Dustin Hoffman
Acting
🎂 1937-08-08
Dustin Lee Hoffman 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.
Cast credits(201)
Mr. Bergstrom (voice)
1989
Self
1996
Self
2007
Guide #1
2000
Shifu (voice)
2024
Self (archive footage)
1961
Self
1956
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Nominee/Presenter
1956
Self - Nominee
1944
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
Lester Stenton
1958
Finney
1958
Shifu (voice)
2008
Self
2003
Self
1982
1992
Self - Guest
1988
Self
1981
Self
2001
Shifu (voice)
2011
Shifu (voice)
2016
Self
2012
Robert Burke
1961
Buddy
1961
Self
2005
Self
1986
Self
1953
Captain Hook
1991
Self
1987
Giovanni de' Medici
2016
Self
1984
Self
1974
Shifu (voice)
2022
Self
2002
Danny Snyder
1996
Giuseppe Baldini
2006
Raymond Babbitt
1988
The Critic (uncredited)
2004
1992
Dustin Hoffman
2006
Larson
1962
Nush 'The Fixer' Berman
2024
Bernie Focker
2004
Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo
1969
Ben Braddock
1967
Riva
2014
Abraham Simkin
2014
Sam Daniels
1995
Louis Dega
1973
J.J. Semmons
1966
Joan's conscience
1999
Bernie Focker
2010
Shifu (voice)
2008
Wendell Rohr
2003
Tucker (voice)
2005
Benedict Arnold (voice)
2002
Carl Bernstein
1976
Self
1971
Charles Frohman
2004
David Sumner
1971
Dr. Norman Goodman
1998
Roscuro (voice)
2008
Self
1999
Bernard 'Bernie' Laplante
1992
Self (archive footage)
2014
Self
2025
Ted Kramer
1979
Shifu (voice)
2010
Self
1992
Shifu (voice)
2011
Stanley Motss
1997
Mr. Edward Magorium
2007
Chester Bernstein
2012
Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
1982
Self
2019
Dottor Green
2019
Shifu / Warrior (voice)
2016
2006
Mumbles
1990
Izzy Panofsky
2010
Bob Hamman
2015
Babe
1976
Reader (voice)
1992
Bernard Jaffe
2004
Arturo Puig
1999
Harold Meyerowitz
2017
Professor Jules Hilbert
2006
Harvey Shine
2008
Meyer Lansky
2005
Shifu (Voice)
2013
Jack Crabb
1970
Master Carvelle
2015
Self (archive footage)
2017
Ben Floss
2002
Winston King
2003
Self (Introduces Film) (uncredited)
1999
Dutch Schultz
1991
Self
2005
Self (archive footage)
2015
Self
2012
Every Lawyer
1990
Mr. Hoppy
2015
Self
2017
Self (Archival Footage)
2012
Self
1982
Max Brackett
1997
Vito McMullen
1989
Willy Loman
1985
Alfredo
1972
Self (archive footage)
2002
Wally Stanton
1979
Self
1995
Chuck Clarke
1987
Self
2005
Self
2019
Walt 'Teach' Teacher
1996
Eugene
2022
Lenny Bruce
1974
Self (archive footage)
2012
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2010
Self
1952
Lenny Bruce (archive footage)
2024
Harry Horowitz
2025
2021
Chuck Clarke (archive footage)
2004
Self
2022
Self
2013
Self
1970
Self
1995
Self - Narrator
2001
Self
1968
Self (archive footage)
2017
Self (archive footage)
1980
Self
1985
Self
1993
Self
1994
Self / Ben Floss
2003
Self
1988
Milquetoast (voice)
1991
Self (archive footage)
2003
Jacob
Self - Host (segment "75 Years of Award Winners")
1998
Max Dembo
1978
Jason Fister
1968
Self (archive footage)
2014
Self
2025
2003
Georgie Soloway
1971
Carl Bernstein (archive footage)
2016
Bill
2022
Self - Interviewee
2006
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels (archive footage)
2022
Self (archive footage)
2011
Self
1976
John
1969
2004
Peter (archive footage)
1993
Benjamin Braddock (archive footage)
2023
Self
2016
Narrator (voice)
1989
Self - Interviewee
2007
Self
1976
Self (scenes deleted)
1974
Self
1973
Self
2002
Narrator (voice)
2010
Self
1977
Narrator / Father (first telecast)
1971
Hap
1967
Self
2006
Self
1975
Hanus Wicks
1966
Self
1990
Self
1982
Zoditch
1966
Self / Willy Loman
1986
Self
1982
Self
2006
Self - Narrator
2008
Self
2008
Self
2001
Self
2020
Self - Actor
2015
1999
Self
Self
1970
Self
1969
Self
2008
Self
1971
Self
2001
Narrator
2009
Self
1992
Self
1970
Self
1982
voice
2001
Host
2003
2009
