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.
192 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 192
The Simpsons
1989
The Daily Show
1996
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Champs-Elysées
1982
Tony Awards
1956
Naked City
1958
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Sacrée soirée
1987
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
American Masters
1986
The Defenders
1961
Kung Fu Panda
2008
Finding Your Roots
2012
The Oscars
1953
Spécial cinéma
1974
The Reichen Show
2005
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
2022
Big Brother's Little Brother
2001
V Graham Norton
2002
Tuner
2026
Goldene Kamera
1984
Kung Fu Panda 2
2011
Film '72
1971
Kung Fu Panda 3
2016
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016
HBO First Look
1992
Sleepers
1996
ABC Stage 67
1966
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
Hook
1991
The Holiday
2006
Rachael Ray
2006
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
Today
1952
The Directors
1999
Outbreak
1995
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
The Nurses
1962
Rain Man
1988
Liberty's Kids
2002
Meet the Fockers
2004
The Graduate
1967
Luck
2012
Little Fockers
2010
Megalopolis
2024
Chef
2014
Sphere
1998
Midnight Cowboy
1969
Papillon
1973
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five
2008
Coucou c'est nous !
1992
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999
Racing Stripes
2005
Runaway Jury
2003
All the President's Men
1976
Tootsie
1982
The Cobbler
2014
Stranger Than Fiction
2006
Wag the Dog
1997
Finding Neverland
2004
Hero
1992
Straw Dogs
1971
Dick Tracy
1990
Treffpunkte
1970
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979
Stand-Up: The Laughing Therapy
2024
Spielberg
2017
Kung Fu Panda Holiday
2010
The Tale of Despereaux
2008
Kung Fu Panda: The Awesome Secrets Collection
2013
Marathon Man
1976
MADtv
1995
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll
2016
This Morning
1988
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
2007
The Earth Day Special
1990
Mad City
1997
Billy Bathgate
1991
Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters
2011
Close Up
2012
Night of 100 Stars
1982
Earth to America
2005
Confidence
2003
I ♥ Huckabees
2004
Barney's Version
2010
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Family Business
1989
Last Chance Harvey
2008
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Lenny
1974
The Program
2015
Moonlight Mile
2002
Ishtar
1987
Megadoc
2025
Little Big Man
1970
Straight Time
1978
Boychoir
2015
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
Twiggy
2025
Into the Labyrinth
2019
The Devil's Arithmetic
1999
The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
1980
TOVAH
2026
Death of a Salesman
1985
The Lost City
2005
Sam & Kate
2022
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
American Buffalo
1996
La Classe américaine
1993
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
PRIDE: To Be Seen - A Soul of a Nation Presentation
2022
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Trumbo
2007
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot
2015
Diamond
2026
Agatha
1979
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
As They Made Us
2022
La Classe américaine
2012
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
1989
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
1971
Hal
2019
John and Mary
1969
Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon
2022
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory
1998
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001
Steve McQueen: American Icon
2017
Mike Nichols: An American Master
2016
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
Billy Connolly: Erect for 30 Years
1999
Alfredo, Alfredo
1972
The Point
1971
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
2010
All the President's Men Revisited
2013
Close Up
2006
Heart of the Festival
2002
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
2006
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
The New Cinema
1968
Free to Be… You and Me
1974
Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure...
2020
The Tiger Makes Out
1967
Aretha Franklin: Duets
1993
Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film
2006
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975
The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People
1976
Tower Stories
—
The Shakespeare Sessions
2003
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
2008
Madigan's Millions
1968
The Journey of the Fifth Horse
1966
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
2003
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
1976
Led Zeppelin Played Here
2014
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015
Visual Acoustics
2008
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
2001
The Revisionist
2026
Jonas in the Desert
1994
On Location: Dustin Hoffman
1971
The Magnificent Rebel
1973
There's Only One Paul McCartney
2002
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008
Franz Kline - Remembered
—
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
2003
Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back
1977
Strokes of Genius: de Kooning on de Kooning
1982
The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman
1970
Dustin!
2009
After Midnight: Reflecting on a Classic 35 Years Later
2004
The Graduate at 25
1992
Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer'
2001
The Making of 'Tootsie'
1982
Against the Tide
2009
The Star Wagon
1966
Strokes of Genius: Arshile Gorky
1982
'The Graduate' at 25
1992
Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments from the Movies
2003
Arthur Penn: The Director
1970
Tuesday
2001
The Crowd Around the Cowboy
1969
