Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman
Biography
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.
Known For
Actor
as Himself
as Jacob
as Shifu (voice)
as Nush 'The Fixer' Berman
as Lenny Bruce (archive footage)
as Benjamin Braddock (archive footage)
as Bill
as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels (archive footage)
as Eugene
as Shifu (voice)
as Dottor Green
as Self
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Harold Meyerowitz
as Carl Bernstein (archive footage)
as Self
as Shifu (voice)
as Shifu / Warrior (voice)
as Giovanni de' Medici
as Self - Actor
as Self (archive footage)
as Bob Hamman
as Mr. Hoppy
as Self (archive footage)
as Abraham Simkin
as Master Carvelle
as Riva
as Self (archive footage)
as Shifu (Voice)
as Self (Archival Footage)
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Chester Bernstein
as Shifu (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Shifu (voice)
as Bernie Focker
as Shifu (voice)
as Izzy Panofsky
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Harvey Shine
as Roscuro (voice)
as Shifu (voice)
as Himself/Narrator
as Shifu (voice)
as Mr. Edward Magorium
as Self - Interviewee
as Self
as Dustin Hoffman (uncredited)
as Giuseppe Baldini
as Professor Jules Hilbert
as Self
as Meyer Lansky
as Self
as Tucker (voice)
as Self
as Bernie Focker
as The Critic (uncredited)
as Charles Frohman
as Bernard Jaffe
as Chuck Clarke (archive footage)
as Winston King
as Self / Ben Floss
as Self (archive footage)
as Wendell Rohr
as Self
as Ben Floss
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Benedict Arnold (voice)
as Self
as Self - Narrator
as voice
as Self
as Guide #1
as Joan's conscience
as Arturo Puig
as Self (Introduces Film) (uncredited)
as Self
as Dr. Norman Goodman
as Self - Host (segment "75 Years of Award Winners")
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Stanley Motss
as Max Brackett
as Danny Snyder
as Walt 'Teach' Teacher
as Self
as Sam Daniels
as Self
as Self
as Peter (archive footage)
as Self
as Bernard 'Bernie' Laplante
as Reader (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Milquetoast (voice)
as Dutch Schultz
as Captain Hook
as Every Lawyer
as Mumbles
as Vito McMullen
as Narrator (voice)
as Mr. Bergstrom (voice)
as Raymond Babbitt
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Chuck Clarke
as Self / Willy Loman
as Self
as Willy Loman
as Self
as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Ted Kramer
as Wally Stanton
as Max Dembo
as Babe
as Carl Bernstein
as Self
as Lenny Bruce
as Self (scenes deleted)
as Self
as Louis Dega
as Self
as Alfredo
as Self
as David Sumner
as Georgie Soloway
as Narrator / Father (first telecast)
as Self
as Jack Crabb
as Self
as Self
as John
as Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo
as Self
as Jason Fister
as Self
as Ben Braddock
as Hap
as Hanus Wicks
as Zoditch
as J.J. Semmons
as Self
as Larson
as Self (archive footage)
as Robert Burke
as Buddy
as Lester Stenton
as Finney
as Self
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Nominee/Presenter
as Self
as Self
as Self - Nominee
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Winner
Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Producer
as Producer
Director
as Director
Crew
as Thanks