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Dustin Hoffman
Hoffman had been set to play the role of Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in Mel Brooks' 1968 movie The Producers, but dropped out when he landed the role of Benjamin Braddock, opposite Anne Bancroft.
Dustin Hoffman
Hoffman also played the title role of Captain Hook in Steven Spielberg's Hook, earning a Golden Globe nomination; in this movie, Hoffman's costume was so heavy that he had to wear an air-conditioned suit under it.
Dustin Hoffman
Hoffman played the lead role in Outbreak, alongside Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Donald Sutherland.
Kim Peek
Dustin Hoffman, who played Babbit, met Peek and other savants to get an understanding of their nature and to play the role with accuracy (see Method acting).
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
The story begins with young Joan witnessing the atrocities of the English against her family, following her through her visions, to her leadership in battle, through doubt (with Dustin Hoffman playing a character credited as "the Conscience"), and finally to her trial and execution.
Kim Peek
He was the inspiration for the character of Raymond Babbit, played by Dustin Hoffman, in the movie Rain Man.
Café du Monde
In the first scene characters played by Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz meet inside during a busy lunch hour, while in the second scene Gene Hackman and John Cusack's characters meet close by.
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Midnight Cowboy
Dustin Hoffman, who played a grizzled veteran of New York's streets, is actually from Los Angeles.
Midnight Cowboy (film)
Dustin Hoffman, who played a grizzled veteran of New York's streets, is actually from Los Angeles.
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Robert Evans (producer)
In the 1997 movie Wag the Dog, a Washington, D.C. spin doctor distracts the electorate from a U.S. presidential sex scandal, by hiring a Hollywood producer played by Dustin Hoffman.
Robert Evans (film producer)
In the 1997 movie Wag the Dog, a Washington, D.C. spin doctor distracts the electorate from a U.S. presidential sex scandal, by hiring a Hollywood producer played by Dustin Hoffman.
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Dustin Hoffman
More recently, Hoffman played theater owner Charles Frohman in the J.M. Barrie biopic Finding Neverland, costarring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.
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Dustin Hoffman
More recently, Hoffman played theater owner Charles Frohman in the J.M. Barrie biopic Finding Neverland, costarring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.
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The Graduate
Dustin Hoffman was playing a 21-year-old college graduate, but was actually 29 during filming and 30 when the film was released.
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Kim Peek
Dustin Hoffman, who played Babbit, met Peek and other savants to get an understanding of their nature and to play the role with accuracy (see Method acting).
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Louis Dega
Director Franklin J. Schaffner adapted the book to a movie in 1973, with Steve McQueen playing Papillon, and Dustin Hoffman playing Dega.
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Alan J. Pakula
Finally, in 1976, Pakula rounded out the "trilogy" with All the President's Men, based on the bestselling account of the Watergate scandal written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who were played in the movie by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.
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Dutch Schultz
In the 1991 film adaptation of the book, Schultz is played by Dustin Hoffman.
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Virtual actor
(Bela Lugosi and Margaret Hamilton became typecast with their roles as Count Dracula and the Wicked Witch of the West, whereas Anthony Hopkins and Dustin Hoffman have played a diverse range of parts.)
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Syracuse Stage
Towards the end of the 1982 movie Tootsie, Michael Dorsey, the character in Tootsie played by Dustin Hoffman, reports he has found acting work at Syracuse, presumably at the Syracuse Stage.
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Little Big Man
Hoffman holds the record for portraying the greatest age span of a single character, playing Jack Crabb from the age of 17 to 121.
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Madigan's Millions
Hoffman's Fister is a seemingly-naive and mild-manner government bureaucrat with a sense for sniffing out phonies, similar to the role Hoffman would play the following year in The Graduate.
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The Improv
Dustin Hoffman played piano there.
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Anne Bancroft
Other major film roles were in The Pumpkin Eater, 7 Women, and what is unquestionably her best-known role, that of the married Mrs. Robinson, a woman who seduces a much-younger recent college graduate, played by Dustin Hoffman, in the film The Graduate.
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Scylla
In the movie adaptation, Scylla was played by Roy Scheider and the younger brother was played by Dustin Hoffman.
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Meet the Parents
Directed again by Jay Roach with a screenplay by James Herzfeld and John Hamburg, the sequel chronicles the events that take place when the Byrnes family meets Bernie and Roz Focker, Greg's parents, played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand respectively.
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Typecasting (acting)
Dustin Hoffman played the disreputable, manipulative Ratso in the gritty film Midnight Cowboy after playing the naive Benjamin in The Graduate, which may have helped him to avoid typecasting.
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Captain Hook
In the film Hook, Captain James Hook is played by Dustin Hoffman.
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