Dustin Hoffman
Actor
Born August 8, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Filmography
Tower Stories
Jacob
Franz Kline - Remembered
Self
Tuner
Harry Horowitz
Diamond
TOVAH
Self
Megadoc
Self
Twiggy
Self
Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy
Lenny Bruce (archive footage)
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
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
Shifu (voice)
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
Medici: Masters of Florence
Giovanni de' Medici
Kung Fu Panda 3
Shifu (voice)
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
Shifu / Warrior (voice)
Brooklyn
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
Quartet
La Classe américaine
Self
Close Up
Self (archive footage)
Finding Your Roots
Self
Luck
Chester Bernstein
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
Shifu (voice)
Kung Fu Panda 2
Master 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)
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
Shifu (voice)
Visual Acoustics
Self - Narrator
Kung Fu Panda
Master Shifu (voice)
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Self
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Mr. Edward Magorium
Trumbo
Self - Interviewee
The Graham Norton Show
Self
The Holiday
Dustin Hoffman (uncredited)
Stranger Than Fiction
Professor Jules Hilbert
Rachael Ray
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 Reichen Show
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
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
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
Moonlight Mile
Ben Floss
Liberty's Kids
Benedict Arnold (voice)
There's Only One Paul McCartney
Self
V Graham Norton
Self
Heart of the Festival
Self (archive footage)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Self - Narrator
Tuesday
voice
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
Self
Big Brother's Little Brother
Self
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
Self
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Guide #1
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Joan's conscience
The Devil's Arithmetic
Self (Introduces Film) (uncredited)
A Walk on the Moon
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
The Directors
Self
Tarzan and the Lost City
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 Daily Show
Self
MADtv
Self
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
Outbreak
Sam Daniels
100 Years at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
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)
Coucou c'est nous !
Self
HBO First Look
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
'The Graduate' at 25
Self
The Graduate at 25
Himself
Billy Bathgate
Dutch Schultz
Hook
Captain Hook
Dick Tracy
Mumbles
The Earth Day Special
Every Lawyer
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Self
The Simpsons
Mr. Bergstrom (voice)
Family Business
Vito McMullen
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Narrator (voice)
Rain Man
Raymond Babbitt
This Morning
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
Sacrée soirée
Self
Ishtar
Chuck Clarke
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self / Willy Loman
American Masters
Self
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
Champs-Elysées
Self
The Making of 'Tootsie'
Self
Wetten, dass..?
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
Spécial cinéma
Self
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
NET Playhouse
Zoditch
ABC Stage 67
J.J. Semmons
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Nurses
Larson
The Mike Douglas Show
Self (archive footage)
The Defenders
Robert Burke
Naked City
Lester Stenton
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
The Oscars
Self
Today
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee