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Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman

Acting · Production · Crew · Directing

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

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (90)
  • 2026Hook: Never, Never Ending — Self (archive footage)
  • 2026TOVAH — Self
  • 2025Megadoc — Self
  • 2025Twiggy — Self
  • 2022Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon — Self
  • 2020Billy Connolly: It’s Been a Pleasure... — Self
  • 2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth — Self
  • 2019Hal — Self
  • 2017Spielberg — Self
  • 2017Steve McQueen: American Icon — Self (archive footage)
  • 2016Mike Nichols: An American Master — Self
  • 2015Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century — Self - Actor
  • 2014Led Zeppelin Played Here — Self (archive footage)
  • 2013All the President's Men Revisited — Self
  • 2012Close Up — Self (archive footage)
  • Finding Your Roots — Self
  • 2012La Classe américaine — Self
  • 2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 2008A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' — Self
  • 2008Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben — Self
  • 2008Visual Acoustics — Self - Narrator
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2007Trumbo — Self - Interviewee
  • Close Up — Self - Interviewee
  • 2006Controversy and Acclaim: The Timelessness of a Groundbreaking Film — Self
  • 2006Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" — Self
  • 2005Earth to America — Self
  • 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • The Reichen Show — Self
  • Parkinson — Self - Guest
  • 2004The Best of So Graham Norton — Self (archive footage)
  • 2003Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut — Self (archive footage)
  • 2003Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen — Self / Ben Floss
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
  • 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
  • 2002Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 2002There's Only One Paul McCartney — Self
  • V Graham Norton — Self
  • Big Brother's Little Brother — Self
  • 2001Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' — Self
  • 2001Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' — Self
  • 2001Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies — Self - Narrator
  • The Directors — Self
  • 1998Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory — Self - Host (segment "75 Years of Award Winners")
  • The Daily Show — Self
  • MADtv — Self
  • 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self
  • 1994Jonas in the Desert — Self
  • 1993Aretha Franklin: Duets — Self
  • 1992'The Graduate' at 25 — Self
  • Coucou c'est nous ! — Self
  • 1992The Graduate at 25 — Himself
  • 1990Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey — Self
  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
  • This Morning — Self
  • Sacrée soirée — Self
  • American Masters — Self
  • 1986Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ — Self / Willy Loman
  • 1985Night of 100 Stars II — Self
  • Goldene Kamera — Self
  • Champs-Elysées — Self
  • 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
  • 1982Strokes of Genius: Arshile Gorky — Self
  • 1982Strokes of Genius: de Kooning on de Kooning — Self
  • 1982The Making of 'Tootsie' — Self
  • Wetten, dass..? — Self
  • 1980The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's — Self (archive footage)
  • 1977Bette Midler: Ol' Red Hair Is Back — Self
  • 1976Dick Smith Make Up Artist — Self
  • 1976Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men' — Self
  • 1976The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People — Self
  • 1975Lost in the Garden of the World — Self
  • 1974Free to Be… You and Me — Self (scenes deleted)
  • Spécial cinéma — Self
  • 1973The Magnificent Rebel — Self
  • Film '72 — Self
  • 1971On Location: Dustin Hoffman — Self
  • V.I.P. Schaukel — Self
  • 1970Arthur Penn: The Director — Self
  • 1970The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman — Self
  • Treffpunkte — Self
  • 1969The Crowd Around the Cowboy — Self
  • 1968The New Cinema — Self
  • The Merv Griffin Show — Self
  • The Mike Douglas Show — Self (archive footage)
  • Tony Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee / Presenter
  • The Oscars — Self
  • Today — Self
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee / Presenter, Self - Winner, Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
  • Franz Kline - Remembered — Self
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