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Dustin Hoffman

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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Born:
Aug 8, 1937 In Los Angeles, California, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
190
First Appeared:
In the movie Lucca Mortis
Latest Project:
Movie Megalopolis 2025
Known For
Filmography
Movie Megalopolis Unknown 2025
Movie Lucca Mortis Jacob 2025
Series Premiere Arthur Greene 2025
Movie The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman Himself 2025
Movie Riff Raff 2025
Movie Kung Fu Panda 4 Shifu (voice) 2024-03-02
Movie Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback Benjamin Braddock (archive footage) 2023-07-30
Movie Becoming Al Pacino Self (archive footage) 2022-02-06
Movie PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels (archive footage) 2022-06-09
Series Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight Shifu (voice) 2022-07-14
Movie As They Made Us Eugene 2022-04-08
Movie Sam & Kate Bill 2022-11-11
Movie Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon Self 2022-09-06
Movie Mr. Saturday Night 2021-11-13
Movie Disclosure Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels (archive footage) 2020-06-19
Movie Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure... Self 2020-12-28
Movie Into the Labyrinth Dottor Green 2019-10-30
Movie Hal Self 2019-03-28
Movie Alan Pakula: Going for Truth Self 2019-10-12
Movie The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee Self (archive footage) 2017-12-04
Movie The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Harold Meyerowitz 2017-10-13
Movie Spielberg Self 2017-10-05
Movie Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll Shifu / Warrior (voice) 2016-01-05
Movie Mike Nichols: An American Master Self 2016-01-29
Movie All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone Carl Bernstein (archive footage) 2016-11-04
Series Medici: Masters of Florence Giovanni de' Medici 2016-10-18
Movie Kung Fu Panda 3 Shifu (voice) 2016-01-23
Movie Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood Self (archive footage) 2015-10-04
Movie Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century Self - Actor 2015-10-17
Movie The Program Bob Hamman 2015-09-16
Movie Roald Dahl's Esio Trot Mr. Hoppy 2015-01-02
Movie And the Oscar Goes To... Self (archive footage) 2014-02-01
Movie Chef Riva 2014-05-08
Movie Led Zeppelin Played Here Self (archive footage) 2014-10-11
Movie The Cobbler Abraham Simkin 2014-09-11
Movie Boychoir Master Carvelle 2014-09-04
Series Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Self 2014-12-21
Movie All the President's Men Revisited Self 2013-04-21
Series Luck Chester Bernstein 2012-01-29
Series Finding Your Roots Self 2012-03-24
Movie La Classe américaine Self 2012-10-05
Movie Close Up Self (archive footage) 2012-09-30
Movie Casting By Self (Archival Footage) 2012-11-01
Movie Kung Fu Panda 2 Shifu (voice) 2011-05-25
Movie Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters Shifu (voice) 2011-12-12
Movie Paul Williams Still Alive Self (archive footage) 2011-09-11
Movie Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story Narrator 2010-01-01
Movie Kung Fu Panda Holiday Shifu (voice) 2010-11-26
Movie Little Fockers Bernie Focker 2010-12-21
Movie Barney's Version Izzy Panofsky 2010-10-26
Movie Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 2010-05-05
Movie Against the Tide Narrator 2009-09-09
Movie Dustin! 2009-01-01
Movie The Tale of Despereaux Roscuro (voice) 2008-12-18
Movie Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben Self 2008-12-16
Movie A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' Self 2008-02-05
Movie Kung Fu Panda Shifu (voice) 2008-06-04
Movie Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five Shifu (voice) 2008-11-08
Movie Visual Acoustics Himself/Narrator 2008-06-22
Movie Last Chance Harvey Harvey Shine 2008-12-25
Movie Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium Mr. Edward Magorium 2007-11-14
Series The Graham Norton Show Self 2007-02-22
Movie Trumbo Self / Interviewee 2007-09-10
Movie Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film Self 2006-02-21
Movie Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" Self 2006-02-28
Movie Stranger Than Fiction Professor Jules Hilbert 2006-09-09
Movie Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Giuseppe Baldini 2006-09-13
Series Rachael Ray Unknown 2006-09-18
Movie The Holiday Dustin Hoffman (uncredited) 2006-12-08
Movie La ciudad perdida Unknown 2005-01-02
Movie Racing Stripes Tucker (voice) 2005-01-06
Movie Gottschalk meets Petersen Himself 2005-05-14
Movie Rumor Has It... Benjamin Braddock (uncredited) 2005-12-22
Movie Earth to America Self 2005-11-20
Series The Reichen Show Self 2005-11-11
Movie The Lost City Meyer Lansky 2005-09-03
Movie Nos Bastidores de Hollywood Self 2005-03-01
Movie Meet the Fockers Bernie Focker 2004-12-22
Movie Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events The Critic (uncredited) 2004-12-16
Movie Finding Neverland Charles Frohman 2004-10-17
Movie I ♥ Huckabees Bernard Jaffe 2004-09-10
Movie Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies Host 2003-10-01
Movie The Shakespeare Sessions 2003-01-01
Movie Runaway Jury Wendell Rohr 2003-01-16
Series The Ellen DeGeneres Show Self 2003-09-08
Movie Confidence Winston King 2003-04-25
Movie Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut Self (archive footage) 2003-03-08
Series V Graham Norton Self 2002-05-06
Movie There's Only One Paul McCartney Self 2002-06-02
Movie The Kid Stays in the Picture Self (archive footage) 2002-08-16
Series Liberty's Kids Benedict Arnold 2002-09-02
Movie Moonlight Mile Ben Floss 2002-09-09
Movie Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' Self 2001-02-20
Series Big Brother's Little Brother Self 2001-05-29
Movie Tuesday voice 2001-09-04
Movie Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' Self 2001-08-28
Movie Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies Self - Narrator 2001-10-07
Series Curb Your Enthusiasm Guide #1 2000-10-15
Movie Being John Malkovich Willy Loman (uncredited) 1999-10-29
Movie The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc Joan's conscience 1999-10-27
Movie The Devil's Arithmetic Self (Introduces Film) (uncredited) 1999-03-28
Movie Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years 1999-01-01
Series The Directors Unknown 1999-01-01
Movie Tato's Argentina Arturo Puig 1999-04-07
Movie Sphere Dr. Norman Goodman 1998-02-13
Series AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies Self 1998-06-23
Movie Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory Self - Host (segment "75 Years of Award Winners") 1998-01-01
Movie Wag the Dog Stanley Motss 1997-12-25
Movie Mad City Max Brackett 1997-11-07
Movie Sleepers Danny Snyder 1996-10-18
Movie American Buffalo Walt 'Teach' Teacher 1996-09-13
Series The Daily Show Self 1996-07-22
Movie The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies Self 1995-06-05
Movie Outbreak Sam Daniels 1995-03-10
Series MADtv Self 1995-10-14
Movie Jonas in the Desert Himself 1994-01-01
Movie La Classe américaine Peter (archive footage) 1993-12-31
Movie Aretha Franklin: Duets Self 1993-05-09
Movie 'The Graduate' at 25 Self 1992-01-01
Series HBO First Look Unknown 1992-06-12
Movie Hero Bernard 'Bernie' Laplante 1992-10-02
Movie Earth and the American Dream Reader (voice) 1992-10-01
Series Coucou c'est nous ! Self 1992-09-22
Series The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Unknown 1992-05-25
Movie A Wish for Wings That Work Milquetoast (voice) 1991-12-18
Movie Hook Captain James Hook / Captain Crochet (voice) 1991-04-10
Movie Billy Bathgate Dutch Schultz 1991-11-01
Movie Dick Tracy Mumbles 1990-04-05
Movie Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey Self 1990-01-19
Movie The Earth Day Special Every Lawyer 1990-04-22
Movie Family Business Vito McMullen 1989-12-06
Series The Simpsons Mr. Bergstrom (voice) 1989-12-17
Movie Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt Narrator (voice) 1989-12-01
Movie Rain Man Raymond Babbitt 1988-12-12
Series This Morning Self 1988-10-03
Series LIVE with Kelly and Mark Unknown 1988-09-05
Movie Ishtar Chuck Clarke 1987-05-15
Series American Masters Self 1986-06-23
Movie Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ Self / Willy Loman 1986-06-23
Movie Night of 100 Stars II Self 1985-03-10
Movie Death of a Salesman Willy Loman 1985-08-16
Movie Terror in the Aisles Babe (archive footage) (uncredited) 1984-10-26
Series Champs-Elysées Self 1982-01-16
Movie Tootsie Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels 1982-12-17
Movie Night of 100 Stars Self 1982-03-08
Movie The Making of 'Tootsie' Self 1982-01-01
Series Wetten, dass..? Self 1981-02-14
Movie The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's Self (archive footage) 1980-01-04
Movie Kramer vs. Kramer Ted Kramer 1979-12-07
Movie Agatha Wally Stanton 1979-02-09
Movie Straight Time Max Dembo 1978-03-18
Movie Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back Self 1977-12-07
Movie All the President's Men Carl Bernstein 1976-04-09
Movie Marathon Man Babe 1976-10-08
Movie The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People Self 1976-10-06
Movie Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men' Self 1976-01-01
Movie Lost in the Garden of the World Self 1975-06-02
Movie Lenny Lenny Bruce 1974-11-10
Series Spécial cinéma Self 1974-09-25
Movie Free to Be… You and Me Self (scenes deleted) 1974-03-11
Movie The Magnificent Rebel Self 1973-01-01
Movie Papillon Louis Dega 1973-12-13
Movie Alfredo, Alfredo Alfredo 1972-09-22
Movie Straw Dogs David Sumner 1971-11-25
Movie The Point Narrator / Father (first telecast) 1971-02-02
Movie Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? Georgie Soloway 1971-06-15
Series V.I.P. Schaukel Self 1971-05-09
Movie On Location: Dustin Hoffman Self 1971-12-31
Movie Little Big Man Jack Crabb 1970-12-14
Series Treffpunkte Self 1970-05-26
Movie Arthur Penn: The Director Himself 1970-01-18
Movie John and Mary John 1969-12-14
Movie Midnight Cowboy Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo 1969-05-25
Movie The Crowd Around the Cowboy Self 1969-01-01
Movie Madigan's Millions Jason Fister 1968-05-30
Movie The New Cinema 1968-01-01
Movie The Tiger Makes Out Hap 1967-08-18
Movie The Graduate Ben Braddock 1967-12-21
Series ABC Stage 67 J.J. Semmons 1966-09-14
Movie The Star Wagon Hanus Wicks 1966-10-20
Movie The Journey of the Fifth Horse Zoditch 1966-10-14
Series Goldene Kamera Verleihung Self 1966-01-25
Series The Nurses Larson 1965-09-27
Series The Nurses Larson 1962-09-27
Series The Mike Douglas Show Self (archive footage) 1961-12-11
Series The Defenders Buddy 1961-09-16
Series Naked City Finney 1958-09-30
Series Tony Awards Self 1956-04-01
Series The Oscars Self 1953-03-19
Series Today Self 1952-01-14