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Basil Hoffman
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1938-01-18,Houston, Texas, USA
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

7.36

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977-12-14

6.128

Down with Love
2003-05-08

My Favorite Year

6.649

My Favorite Year
1982-10-01

Love’s Dark Ride

6.667

Love’s Dark Ride
1978-04-02

The Elvira Show

6.6

The Elvira Show
1993-01-01

Comes a Horseman

6.1

Comes a Horseman
1978-10-25

6.069

Night Shift
1982-07-30

Ordinary People

7.442

Ordinary People
1980-09-19

0

Lucky Louie
2023-05-02

Jennifer: A Woman’s Story

7

Jennifer: A Woman’s Story
1979-03-05

7.435

The Artist
2011-10-12

5.5

Lambada
1990-03-16

3.9

3 Geezers!
2013-05-22

At Long Last Love

5.081

At Long Last Love
1975-03-01

Hefner: Unauthorized

5

Hefner: Unauthorized
1999-12-08

When Life Gives You Lemons

0

When Life Gives You Lemons
2010-01-01

6.7

Culture
1997-10-01

5.558

Lady Liberty
1971-12-22

The Milagro Beanfield War

6.555

The Milagro Beanfield War
1988-03-18

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

8

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975-03-23

0

Third Act
2022-01-01

3.2

Throwdown
2014-12-31

Cage Without a Key

6

Cage Without a Key
1975-03-14

The French American

0

The French American
2015-10-15

Games Mother Never Taught You

8

Games Mother Never Taught You
1982-11-27

0

Surreal Estate
2011-10-20

Rio, I Love You

4.796

Rio, I Love You
2014-09-12

7.5

Scout's Honor
1980-09-30

All the President's Men

7.7

All the President's Men
1976-04-09

Welcome Home, Jellybean

7

Welcome Home, Jellybean
1984-03-24

9

Mimi & Me
1991-09-07

The Ratings Game

5.7

The Ratings Game
1984-12-15

The Pineville Heist

7

The Pineville Heist
2016-04-06

5.35

Communion
1989-11-10

5.333

The Ice Runner
1992-01-01

America on Parade

9

America on Parade
1976-04-03

Discovering Ella

0

Discovering Ella
2023-07-08

5.942

Hail, Caesar!
2016-02-05

6.6

The Last Word
2017-03-03

Love at First Bite

5.991

Love at First Bite
1979-04-26

The Electric Horseman

6.128

The Electric Horseman
1979-12-21

The Great Ice Rip-Off

7.5

The Great Ice Rip-Off
1974-11-06

5.639

The Box
2009-10-29

5.876

Switch
1991-05-10

6.5

All of Me
1984-09-21

0

Mr. Roberts
2019-05-17

Mommy I Didn't Do It

5.7

Mommy I Didn't Do It
2017-01-01

American Raspberry

5.6

American Raspberry
1977-09-12

6.6

Kidco
1984-04-13

The Twilight Zone

7.695

The Twilight Zone
1985-09-27

7.938

M*A*S*H
1972-09-17

8.259

The West Wing
1999-09-22

8

Sledge Hammer!
1986-09-23

7.611

The Practice
1997-03-04

7.321

Night Court
1984-01-04

Kindred: The Embraced

7.069

Kindred: The Embraced
1996-04-02

8.249

Seinfeld
1989-07-05

7.289

Kojak
1973-10-24

Hill Street Blues

7.621

Hill Street Blues
1981-01-15

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

7.242

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985-09-29

7.336

Barney Miller
1975-01-23

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

7.258

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997-05-25

7.5

Ellery Queen
1975-09-11

10

Maggie
1981-10-24

8.057

Columbo
1971-09-15

Sanford and Son

7.5

Sanford and Son
1972-01-14

Out of the Blue

7.333

Out of the Blue
1979-09-09

Murder, She Wrote

7.522

Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30

5.539

Falcon Crest
1981-12-04

7.129

The Waltons
1972-09-14

Hill Street Blues

7.621

Hill Street Blues
1981-01-15

The Rockford Files

7.614

The Rockford Files
1974-09-13

7.049

Matlock
1986-03-03

7.6

Eerie, Indiana
1991-09-15

10

For the People
2002-07-21

Beauty and the Beast

7.386

Beauty and the Beast
1987-09-25

Ace Crawford, Private Eye

6.7

Ace Crawford, Private Eye
1983-03-15