Dustin Hoffman
Acting
🎂 1937-08-08
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.
Cast credits(202)
Self
1996
Self
2007
Self
2002
Self
1982
Mr. Bergstrom (voice)
1989
Self
2001
Self - Guest
1988
Guide #1
2000
Self
1981
Self
1992
1992
Self (archive footage)
1961
1992
Self
2005
Self
2003
Self
1974
Self
1986
Self
1987
Self - Nominee
1944
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Winner
1944
Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
Self - Winner/Presenter
1944
Robert Burke
1961
Buddy
1961
Giovanni de' Medici
2016
Benedict Arnold (voice)
2002
Self
1956
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Nominee/Presenter
1956
Self
2012
Shifu (voice)
2024
Self
1953
Larson
1962
Shifu (voice)
2022
Self
1999
Lester Stenton
1958
Finney
1958
Self
1952
Shifu (voice)
2008
Shifu (voice)
2016
Shifu (voice)
2011
Self
1984
Captain Hook
1991
Raymond Babbitt
1988
Giuseppe Baldini
2006
Nush 'The Fixer' Berman
2024
Riva
2014
Self - Interviewee
2006
The Critic (uncredited)
2004
Dustin Hoffman
2006
J.J. Semmons
1966
Self
1995
Ben Braddock
1967
2006
Bernie Focker
2004
Sam Daniels
1995
Wendell Rohr
2003
Danny Snyder
1996
Abraham Simkin
2014
Self
1971
Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo
1969
Bernie Focker
2010
Louis Dega
1973
Joan's conscience
1999
Carl Bernstein
1976
Ted Kramer
1979
Chester Bernstein
2012
David Sumner
1971
Dr. Norman Goodman
1998
Shifu (voice)
2011
Babe
1976
Mumbles
1990
Self
2017
Roscuro (voice)
2008
Tucker (voice)
2005
Charles Frohman
2004
Lenny Bruce (archive footage)
2024
Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
1982
Professor Jules Hilbert
2006
Jack Crabb
1970
Stanley Motss
1997
Bernard 'Bernie' Laplante
1992
Shifu (voice)
2008
Self
1970
Dutch Schultz
1991
Shifu / Warrior (voice)
2016
Lenny Bruce
1974
Willy Loman
1985
Bernard Jaffe
2004
Self (Introduces Film) (uncredited)
1999
Shifu (voice)
2010
Bill
2022
Mr. Edward Magorium
2007
Self
1988
Narrator / Father (first telecast)
1971
Vito McMullen
1989
Eugene
2022
Izzy Panofsky
2010
Harvey Shine
2008
Chuck Clarke
1987
Harold Meyerowitz
2017
Master Carvelle
2015
Bob Hamman
2015
Every Lawyer
1990
Winston King
2003
Chuck Clarke (archive footage)
2004
Wally Stanton
1979
Self (archive footage)
2014
2021
Meyer Lansky
2005
Dottor Green
2019
Max Brackett
1997
Self (archive footage)
2002
Self
2025
Self
1985
Self
2019
Self / Willy Loman
1986
Self (archive footage)
2003
Max Dembo
1978
Self
2005
Ben Floss
2002
Self
1982
Shifu (Voice)
2013
Self
2005
Jason Fister
1968
Self
2012
Narrator (voice)
2010
Self (archive footage)
2011
Mr. Hoppy
2015
Carl Bernstein (archive footage)
2016
Self
1995
Georgie Soloway
1971
Self - Interviewee
2007
Self (archive footage)
2012
Hap
1967
Himself/Narrator
2008
Self
2013
Peter (archive footage)
1993
Narrator (voice)
1989
Alfredo
1972
Self (Archival Footage)
2012
Self
2019
Self
2016
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2010
Self
2020
Self (archive footage)
2014
Reader (voice)
1992
Self (scenes deleted)
1974
Walt 'Teach' Teacher
1996
Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels (archive footage)
2022
Self - Host (segment "75 Years of Award Winners")
1998
John
1969
Self (archive footage)
2017
Self (archive footage)
2017
Self
1975
Benjamin Braddock (archive footage)
2023
Self (archive footage)
1980
Self (uncredited archive footage: 1975 BBC interview)
2002
Zoditch
1966
Self
1990
Hanus Wicks
1966
Self
1994
Self
1977
Milquetoast (voice)
1991
Self - Narrator
2001
Self
2006
Self
1993
Self (archive footage)
2015
Self
2022
Jacob
Arturo Puig
1999
Self
1968
Self
2008
Self
1973
2009
Self
2001
Self - Actor
2015
2004
Narrator
2009
Self / Ben Floss
2003
Self
2002
Self
1976
Self
1969
Self
1992
Host
2003
Self
2001
1999
Self
2008
Self
1976
2003
Self
1971
Self
1970
voice
2001
Self
2006
Himself
1982
Self
1982
Himself
1970
Self
1982
Himself
