew he wanted to study in the arts, and entered into the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music; later he decided to go into acting, for which he trained at the Pasadena Playhouse in Los Angeles. His first theatrical performance was 1961's A Cook for Mr. General as Ridzinski. During that time he appeared in several guest roles on television shows like Naked City and The Defenders. He then starred in the 1966 off-Broadway play Eh? where his performance garnered him both a Theatre World Award and Drama Desk Award. His breakthrough role was as Benjamin Braddock in Mike Nichols' critically acclaimed and iconic film The Graduate (1967), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. His next role was "Ratso" Rizzo in John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (1969), in which he acted alongside Jon Voight; they both received Oscar nominations, and the film went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. He gained success in the 1970s playing roles that shaped the craft of his acting, crossing genres effortlessly in the western Little Big Man (1970), the prison drama Papillon (1973), playing a controversial and groundbreaking comedian in Bob Fosse's Lenny (1975), Marathon Man alongside Laurence Olivier (1976), and as Carl Bernstein investigating the Watergate scandal in All the President's Men (1976). In 1979, Hoffman starred in the family drama Kramer vs. Kramer alongside Meryl Streep. They both received Academy Awards for their performances. After a three-year break from films, Hoffman returned in Sydney Pollack's show business comedy Tootsie (1982) about a struggling actor who pretends to be a woman in order to get an acting role. He returned to stage acting with a 1984 performance as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman and reprised the role a year later in a television film earning a Primetime Emmy Award. In 1987 he starred alongside Warren Beatty in Elaine May's comedy Ishtar. He won his second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the autistic savant Ray Babbitt in the 1988 film Rain Man, co-starring Tom Cruise. In 1989, he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for playing Shylock in a stage performance of The Merchant of Venice. In the 1990s, he made appearances in such films as Warren Beatty's action comedy adaptation Dick Tracy (1990), Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991) as Captain Hook, medical disaster Outbreak (1995), legal crime drama Sleepers (1996), and the satirical black comedy Wag the Dog (1997) alongside Robert De Niro.
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Hook: Never, Never Ending
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
The Revisionist
Tuner
as Harry Horowitz
Diamond
as Dr. Harry Kleiman
TOVAH
as Self
Megadoc
as Self
Twiggy
as Self
Megalopolis
as Nush 'The Fixer' Berman
Kung Fu Panda 4
as Shifu (voice)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
as Benjamin Braddock (archive footage)
Sam & Kate
as Bill
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
as Self
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels (archive footage)
As They Made Us
as Eugene
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
as Self
Into the Labyrinth
as Dottor Green
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
Hal
as Self
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
as Harold Meyerowitz
Spielberg
as Self
Steve McQueen: American Icon
as Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Carl Bernstein (archive footage)
Mike Nichols: An American Master
as Self
Kung Fu Panda 3
as Shifu (voice)
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
as Shifu / Warrior (voice)
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
as Self - Actor
The Program
as Bob Hamman
Boychoir
as Master Carvelle
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
as Mr. Hoppy
Led Zeppelin Played Here
as Self (archive footage)
The Cobbler
as Abraham Simkin
Chef
as Riva
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
as Shifu (voice)
All the President's Men Revisited
as Self
La Classe américaine
as Self
Close Up
as Self (archive footage)
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
as Shifu (voice)
Kung Fu Panda 2
as Shifu (voice)
Little Fockers
as Bernie Focker
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
as Shifu (voice)
Barney's Version
as Izzy Panofsky
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
as Narrator (voice)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Against the Tide
as Narrator
Dustin!
Last Chance Harvey
as Harvey Shine
The Tale of Despereaux
as Roscuro (voice)
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
as Self
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
as Shifu (voice)
Visual Acoustics
as Self - Narrator
Kung Fu Panda
as Shifu (voice)
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
as Mr. Edward Magorium
Trumbo
as Self - Interviewee
The Holiday
as Dustin Hoffman (uncredited)
Stranger Than Fiction
as Professor Jules Hilbert
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
as Giuseppe Baldini
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
as Self
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
as Self
Earth to America
as Self
The Lost City
as Meyer Lansky
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Racing Stripes
as Tucker (voice)
Meet the Fockers
as Bernie Focker
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
as The Critic (uncredited)
Finding Neverland
as Charles Frohman
The Best of So Graham Norton
as Self (archive footage)
I ♥ Huckabees
as Bernard Jaffe
No Poster
After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
Runaway Jury
as Wendell Rohr
No Poster
Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies
as Host
Confidence
as Winston King
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
as Self / Ben Floss
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
The Shakespeare Sessions
Moonlight Mile
as Ben Floss
There's Only One Paul McCartney
as Self
Heart of the Festival
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
as Self - Narrator
Tuesday
as voice
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
as Self
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
as Self
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as Joan's conscience
The Devil's Arithmetic
as Self (Introduces Film) (uncredited)
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
Sphere
as Dr. Norman Goodman
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory
as Self - Host (segment "75 Years of Award Winners")
Wag the Dog
as Stanley Motss
Mad City
as Max Brackett
Sleepers
as Danny Snyder
American Buffalo
as Walt 'Teach' Teacher
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self
Outbreak
as Sam Daniels
Jonas in the Desert
as Self
La Classe américaine
as Peter (archive footage)
Aretha Franklin: Duets
as Self
Hero
as Bernard 'Bernie' Laplante
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
'The Graduate' at 25
as Self
The Graduate at 25
as Himself
Billy Bathgate
as Dutch Schultz
Hook
as Captain Hook
Dick Tracy
as Mumbles
The Earth Day Special
as Every Lawyer
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
as Self
Family Business
as Vito McMullen
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
as Narrator (voice)
Rain Man
as Raymond Babbitt
Ishtar
as Chuck Clarke
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
as Self / Willy Loman
Death of a Salesman
as Willy Loman
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
Tootsie
as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
Strokes of Genius: de Kooning on de Kooning
as Self
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
No Poster
Strokes of Genius: Arshile Gorky
as Self
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
as Self (archive footage)
Kramer vs. Kramer
as Ted Kramer
Agatha
as Wally Stanton
Straight Time
as Max Dembo
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
as Self
Marathon Man
as Thomas 'Babe' Levy
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
as Self
All the President's Men
as Carl Bernstein
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
as Self
Dick Smith Make Up Artist
as Self
Lost in the Garden of the World
as Self
Lenny
as Lenny Bruce
Free to Be… You and Me
as Self (scenes deleted)
Papillon
as Louis Dega
The Magnificent Rebel
as Self
Alfredo, Alfredo
as Alfredo
On Location: Dustin Hoffman
as Self
Straw Dogs
as David Sumner
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
as Georgie Soloway
The Point
as Narrator / Father (voice)
The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman
as Self
Little Big Man
as Jack Crabb
Arthur Penn: The Director
as Self
John and Mary
as John
Midnight Cowboy
as Ratso
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
as Self
Madigan's Millions
as Jason Fister
The New Cinema
as Self
The Graduate
as Ben Braddock
The Tiger Makes Out
as Hap
The Star Wagon
as Hanus Wicks
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
as Zoditch
Tower Stories
as Jacob
Franz Kline - Remembered
as Self