Basil Hoffman

Acting

Народився 18 січня 1938, Houston, Texas, USA

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.

Фільмографія

• 2023Discovering Ella — Bob Stephens
• 2023Lucky Louie — Wilbert Moser
• 2022Third Act — Uncle Paul
• 2019Mr. Roberts — Mr. Roberts
• 2017Mommy I Didn't Do It — Otis Pell
• 2017Останнє слово — Christopher Georrge
• 2016The Pineville Heist — Principal Parker
• 2016Аве, Цезар — Stu Schwartz (Accounting)
• 2015The French American — Monsieur Tissot
• 2014Rio, I Love You — James
• 2014Throwdown — Judge Eller
• 20133 Geezers! — Victor
• 2011Surreal Estate — Mr. Black
• 2011Артист — Auctioneer
• 2010When Life Gives You Lemons — Calvin Adams
• 2009Посилка — Don Poates
• 2003До біса кохання — C. W. (uncredited)
• For the People — Judge Olsen
• 1999Hefner: Unauthorized — Lawyer
• Західне крило — Congressman
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction — Gerald Stanley (segment "The Dresser")
• 1997Culture — Editor
• The Practice — Tucker's Atty. Art Hardiman (uncredited)
• Kindred: The Embraced — Charon the Coroner
• 1993The Elvira Show — Dr. Marvin Zislis
• 1992The Ice Runner — J.C. Kruck
• Eerie, Indiana — Bert (uncredited)
• 1991Mimi & Me — Professor Sauer
• 1991Кара небесна — Higgins
• 1990Lambada — Superintendent Leland
• 1989Communion — Dr. Friedman
• Сайнфелд — Wig Salesman
• 1988The Milagro Beanfield War — In the Governor's Office
• Beauty and the Beast — Trask
• Matlock — Gary Springer
• Агент Кувалда — Sam Steinway
• Новий Альфред Гічкок представляє — Dr. Michaels
• Сутінкова зона — Mr. Steward (segment "Button, Button")
• 1984All of Me — Court Clerk
• 1984Kidco — Sid Fein
• Night Court — Duane Sedgwick
• 1984The Ratings Game — Frank Friedlander
• 1984Welcome Home, Jellybean — Mr. Rasmussen
• Вона написала вбивство — Milton Overguard
• Ace Crawford, Private Eye — Gentleman Bandit
• 1982Games Mother Never Taught You — Dwayne Hilson
• 1982My Favorite Year — Herb Lee
• 1982Night Shift — Drollhauser
• Falcon Crest — Reverend Mustafa
• Hill Street Blues — Ed Greenglass (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Maggie — Dr. Louis Milton
• 1980Scout's Honor — Alexander
• 1980Звичайні люди — Sloan
• 1979Jennifer: A Woman’s Story — Neil Turner
• 1979Love at First Bite — Hotel Manager (uncredited)
• Out of the Blue — Herman Donaldson
• 1979The Electric Horseman — Toland
• 1978Comes a Horseman — George Bascomb
• 1978Love’s Dark Ride — Dr. Kanlan
• 1977American Raspberry — Presidential Adviser
• 1977Близькі контакти третього ступеня — Longly (uncredited)
• 1976America on Parade
• 1976Уся президентська рать — Assistant Metro Editor
• 1975At Long Last Love — Movie Theatre Manager
• Barney Miller — Allen Korbel
• 1975Cage Without a Key — Judge
• Ellery Queen — Technical Print Man, Harry
• 1975Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects — Fingerprint Expert
• 1974The Great Ice Rip-Off — Richards
• The Rockford Files — Desk Clerk (uncredited)
• Коджак — Charlie Winston
• Sanford and Son — Store Owner
• The Waltons — Prof Ranney
• Мобільний армійський хірургічний шпиталь М*А*Х*Ш — Major Pfiefer
• 1971Lady Liberty — Willett (uncredited)
• Коломбо — Jason Danziger