Dustin Hoffman 1937 88
Dustin Hoffman 1937 88
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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2025 Tuner
2025 Tower Stories as Jacob
2025 The Revisionist
2025 Franz Kline - Remembered as Himself
2025 The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman as Himself
2025 Twiggy as Self
2024 Megalopolis as Nush 'The Fixer' Berman
2024 Kung Fu Panda 4 as Shifu (voice)
2023 Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback as Benjamin Braddock (archive footage)
2022 Sam & Kate as Bill
2022 Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon as Self
2022 PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels (archive footage)
2022 As They Made Us as Eugene
2021 Mr. Saturday Night
2020 Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure... as Self
2019 Into the Labyrinth as Dottor Green Executive Producer
2019 Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
2019 Hal as Self
2017 The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee as Self (archive footage)
2017 The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) as Harold Meyerowitz
2017 Spielberg as Self
2016 All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone as Carl Bernstein (archive footage)
2016 Mike Nichols: An American Master as Self
2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 as Shifu (voice)
2016 Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll as Shifu / Warrior (voice)
2015 Brooklyn Thanks
2015 Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century as Self - Actor
2015 Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
2015 The Program as Bob Hamman
2015 Boychoir as Master Carvelle
2015 Roald Dahl's Esio Trot as Mr. Hoppy
2014 Led Zeppelin Played Here as Self (archive footage)
2014 The Cobbler as Abraham Simkin
2014 Chef as Riva
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2013 Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection as Shifu (Voice)
2013 All the President's Men Revisited as Self
2012 Quartet Director, Executive Producer
2012 Casting By as Self (Archival Footage)
2012 La Classe américaine as Self
2012 Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2011 Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters as Shifu (voice)
2011 Paul Williams Still Alive as Self (archive footage)
2011 Kung Fu Panda 2 as Shifu (voice)
2010 Little Fockers as Bernie Focker
2010 Kung Fu Panda Holiday as Shifu (voice)
2010 Barney's Version as Izzy Panofsky
2010 Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story as Narrator (voice)
2010 Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2009 Against the Tide as Narrator
2009 Dustin!
2008 Last Chance Harvey as Harvey Shine
2008 The Tale of Despereaux as Roscuro (voice)
2008 Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben as Self
2008 Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five as Shifu (voice)
2008 Visual Acoustics as Himself/Narrator
2008 Kung Fu Panda as Shifu (voice)
2008 A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' as Self
2007 Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium as Mr. Edward Magorium
2007 Trumbo as Self - Interviewee
2006 The Holiday as Dustin Hoffman
2006 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer as Giuseppe Baldini
2006 Stranger Than Fiction as Professor Jules Hilbert
2006 Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" as Self
2006 Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film as Self
2005 Earth to America as Self
2005 The Lost City as Meyer Lansky
2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
2005 Racing Stripes as Tucker (voice)
2004 Meet the Fockers as Bernie Focker
2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as The Critic (uncredited)
2004 Finding Neverland as Charles Frohman
2004 I ♥ Huckabees as Bernard Jaffe
2004 The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made as Chuck Clarke (archive footage)
2004 After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
2003 Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies as Host
2003 Confidence as Winston King
2003 Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen as Self / Ben Floss
2003 Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut as Self (archive footage)
2003 Runaway Jury as Wendell Rohr
2002 Moonlight Mile as Ben Floss
2002 The Kid Stays in the Picture as Self (archive footage)
2002 There's Only One Paul McCartney as Self
2002 Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film as Self (uncredited archive footage: 1975 BBC interview)
2001 Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies as Self - Narrator
2001 Tuesday as voice
2001 Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' as Self
2001 Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' as Self
1999 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc as Joan's conscience
1999 Tato's Argentina as Arturo Puig
1999 The Devil's Arithmetic as Self (Introduces Film) (uncredited) Executive Producer
1999 A Walk on the Moon Producer
1999 Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
1998 Tarzan and the Lost City Producer
1998 Sphere as Dr. Norman Goodman
1998 Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory as Self - Host (segment "75 Years of Award Winners")
1997 Wag the Dog as Stanley Motss
1997 Mad City as Max Brackett
1996 Sleepers as Danny Snyder
1996 American Buffalo as Walt 'Teach' Teacher
1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self
1995 Outbreak as Sam Daniels
1994 Jonas in the Desert as Self
1993 La Classe américaine as Peter (archive footage)
1993 Aretha Franklin: Duets as Self
1992 Hero as Bernard 'Bernie' Laplante
1992 Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
1992 'The Graduate' at 25 as Self
1991 A Wish for Wings That Work as Milquetoast (voice)
1991 Billy Bathgate as Dutch Schultz
1991 Hook as Captain Hook
1990 The Earth Day Special as Every Lawyer
1990 Dick Tracy as Mumbles
1990 Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey as Self
1989 Family Business as Vito McMullen
1989 Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt as Narrator (voice)
1988 Rain Man as Raymond Babbitt
1987 Ishtar as Chuck Clarke
1986 Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ as Self / Willy Loman
1985 Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
1985 Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1982 Tootsie as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
1982 Strokes of Genius: de Kooning on de Kooning as Himself
1982 Night of 100 Stars as Self
1982 The Making of 'Tootsie' as Self
1980 The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's as Self (archive footage)
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer as Ted Kramer
1979 Agatha as Wally Stanton Producer
1978 Straight Time as Max Dembo
1977 Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back as Self
1976 Marathon Man as Babe
1976 The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People as Self
1976 All the President's Men as Carl Bernstein
1976 Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men' as Self
1975 Lost in the Garden of the World as Self
1974 Lenny as Lenny Bruce
1974 Free to Be… You and Me as Self (scenes deleted)
1973 Papillon as Louis Dega
1973 The Magnificent Rebel as Self
1972 Alfredo, Alfredo as Alfredo
1971 On Location: Dustin Hoffman as Self
1971 Straw Dogs as David Sumner
1971 Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? as Georgie Soloway
1971 The Point as Narrator / Father (first telecast)
1970 Little Big Man as Jack Crabb
1970 Arthur Penn: The Director as Self
1969 John and Mary as John
1969 Midnight Cowboy as Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo
1969 The Crowd Around the Cowboy as Self
1968 Madigan's Millions as Jason Fister
1968 The New Cinema as Self
1967 The Graduate as Ben Braddock
1967 The Tiger Makes Out as Hap
1966 The Star Wagon as Hanus Wicks
1966 The Journey of the Fifth Horse as Zoditch
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7.51 Western 1
7.26 TV Movie 20
7.25 Music 8
6.84 Documentary 54
6.76 Animation 14
6.76 Thriller 12
6.75 Fantasy 11
6.72 History 6
6.71 Family 17
6.63 Drama 43
6.59 Comedy 47
6.54 Mystery 5
6.50 Crime 12
6.47 Romance 18
6.40 Adventure 12
6.39 War 1
6.36 Action 12
6.10 Horror 1
5.97 Science Fiction 3