Dustin Hoffman filmography

Hoffman on the set of Lenny (1974)

American actor Dustin Hoffman began his career by appearing in an episode of Naked City in 1961. His first theatrical performance was 1961's A Cook for Mr. General as Ridzinski. Following several guest appearances on television, he starred in the 1966 play Eh?; his performance garnered him both a Theatre World Award and Drama Desk Award.^[1] Hoffman made his film debut in 1967 when he appeared in the comedy The Tiger Makes Out. In the same year, his breakthrough role as Benjamin "Ben" Braddock, the title character in Mike Nichols' comedy-drama The Graduate, led to Hoffman achieving star status and his first Academy Award nomination.^[2] He then acted in the play Jimmy Shine as the eponymous character and the comedy film Madigan's Millions (both 1968). In 1969, he starred alongside Jon Voight in the Academy Award for Best Picture winner Midnight Cowboy, which Hoffman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor a second time.^[2]

The 1970s saw Hoffman star in several critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including the Western Little Big Man (1970), psychological thriller Straw Dogs (1971), prison film Papillon (1973) alongside Steve McQueen, Lenny (1974) about the controversial comedian Lenny Bruce,^[3] and the political thriller All the President's Men (1976) as journalist Carl Bernstein investigating the Watergate scandal alongside Bob Woodward (played by Robert Redford).^[4] After starring in the suspense-thriller Marathon Man (1976) and the crime drama Straight Time (1978), Hoffman starred in the 1979 drama Kramer vs. Kramer, which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the first time for his performance as Ted Kramer.^[2]

After a three-year acting hiatus, he starred in the comedy Tootsie in 1982 as 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 – Hoffman reprised the role a year later in a television film.^[2] 1987 saw the release of originally ill-received comedy Ishtar, in which he starred with Warren Beatty; its critical support has since grown.^[5] He won his second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the autistic Ray Babbitt in the 1988 film Rain Man, co-starring Tom Cruise.^[2] In 1989, he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for playing Shylock in an stage performance of The Merchant of Venice.^[1] In the 1990s, he made appearances in such film as Warren Beatty's action comedy adaptation Dick Tracy (1990), Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991) as Captain Hook, guest starred in the 1991 "Lisa's Substitute" episode of the The Simpsons, medical disaster Outbreak (1995), legal crime drama Sleepers (1996), thriller Mad City (1997), and the satirical black comedy Wag the Dog (1997) alongside Robert De Niro.

In the 2000s, he played theatrical producer Charles Frohman in Finding Neverland, co-starred in the comedy Meet the Fockers (both 2004) as Bernie Focker, the fantasy thriller Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and played the title character in the family comedy Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007). Hoffman has acted in the Kung Fu Panda franchise since 2008 and reprised his role as Focker in Little Fockers (2010). He starred in the HBO drama series Luck, which was cancelled after one season due to animal safety concerns, and made his directorial debut in 2012 with Quartet.^[6]

Film

Hoffman talks with extras on a movie set in Florida in 1974.

Hoffman in 1968

With Bette Midler on Bette Midler TV Special (1977)

in Death of a Salesman (1985)

Hoffman in Paris at the French premiere of Quartet, March 2013

Film credits of Dustin Hoffman

Title	Year	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
The Tiger Makes Out	1967	Hap	Arthur Hiller		[7]
The Graduate		Benjamin "Ben" Braddock	Mike Nichols		[7]
Madigan's Millions	1968	Jason Fister	Stanley Prager		[7]
Midnight Cowboy	1969	Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo	John Schlesinger		[7]
John and Mary		John	Peter Yates		[7]
Little Big Man	1970	Jack Crabb	Arthur Penn		[7]
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?	1971	Georgie Soloway	Ulu Grosbard		[7]
Straw Dogs		David Sumner	Sam Peckinpah		[7]
Alfredo, Alfredo	1972	Alfredo Sbisà	Pietro Germi		[7]
Papillon	1973	Louis Dega	Franklin J. Schaffner		[7]
Lenny	1974	Lenny Bruce	Bob Fosse		[7]
All the President's Men	1976	Carl Bernstein	Alan J. Pakula		[7]
Marathon Man		Thomas Babington "Babe" Levy	John Schlesinger		[7]
Straight Time	1978	Max Dembo	Ulu Grosbard	Also producer	[7]
Agatha	1979	Wally Stanton	Michael Apted		[7]
Kramer vs. Kramer		Ted Kramer	Robert Benton		[7]
Tootsie	1982	Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels	Sydney Pollack		[7]
Ishtar	1987	Chuck Clarke	Elaine May		[7]
Rain Man	1988	Raymond "Ray" Babbitt	Barry Levinson		[7]
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt	1989	Narrator	Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman	Documentary	[8]
Family Business		Vito McMullen	Sidney Lumet		[7]
Dick Tracy	1990	Mumbles	Warren Beatty		[7]
Billy Bathgate	1991	Dutch Schultz	Robert Benton		[7]
Hook		Captain James Hook	Steven Spielberg		[7]
Doctor Seuss Video Classics: Horton Hears a Who!	1992	Narrator			[7]
Hero		Bernard "Bernie" Laplante	Stephen Frears		[7]
Outbreak	1995	Colonel Sam Daniels	Wolfgang Petersen		[7]
American Buffalo	1996	Walt "Teach" Teacher	Michael Corrente		[7]
Sleepers		Danny Snyder	Barry Levinson		[7]
Mad City	1997	Max Brackett	Costa-Gavras		[7]
Wag the Dog		Stanley Motss	Barry Levinson		[7]
Sphere	1998	Dr. Norman Goodman	Barry Levinson		[7]
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	1999	The Conscience	Luc Besson		[7]
Moonlight Mile	2002	Ben Floss	Brad Silberling		[7]
Confidence	2003	Winston King	James Foley		[9]
Runaway Jury		Wendell Rohr	Gary Fleder		[9]
Finding Neverland	2004	Charles Frohman	Marc Forster		[9]
I ♥ Huckabees		Bernard Jaffe	David O. Russell		[9]
Meet the Fockers		Bernie Focker	Jay Roach		[9]
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events		The Critic	Brad Silberling	Uncredited cameo	[10]
Racing Stripes	2005	Tucker	Frederik Du Chau	Voice	[9]
The Lost City		Meyer Lansky	Andy García		[9]
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer	2006	Giuseppe Baldini	Tom Tykwer		[9]
Stranger than Fiction		Professor Jules Hilbert	Marc Forster		[9]
The Holiday		Himself	Nancy Meyers	Uncredited cameo
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium	2007	Mr. Edward Magorium	Zach Helm		[9]
Kung Fu Panda	2008	Master Shifu	John Stevenson & Mark Osborne	Voice	[9]
The Tale of Despereaux		Roscuro	Sam Fell & Robert Stevenhagen	Voice	[9]
Last Chance Harvey		Harvey Shine	Joel Hopkins		[9]
Barney's Version	2010	Israel "Izzy" Panofsky	Richard J. Lewis		[9]
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story		Narrator	Peter Miller	Documentary	[9]
Little Fockers		Bernie Focker	Paul Weitz		[9]
Kung Fu Panda 2	2011	Master Shifu	Jennifer Yuh Nelson	Voice	[9]
Quartet	2012	N/A	Dustin Hoffman	Directorial debut	[9]
Chef	2014	Riva	Jon Favreau		[9]
The Cobbler		Abraham Simkin	Thomas McCarthy		[9]
Boychoir		Carvelle	François Girard		[9]
The Program	2015	Bob Hamman	Stephen Frears		[9]
Kung Fu Panda 3	2016	Master Shifu	Jennifer Yuh Nelson	Voice	[9]
Yeh Din Ka Kissa	2017	Unknown	Noah Baumbach	Filming	[11]

Television

Television credits of Dustin Hoffman

Title	Year	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref.
Naked City	1961, 1963	Finney / Lester Stenton	N/A	2 episodes	[12]
The Defenders	1962, 1965	Buddy / Robert Burke	N/A	2 episodes
The Nurses	1965	Larson	David Pressman	Episode: "The Heroine"
The Journey of the Fifth Horse	1966	Zoditch	Larry Arrick & Earl Dawson	Television film	[9]
The Star-Wagon	1966	Hanus Wicks	Karl Genus	Television film	[9]
ABC Stage 67	1967	J.J. Semmons	Paul Bogart	Episode: "The Trap of Solid Gold"
Premiere	1968	Arthur Greene	Paul Bogart	Episode: "Higher and Higher, Attorneys at Law"
The Point	1971	Narrator / Father	Fred Wolf	Television film
Death of a Salesman	1985	William "Willy" Loman	Volker Schlöndorff	Television film	[13]
The Simpsons	1991	Mr. Bergstrom (voice)	Rich Moore	Episode: "Lisa's Substitute" Credited as Sam Etic	[14]
A Wish for Wings That Work	1991	Milquetoast the Cross-Dressing Cockroach (voice)	Skip Jones	Television special
Liberty's Kids	2002, 2003	Benedict Arnold (voice)	N/A	2 episodes	[15]
Curb Your Enthusiasm	2005	Larry's Guide #1	Larry Charles	Episode: "The End"	[16]
Luck	2011	Chester Bernstein	Various	9 episodes	[17]
Roald Dahl's Esio Trot	2015	Roald Dahl's Esio Trot	Mr Henry Hoppy	Television film
Medici: Masters of Florence	2016	Giovanni de' Medici	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan	Miniseries	[18]

Theatre

Theatre credits of Dustin Hoffman

Title	Year	Role	Playwright(s)	Venue	Notes	Ref.
A Cook for Mr. General	1961	Ridzinski	Steven Gethers	Playhouse Theatre		[19]
The Subject Was Roses	1964	Timmy Clearly	Frank D. Gilroy	Belasco Theatre	Stage manager and standby	[20]
Jimmy Shine	1968	Jimmy Shine	Murray Schisgal	Brooks Atkinson Theatre		[21]
All Over Town	1974		Murray Schisgal	Booth Theatre	Director	[22]
Death of a Salesman	1984	Willy Loman	Arthur Miller	Broadhurst Theatre		[23]
The Merchant Of Venice	1989	Shylock	William Shakespeare	46th Street Theatre		[24]

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