
Basil Hoffman
Oyuncu · 1938 – 2021 · Houston, Texas, USA
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.
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Film6.0RomantikKomediDracula and Renfield relocate to '70s era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker. "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's psychiatrist, Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Van Helsing, who may be in love with Cindy too.
Love at First Bite
1979 · 117 votes
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All of Me
1984 · 393 votes
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Film6.1WesternDramElla Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.
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1978 · 80 votes
Film6.1DramRomantikA former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.
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1979 · 173 votes
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1982 · 121 votes
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1984 · 26 votes
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Cage Without a Key
1975 · 1 votes
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2013 · 24 votes
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Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1975 · 1 votes
Film5.5DramMüzikKevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them academics. But when a jealous student exposes Kevin's double life, his two worlds collide, threatening his job and reputation.
Lambada
1990 · 39 votes
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Dizi8.2KomediSeinfeld, dokuz sezon boyunca yayınlanan toplam 169 bölümle televizyon tarihinin en çarpıcı devrimlerinden birini gerçekleştirdi. Yayınlandığı ülkelerde televizyonların en sevilen komedisi olmayı başaran Seinfeld, aynı kentte yaşayan dört arkadaşın gündelik hayatından kesitler sunuyor ve son derece basit fikirlerden ilginç açılımlara uzanıyor. Ana karakter Jerry Seinfeld kadar yan karakterler de dikkat çekici. Hemen her konuda kararsız biri olan Elaine, bitmeyen kompleksleriyle herkesi bıktıran George Costanza ve tuhaf karizması, parlak fikirleriyle Cosmo Kramer. Kumsalda uyuyor gibi hissedebilmek için kumla doldurulmuş yatakta uyumak fikri Cosmo Kramer’in dehasına sadece küçük bir örnek.
Seinfeld
1989 · 2.5K votes
Dizi8.1SuçDramKomiser Kolombo'da sherlokyan teğmen-dedektif rolünde Peter Falk var. Kirli pardesüsü, eski arabası, sempatik tavrıyla cinayet davalarını çözüyor. Katile yapışıyor, kızdırıcı sorularla köşeye sıkıştırıyor, ipuçlarını zekice buluyor, birleştiriyor. 70'lerin favori dizisiydi. 2 Golden Globes ödülü. 20 farklı ödül ve 45 adaylık.
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1971 · 860 votes
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1999 · 614 votes
Dizi7.6DramA provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
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1997 · 114 votes
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1984 · 471 votes
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M*A*S*H
1972 · 773 votes
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1981 · 65 votes
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1984 · 149 votes
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Hill Street Blues
1981 · 130 votes
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1972 · 106 votes
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1974 · 133 votes
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1986 · 143 votes
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Barney Miller
1975 · 62 votes
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1985 · 64 votes
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1997 · 64 votes
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1973 · 155 votes
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1972 · 102 votes
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1986 · 183 votes
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1975 · 42 votes
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1991 · 84 votes
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For the People is an American Legal drama that aired from July 21, 2002 until February 16, 2003.
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2002 · 1 votes
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1996 · 29 votes
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Out of the Blue
1979 · 3 votes