Basil Hoffman
出生 : 1938-01-18, Houston, Texas, USA
死亡 : 2021-09-17
略歴
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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Mr. Roberts
The question is...do you ever really know anyone?
Christopher Georrge
何不自由ない生活の中で孤独と死に不安を抱くハリエット（シャーリー・マクレーン）は、生きているうちに自分の訃報記事を用意しようと考える。地元新聞社の訃報記事担当者のアン（アマンダ・セイフライド）に執筆を依頼するが、これまで自分中心だったハリエットをよく言う人はいなかった。理想とはほど遠い内容の原稿を読んだハリエットは、最高の訃報記事のため自分を変えようと行動を起こす。
Principal Parker
A high school teen stumbles into the aftermath of a bank robbery gone wrong and finds himself locked inside his school trying to keep himself and his teacher alive as one of the psychotic robbers hunts them down.
Stu Schwartz (Accounting)
1950年代のハリウッド。某メジャースタジオでは、社運を懸けたスペクタクル超大作『ヘイル、シーザー!』が撮影されていた。しかし主演俳優である大スターのウィットロックが何者かに誘拐され、現場は大混乱。事態の収拾を任されたのは、スタジオの様々な問題を片付ける“何でも屋”のエディだった。セクシーな若手女優や、人気ミュージカルスター、演技が下手な西部劇俳優たちを巻き込んで、エディは事件解決に挑むが…。
Monsieur Tissot
The French American is a drama film directed by Darla Rae
Judge Eller
A young criminal defense attorney struggles with a homicide case that is not as cut and dry as it appears while battling a drinking habit. The story goes beyond the lives of those directly related to the case and shines a much needed spotlight on the horrific world of human trafficking in the United States.
James (segment "La Fortuna")
The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrating the distinctive qualities and character of that location. The film serves to bridge gaps between cultures, educating and entertaining the audience, while celebrating unique and universal expressions of love.
Victor
Follow actor J Kimball as he researches what it's like to be old for a role in an upcoming movie. When he meets the residents at The Coconuts convalescent home, he quickly discovers that his perceptions of the elderly may be off from today's reality. After being on the wrong end of some pranks, J enlists the help of his Hollywood friends to turn the tides. Mayhem ensues.
Mr. Black
“SURREAL ESTATE” is a dark comedy short about a man, Mr. Smith, who attempts to rent a house and everything that can go wrong…does. It’s for anyone who has ever been to the DMV, changed checkout lines in a supermarket, or tried to navigate an automated telephone menu. It's the absurd chaos that develops in our minds as fantasy, but for Mr. Smith, it's all too real.
Auctioneer
サイレントからトーキーへと移り変わるころのハリウッドを舞台に、スター俳優の葛藤と愛を美しいモノクロ映像でつづるサイレント映画。アカデミー作品賞、監督賞、主演男優賞など5部門を受賞。
1927年のハリウッドで、サイレント映画のスターとして君臨していたジョージ・ヴァレンティン（ジャン・デュジャルダン）は、新作の舞台あいさつで新人女優ペピー（ベレニス・ベジョ）と出会う。その後オーディションを経て、ジョージの何げないアドバイスをきっかけにヒロインを務めるほどになったペピーは、トーキー映画のスターへと駆け上がる。一方ジョージは、かたくなにサイレントにこだわっていたが、自身の監督・主演作がヒットせず……。
Calvin Adams
Retired Oscar-winning actor Calvin Adams attempts to outwit some neighborhood kids in a battle to sell the most lemonade.
Don Poates
ある日の朝、ノーマとアーサー夫妻の元に、赤いボタン付きの装置が入った箱が届く。夕方、謎めいた男がノーマを訪ね「このボタンを押せば100万ドルを手に入れられるが、代わりに見知らぬ誰かが死ぬ。考える猶予は24時間」と驚くべき提案を持ちかける。二人は迷いながらもボタンを押してしまう。
C. W. (uncredited)
舞台は1960年代のニューヨーク。新進女流作家・バーバラの女性解放本が大ヒットし、その煽りを受けたプレイボーイのキャッチャーは、バーバラに恋の罠を仕掛けるが……。レニー・ゼルウィガー×ユアン・マクレガー共演のラヴ・コメディ。
Lawyer
The unauthorized biography of Hugh Hefner and the birth of the Playboy empire.
Culture is a 1997 short film directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, with Greg Germann, Florence Stanley, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
J.C. Kruck
US-agent West travels to Moscow for the CIA in order to buy Russian weapons and to send them to the rebels in Afghanistan. When West gets caught he hides his identity and receives 15 years in a working camp in Siberia as penalty
Professor Sauer
Mimi, a free spirited girl out shopping, is given a mysterious box by a dying man, who instructs her not to give it to his killers. While being chased by the thugs who killed him, she meets Howard, an uptight dental student, who enlists his private detective uncle to help them find out the truth about the box.
Higgins
Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
Dr. Friedman
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
Frank Friedlander
A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.
Court Clerk
Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's body instead, forcing him to battle Edwina for control of his own being.
A CBS Schoolbreak Special about a 12-year-old mentally-challenged girl whose parents decide to remove her from the institution where she was raised, and try to give her a home life.
Dwayne Hilson
Hard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is dismayed to find she now has to learn the rules of the corporate game.
Herb Lee
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.
Drollhauser
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Alexander
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Sloan
シカゴ郊外の住宅街。弁護士のカルビンは長男をボート事故で失って以来落胆したままの日々を送り、妻のベスは同じ事故で生き残った次男コンラッドへつらく当たっていた。そんなコンラッドも自分が兄の死の現場にいあわせたという事実の重みに耐えかねて自殺未遂を図り、心の病を治すための施設に入院。４カ月後、退院したコンラッドは自分の学校に再び通いだすが、カルビンはそんな彼を今度は精神分析医のセラピーに通わせる。
Toland
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Hotel Manager (uncredited)
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Neil Turner
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George Bascomb
Ella 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.
Dr. Kanlan
A young advertising executive, blinded in a gun accident, attempts to rebuild his life and career by living through a nightclub entertainer who befriends him.
Longly (uncredited)
ある日、ラコーム率いる調査団がメキシコの砂漠で第二次大戦時の戦闘機を発見する。それは、消失当時と変わらぬ姿で残っていた。一方アメリカのインディアナ州では、町一帯の停電を調べていた電気技師ロイがUFOのような光を発見。以来、彼はこの不思議な光にすっかり魅了され、その正体を探っていく。やがて、光が行き着く先はワイオミング州のデビルズ・タワーという山だと判明するのだが…。
Photographer
Tired of being short, a sixth-grader buys a magical book that enables him to "Think Big".
Assistant Metro Editor
ある夜、ウォーターゲート・ビルに侵入した四人の窃盗犯が現行犯逮捕された。単なる強盗と思われたこの事件だが、ワシントン・ポストの記者ボブ・ウッドワードとカール・バーンスタインは数々の疑念、妨害を乗り越え調査を進めていく。そして、これがのちに合衆国大統領ニクソンを失脚させる一大スキャンダルへと発展していくのだった…。
Fingerprint Expert
When a famous fashion designer is found murdered, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD is baffled by her dying clue, prompting him to bring in his son, mystery writer Ellery Queen, to help in the investigation. This was the pilot film for the short-lived TV series.
Judge
A high school girl who needs a ride accepts one from a boy she doesn't know. He then forces her to participate in a robbery, in which a clerk is killed. They are soon caught, and the girl, despite her protestations of innocence, is convicted of first-degree murder and sent to prison. Once she gets there, she finds out that her troubles are just beginning.
Movie Theatre Manager
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
Richards
A retired cop goes up against a slick jewel thief and his gang, who have pulled a diamond heist and are trying to smuggle the diamonds cross-country.
Willett (uncredited)
The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Maddalena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country carrying a huge mortadella sausage which she intends as a gift for her fiancé. But Customs do not allow processed meat to enter the U.S., so she is held at JFK airport...
