Dustin Hoffman

Acting · 3.9 popularity

Age

Movies

151

Born: August 8, 1937
From: Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

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.

Works

151 films

Tuner

20267.1

Kung Fu Panda

20087.3

Kung Fu Panda 4

20247.0

Kung Fu Panda 2

20117.1

Kung Fu Panda 3

20166.9

The Holiday

20067.1

The Graduate

19677.6

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

20067.4

Hook

19916.8

Rain Man

19887.8

Sleepers

19967.6

Meet the Fockers

20046.3

Little Fockers

20105.7

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

20046.8

Outbreak

19956.6

Runaway Jury

20036.9

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

19996.4

Chef

20147.1

Dick Tracy

19906.2

Megalopolis

20245.2

Midnight Cowboy

19697.5

Papillon

19737.8

Sphere

19986.1

Kramer vs. Kramer

19797.6

All the President's Men

19767.7

The Cobbler

20145.9

Stranger Than Fiction

20067.3

The Tale of Despereaux

20086.2

Finding Neverland

20047.3

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five

20086.8

Racing Stripes

20055.9

Tootsie

19827.2

I ♥ Huckabees

20046.3

Straw Dogs

19717.2

Wag the Dog

19976.9

Kung Fu Panda Holiday

20107.0

Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

20076.3

Last Chance Harvey

20086.3

Marathon Man

19767.2

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters

20116.5

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll

20166.9

Straight Time

19787.1

The Program

20156.4

Hero

19926.3

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

20176.5

Mad City

19976.2

Little Big Man

19707.4

Family Business

19895.7

Billy Bathgate

19915.8

Confidence

20036.3

Into the Labyrinth

20196.4

Barney's Version

20107.0

Spielberg

20177.5

Death of a Salesman

19856.9

Moonlight Mile

20026.3

The Lost City

20056.2

Sam & Kate

20226.3

The Best of So Graham Norton

2004

TOVAH

2026

Mike Nichols: An American Master

20166.3

Boychoir

20156.8

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

Roald Dahl's Esio Trot

20156.7

Heart of the Festival

20026.5

John and Mary

19695.9

Diamond

20265.7

Hollywood: No Sex, Please!

20185.5

There's Only One Paul McCartney

20028.0

The Devil's Arithmetic

19996.8

Lost in the Garden of the World

1975

Agatha

19796.1

Megadoc

20256.5

The Earth Day Special

19906.1

Lenny

19747.3

Ishtar

19874.6

Night of 100 Stars II

19856.8

Led Zeppelin Played Here

20148.0

La Classe américaine

19937.6

Earth and the American Dream

19926.7

Night of 100 Stars

19825.8

Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection

20138.0

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

20196.5

As They Made Us

20225.3

Close Up

20129.5

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

All the President's Men Revisited

20137.0

Twiggy

20257.7

Visual Acoustics

20087.4

Trumbo

20076.7

Hal

20196.6

Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years

19997.4

The Magnificent Rebel

19735.6

Earth to America

20057.7

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

20167.4

On Location: Dustin Hoffman

19718.0

Aretha Franklin: Duets

19938.3

The Shakespeare Sessions

20038.5

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

19907.2

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

20028.0

American Buffalo

19965.4

Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...

20207.4

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

20106.7

Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon

2022

Steve McQueen: American Icon

20177.0

Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies

2003

The Point

19716.8

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

20018.5

Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

20157.5

Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback

20236.5

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

19804.0

Madigan's Millions

19684.0

Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen

20038.8

The Star Wagon

19667.0

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

1986

The Crowd Around the Cowboy

1969

The New Cinema

1968

La Classe américaine

20126.5

Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut

20037.0

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

19714.8

Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story

20106.0

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

19896.9

PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation

20227.5

Jonas in the Desert

19946.4

A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'

20086.0

The Tiger Makes Out

19675.0

Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"

20065.2

The Making of 'Tootsie'

19826.0

Franz Kline - Remembered

2026

Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back

19778.5

Tower Stories

2026

The Journey of the Fifth Horse

19667.0

Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film

2006

Alfredo, Alfredo

19726.2

Tuesday

20016.8

'The Graduate' at 25

19926.0

Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'

20017.3

Free to Be… You and Me

19746.8

Strokes of Genius: Arshile Gorky

1982

Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben

2008

The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People

19767.0

The Revisionist

20261.0

Arthur Penn: The Director

19709.0

Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'

20015.0

Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory

19986.8

Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'

19763.3

After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later

2004

The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman

1970

The Graduate at 25

1992

Against the Tide

20097.0

Dustin!

2009

Strokes of Genius: de Kooning on de Kooning

1982