Dustin Hoffman
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- ActionOutbreak
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- CrimePapillon
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- AnimationKung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
- ComedyThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
- ComedyStranger Than Fiction
- ComedyQuartet
- DramaFinding Neverland
- ComedyQuartet
- ComedyBeing John Malkovich
- DocumentaryThe Kid Stays in the Picture
- DocumentaryThe Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
- AdventureLemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- DocumentarySpielberg
- AdventureLemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- ActionSphere
- ComedyHero
- CrimeMarathon Man
- DramaAll the President's Men
- ComedyMr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
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- ComedyWag the Dog
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- CrimeStraight Time
- DramaLenny
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- DramaThe Devil's Arithmetic
- DramaAmerican Buffalo
- DocumentaryJews and Baseball: An American Love Story
- DocumentaryCommon Threads: Stories from the Quilt
- DocumentaryVisual Acoustics
- DocumentaryAgainst the Tide
- AnimationKung Fu Panda
- AdventureThe Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
- ComedyThe Graduate
- DramaMidnight Cowboy
- DramaBrooklyn
- CrimeBilly Bathgate
- CrimeMad City
- ComedyBarney's Version
- CrimeFamily Business
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- AnimationKung Fu Panda 3
- AnimationKung Fu Panda 2
- ComedyMeet the Fockers
- CrimeRunaway Jury
- ComedyI ♥ Huckabees
- DramaAgatha
- ComedyMadigan's Millions
- CrimePerfume: The Story of a Murderer
- ComedyThe Cobbler
- ComedyLittle Fockers
- DramaAs They Made Us
- ComedyRumor Has It...
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- DocumentaryHal
- DocumentaryMike Nichols: An American Master
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- DramaThe Lost City
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- AnimationThe Point
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- DocumentaryPaul Williams Still Alive
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- DocumentaryAll Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
- ComedyThe Holiday
- DocumentaryCameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
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- CrimeStraw Dogs
- MysteryInto the Labyrinth
- AdventureLittle Big Man
- DramaBoychoir
- DramaLuck
- ComedyAlfredo, Alfredo
- DramaJohn and Mary
- DramaWho Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
- DocumentaryGoldwyn: The Man and His Movies
- DocumentaryA Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
- DocumentaryThe Shakespeare Sessions
- DocumentaryThe Making of 'Tootsie'
- DramaThe Journey of the Fifth Horse
- DocumentaryAfter Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
- Documentary'The Graduate' at 25
- DocumentaryNow Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies
- DocumentaryOn Location: Dustin Hoffman
- ActionKung Fu Panda 4
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Dustin Hoffman
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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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- Los Angeles, California, USA
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