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person_profile-Basil Hoffman

Basil Hoffman Died at age: 83

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Basil Hoffman

Date of Birth:

Jan 18, 1938

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Sep 17, 2021

Biography of

Basil Hoffman

    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.

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Filmography of

Basil Hoffman

Found 39 Movies in total

Lucky Louie

Wilbert Moser ( Actor )

... 2023

Third Act

Uncle Paul ( Actor )

... 2022

The Last Word

Christopher Georrge ( Actor )

... 2017

Mommy I Didn't Do It

Otis Pell ( Actor )

... 2017

The Pineville Heist

Principal Parker ( Actor )

... 2016

Hail, Caesar!

Stu Schwartz (Accounting) ( Actor )

... 2016

Throwdown

Judge Eller ( Actor )

... 2014

Rio, I Love You

James (segment "La Fortuna") ( Actor )

... 2014

3 Geezers!

Victor ( Actor )

... 2013

The Artist

Auctioneer ( Actor )

... 2011

The Box

Don Poates ( Actor )

... 2009

Down with Love

C. W. (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2003

Hefner: Unauthorized

Lawyer ( Actor )

... 1999

The Ice Runner

J.C. Kruck ( Actor )

... 1992

Switch

Higgins ( Actor )

... 1991

Lambada

Superintendent Leland ( Actor )

... 1990

Communion

Dr. Friedman ( Actor )

... 1989

The Milagro Beanfield War

In the Governor's Office ( Actor )

... 1988

The Ratings Game

Frank Friedlander ( Actor )

... 1984

All of Me

Court Clerk ( Actor )

... 1984

... 1984

Games Mother Never Taught You

Dwayne Hilson ( Actor )

... 1982

My Favorite Year

Herb Lee ( Actor )

... 1982

Night Shift

Drollhauser ( Actor )

... 1982

Scout's Honor

Alexander ( Actor )

... 1980

Ordinary People

Sloan ( Actor )

... 1980

The Electric Horseman

Toland ( Actor )

... 1979

Love at First Bite

Hotel Manager (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1979

Jennifer: A Woman’s Story

Neil Turner ( Actor )

... 1979

Comes a Horseman

George Bascomb ( Actor )

... 1978

Love’s Dark Ride

Dr. Kanlan ( Actor )

... 1978

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Longly (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1977

All the President's Men

Assistant Metro Editor ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1976

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

Fingerprint Expert ( Actor )

... 1975

Cage Without a Key

Judge ( Actor )

... 1975

At Long Last Love

Movie Theatre Manager ( Actor )

... 1975

The Great Ice Rip-Off

Richards ( Actor )

... 1974

Lady Liberty

Willett (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1971