Dustin Hoffman
Acting
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.
Tuner
Harry Horowitz
TOVAH
Self
Megadoc
Self
Twiggy
Self
Megalopolis
Nush 'The Fixer' Berman
Kung Fu Panda 4
Shifu (voice)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Benjamin Braddock (archive footage)
Sam & Kate
Bill
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
Self
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels (archive footage)
As They Made Us
Eugene
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
Self
Into the Labyrinth
Dottor Green
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
Hal
Self
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Harold Meyerowitz
Spielberg
Self
Steve McQueen: American Icon
Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Carl Bernstein (archive footage)
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Self
Kung Fu Panda 3
Shifu (voice)
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
Shifu / Warrior (voice)
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Self - Actor
The Program
Bob Hamman
Boychoir
Master Carvelle
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
Mr. Hoppy
Led Zeppelin Played Here
Self (archive footage)
The Cobbler
Abraham Simkin
Chef
Riva
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
Shifu (Voice)
All the President's Men Revisited
Self
La Classe américaine
Self
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
Shifu (voice)
Kung Fu Panda 2
Shifu (voice)
Little Fockers
Bernie Focker
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
Shifu (voice)
Barney's Version
Izzy Panofsky
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
Narrator (voice)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Against the Tide
Narrator
Dustin!
Last Chance Harvey
Harvey Shine
The Tale of Despereaux
Roscuro (voice)
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
Self
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
Shifu (voice)
Visual Acoustics
Self - Narrator
Kung Fu Panda
Shifu (voice)
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Self
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Mr. Edward Magorium
Trumbo
Self - Interviewee
The Holiday
Dustin Hoffman (uncredited)
Stranger Than Fiction
Professor Jules Hilbert
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Giuseppe Baldini
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
Self
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
Self
Earth to America
Self
The Lost City
Meyer Lansky
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Racing Stripes
Tucker (voice)
Meet the Fockers
Bernie Focker
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Critic (uncredited)
Finding Neverland
Charles Frohman
I ♥ Huckabees
Bernard Jaffe
After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies
Host
Confidence
Winston King
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
Self / Ben Floss
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
Self (archive footage)
Runaway Jury
Wendell Rohr
The Shakespeare Sessions
Moonlight Mile
Ben Floss
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Self
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Self - Narrator
Tuesday
voice
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
Self
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Self
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Joan's conscience
The Devil's Arithmetic
Self (Introduces Film) (uncredited)
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
Sphere
Dr. Norman Goodman
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory
Self - Host (segment "75 Years of Award Winners")
Wag the Dog
Stanley Motss
Mad City
Max Brackett
Sleepers
Danny Snyder
American Buffalo
Walt 'Teach' Teacher
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
Outbreak
Sam Daniels
Jonas in the Desert
Self
La Classe américaine
Peter (archive footage)
Aretha Franklin: Duets
Self
Hero
Bernard 'Bernie' Laplante
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
'The Graduate' at 25
Self
Billy Bathgate
Dutch Schultz
Hook
Captain Hook
Dick Tracy
Mumbles
The Earth Day Special
Every Lawyer
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Self
Family Business
Vito McMullen
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Narrator (voice)
Rain Man
Raymond Babbitt
Ishtar
Chuck Clarke
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self / Willy Loman
Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Tootsie
Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
Strokes of Genius: de Kooning on de Kooning
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Strokes of Genius: Arshile Gorky
Self
The Making of 'Tootsie'
Self
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
Self (archive footage)
Kramer vs. Kramer
Ted Kramer
Agatha
Wally Stanton
Straight Time
Max Dembo
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
Self
Marathon Man
Thomas 'Babe' Levy
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
Self
All the President's Men
Carl Bernstein
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
Self
Lost in the Garden of the World
Self
Lenny
Lenny Bruce
Free to Be… You and Me
Self (scenes deleted)
Papillon
Louis Dega
The Magnificent Rebel
Self
Alfredo, Alfredo
Alfredo
On Location: Dustin Hoffman
Self
Straw Dogs
David Sumner
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Georgie Soloway
The Point
Narrator / Father (first telecast)
The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman
Self
Little Big Man
Jack Crabb
Arthur Penn: The Director
Self
John and Mary
John
Midnight Cowboy
Ratso
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
Self
Madigan's Millions
Jason Fister
The New Cinema
Self
The Graduate
Ben Braddock
The Tiger Makes Out
Hap
The Star Wagon
Hanus Wicks
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
Zoditch