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Basil Hoffman‌

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Birthday

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Basil Hoffman

Houston, Texas, USA

Basil Hoffman

Houston, Texas, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1938-01-18

Popularity

star1.6

Biography

Basil Harry Hoffman (January 18, 1938 — September 17, 2021) was an American actor with a film and television career spanning five decades, mostly in supporting roles. He starred in films with many award-winning directors, including Alan Pakula and Robert Redford. He has also authored two books about acting, including Acting and How to Be Good at It. Hoffman was born in Houston, Texas in January 1938, the son of Beulah (née Novoselsky) and David Hoffman, an antique dealer. He graduated from Tulane University; and he spent two years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, receiving a scholarship for the second, graduating year. His thirteen years of work in New York included many plays, some roles in episodic television, a recurring character on One Life to Live on ABC, hundreds of commercials and a film role in Lady Liberty with Sophia Loren, directed by Mario Monicelli. He made his first trip to Los Angeles in 1974. In that season, he filmed a theatrical feature, At Long Last Love, for Peter Bogdanovich. In the years that followed he appeared in two television movies, television episodes of Kung Fu, The Rockford Files, Sanford and Son (2 roles), Police Woman, Columbo, Kojak, M*A*S*H (2 roles), Barney Miller and several TV commercials. He had recurring roles as the fingerprint technician on Ellery Queen and as Principal Dingleman on Square Pegs. Although most of his work was in film and television, he made a few stage appearances, most notably in Sand Mountain, by Romulus Linney, for which he won a Drama-Logue Award, the first staged reading of Martin E. Brooks’ Joe and Flo at the Actors Studio, and the world premiere of William Blinn's Walking Peoria. He was best known for his work with distinguished film directors, including Peter Bogdanovich, Mario Monicelli, Richard Benjamin, Carl Reiner (twice), Peter Medak (six times) and Alan J. Pakula (twice); Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen, Paolo Sorrentino, Michel Hazanavicius, Steven Spielberg, Delbert Mann, Blake Edwards, Stanley Donen, Sydney Pollack, Ron Howard and Robert Redford (twice as director); and others. His films include: All the President's Men, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, My Favorite Year, The Box, The Electric Horseman, Night Shift, Lucky Lady, Switch, The Milagro Beanfield War, Rio, I Love You, The Pineville Heist, and the Academy Award-winning Best Pictures Ordinary People and The Artist, among many others. A long-time private acting teacher and coach, he was also a frequent guest lecturer and teacher at prestigious professional and academic institutions, including the American Film Institute, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Emerson College, the University of Southern California, Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, and the Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2008, he returned to Beirut as a U.S. State Department Cultural Envoy to Lebanon to teach acting and directing at the University of Balamand's Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts, Lebanese University, Notre Dame University and St. Joseph University's Institut D'Etude Sceniques Audiovisuelles et Cinematographiques. ... Source: Article "Basil Hoffman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movie Credits

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind‌
star7.4
calendar 1977

Down with Love

Down with Love‌
star6.1
calendar 2003

My Favorite Year

My Favorite Year‌
star6.8
calendar 1982

Love’s Dark Ride

Love’s Dark Ride‌
star6.5
calendar 1978

The Elvira Show

The Elvira Show‌
star0.0
calendar 1993

Comes a Horseman

Comes a Horseman‌
star6.0
calendar 1978

Night Shift

Night Shift‌
star6.0
calendar 1982

Ordinary People

Ordinary People‌
star7.5
calendar 1980

Lucky Louie

Lucky Louie‌
star0.0
calendar 2023

Jennifer: A Woman’s Story

Jennifer: A Woman’s Story‌
star0.0
calendar 1979

The Artist

The Artist‌
star7.5
calendar 2011

Lambada

Lambada‌
star5.5
calendar 1990

3 Geezers!

3 Geezers!‌
star4.0
calendar 2013

At Long Last Love

At Long Last Love‌
star5.4
calendar 1975

Hefner: Unauthorized

Hefner: Unauthorized‌
star4.0
calendar 1999

When Life Gives You Lemons

When Life Gives You Lemons‌
star0.0
calendar 2010

Culture

Culture‌
star6.0
calendar 1997

Lady Liberty

Lady Liberty‌
star5.4
calendar 1971

The Milagro Beanfield War

The Milagro Beanfield War‌
star6.5
calendar 1988

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects‌
star0.0
calendar 1975

Third Act

Third Act‌
star0.0
calendar 2022

Throwdown

Throwdown‌
star3.1
calendar 2014

Cage Without a Key

Cage Without a Key‌
star0.0
calendar 1975

The French American

The French American‌
star0.0
calendar 2015

Games Mother Never Taught You

Games Mother Never Taught You‌
star0.0
calendar 1982

Surreal Estate

Surreal Estate‌
star0.0
calendar 2011

Rio, I Love You

Rio, I Love You‌
star4.9
calendar 2014

Scout's Honor

Scout's Honor‌
star5.5
calendar 1980

All the President's Men

All the President's Men‌
star7.7
calendar 1976

Welcome Home, Jellybean

Welcome Home, Jellybean‌
star0.0
calendar 1984

Mimi & Me

Mimi & Me‌
star0.0
calendar 1991

The Ratings Game

The Ratings Game‌
star5.7
calendar 1984

The Pineville Heist

The Pineville Heist‌
star7.0
calendar 2016

Communion

Communion‌
star5.4
calendar 1989

The Ice Runner

The Ice Runner‌
star5.0
calendar 1992

America on Parade

America on Parade‌
star0.0
calendar 1976

Discovering Ella

Discovering Ella‌
star0.0
calendar 2023

Hail, Caesar!

Hail, Caesar!‌
star5.9
calendar 2016

The Last Word

The Last Word‌
star6.6
calendar 2017

Love at First Bite

Love at First Bite‌
star6.0
calendar 1979

The Electric Horseman

The Electric Horseman‌
star6.1
calendar 1979

The Great Ice Rip-Off

The Great Ice Rip-Off‌
star7.0
calendar 1974

The Box

The Box‌
star5.6
calendar 2009

Switch

Switch‌
star5.9
calendar 1991

All of Me

All of Me‌
star6.5
calendar 1984

Mr. Roberts

Mr. Roberts‌
star0.0
calendar 2019

Tv Credits

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone‌
star7.7
calendar 1985

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H‌
star7.9
calendar 1972

The West Wing

The West Wing‌
star8.3
calendar 1999

Sledge Hammer!

Sledge Hammer!‌
star7.9
calendar 1986

The Practice

The Practice‌
star7.7
calendar 1997

Night Court

Night Court‌
star7.3
calendar 1984

Kindred: The Embraced

Kindred: The Embraced‌
star7.1
calendar 1996

Seinfeld

Seinfeld‌
star8.3
calendar 1989

Kojak

Kojak‌
star6.9
calendar 1973

Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues‌
star7.6
calendar 1981

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents‌
star7.3
calendar 1985

Barney Miller

Barney Miller‌
star7.3
calendar 1975

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction‌
star7.2
calendar 1997

Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen‌
star7.4
calendar 1975

Maggie

Maggie‌
star0.0
calendar 1981

Columbo

Columbo‌
star8.1
calendar 1971

Sanford and Son

Sanford and Son‌
star7.5
calendar 1972

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue‌
star6.0
calendar 1979

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote‌
star7.6
calendar 1984

Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest‌
star5.6
calendar 1981