Basil Hoffman
演员
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电影
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电视节目
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. ...
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作为演员/演员
宋飞传
假发推销员
哥伦坡
Jason Danziger
西翼
众议员
犯罪记者
Milton Overguard
沃尔顿家族
Prof Ranney
从业者
Tucker's Atty. Art Hardiman (uncredited)
猎鹰冠
Reverend Mustafa
捣碎
Major Pfiefer
马特洛克
Gary Springer
希尔街布鲁斯
Ed Greenglass (archive footage) (uncredited)
夜阁
Duane Sedgwick
罗克福德档案
前台文员(姓名不详)
暮光之城
Mr. Steward (segment "Button, Button")
新阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克呈现
迈克尔斯博士
巴尼·米勒
Allen Korbel
超越现实
Gerald Stanley (segment "The Dresser")
科贾克
Charlie Winston
大锤!
Sam Steinway
桑福德父子
店主
埃勒里奎恩
Technical Print Man, Harry
第三类近距离接触
Longly (uncredited)
印第安纳州伊利
Bert (uncredited)
盒子
Don Poates
凯撒万岁!
Stu Schwartz (Accounting)
艺术家
拍卖
亲属:拥抱者
Charon the Coroner
所有总统的人
Assistant Metro Editor
人们喜欢一个
斯隆
被爱打倒
C. W. (uncredited)
夜间服务
Drollhauser