Basil Hoffman

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.
    Known for
    Acting
    Place of birth
    Houston, Texas, USA
    Birthday
    1/18/1938
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7.4
Down with Love
Down with Love
6.1
My Favorite Year
My Favorite Year
6.8
Comes a Horseman
Comes a Horseman
6
Night Shift
Night Shift
6
Ordinary People
Ordinary People
7.4
The Artist
The Artist
7.5
3 Geezers!
3 Geezers!
4
Hefner: Unauthorized
Hefner: Unauthorized
4
When Life Gives You Lemons
0
Culture
Culture
6
Throwdown
Throwdown
3.1
The French American
0
Rio, I Love You
Rio, I Love You
4.9
Surreal Estate
0
Mimi & Me
0
The Ratings Game
The Ratings Game
5.2
The Pineville Heist
The Pineville Heist
7
Communion
Communion
5.3
The Ice Runner
The Ice Runner
5
Hail, Caesar!
Hail, Caesar!
5.9
The Last Word
The Last Word
6.6
The Electric Horseman
The Electric Horseman
6.1
Love at First Bite
Love at First Bite
5.9
The Great Ice Rip-Off
The Great Ice Rip-Off
7
The Box
The Box
5.6
Switch
Switch
6
All of Me
All of Me
6.5
Mr. Roberts
Mr. Roberts
0
Love’s Dark Ride
Love’s Dark Ride
6.5
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
0
At Long Last Love
At Long Last Love
5.4
Lady Liberty
Lady Liberty
5.4
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
0
Cage Without a Key
Cage Without a Key
0
Games Mother Never Taught You
Games Mother Never Taught You
0
Scout's Honor
Scout's Honor
5.5
Welcome Home, Jellybean
Welcome Home, Jellybean
0
All the President's Men
All the President's Men
7.7
The Elvira Show
The Elvira Show
0
Lucky Louie
Lucky Louie
0
Lambada
Lambada
5.4
The Milagro Beanfield War
The Milagro Beanfield War
6.4
Third Act
Third Act
0
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