Dustin Hoffman actor
- All known tv series 46
- Total known movies 149
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 everymans 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 1961s 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 Schlesingers 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 Fosses Lenny (1975), Marathon Man alongside Laurence Olivier (1976), and as Carl Bernstein investigating the Watergate scandal in All the Presidents 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 Pollacks 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 Mays 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 Beattys action comedy adaptation Dick Tracy (1990), Steven Spielbergs 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.
David Sumner
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Walt 'Teach' Teacher
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Lenny Bruce
Movie 1974
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John
Movie 1969
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Narrator
Movie 2010
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Movie 1976
Narrator
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Benjamin Braddock (archive footage)
Movie 2023
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Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels (archive footage)
Movie 2022
Himself
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Jacob
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Host
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Movie 1968
Every Lawyer
Movie 1990
Chuck Clarke (archive footage)
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Movie 2006
Narrator / Father (first telecast)
Movie 1971
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Movie 2019
Dustin Hoffman (uncredited)
Movie 2006
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Movie 1970
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Movie 1989
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Movie 1971
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Movie 1976
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Movie 1975
The Critic (uncredited)
Movie 2004
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Movie 1992
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Arturo Puig
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Movie 1986
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Movie 2025
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Tv 1982
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Tv 1956
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Tv 1944
Self (archive footage)
Tv 1998
Self - Winner
Tv 1944
Lenny Bruce (archive footage)
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