Basil Hoffman
Biography
Basil Hoffman was an American actor who worked five decades in film and television, mostly in supporting roles. Born in Houston in 1938, he graduated from Tulane University and later trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Thirteen years in New York brought plays, commercials, episodic television, a recurring part on One Life to Live and a role in Lady Liberty opposite Sophia Loren. After a first trip to Los Angeles in 1974, where he filmed At Long Last Love for Peter Bogdanovich, he appeared in episodes of Kung Fu, The Rockford Files, Columbo, Kojak and Barney Miller and had recurring roles on Ellery Queen and Square Pegs. His films included My Favorite Year (1982), The Electric Horseman (1979), Switch (1991), Rio, I Love You (2014) and the Best Picture winners Ordinary People (1980) and The Artist (2011). He won a Drama-Logue Award for Sand Mountain and wrote two books about acting. He died in 2021.
83years old at death
- Born Houston
- Died Hollywood
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Also credited as Basil Harry Hoffman
Movie Career
- Films
- 17
- Career span
- 39 years1978 to 2017
Genres
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Behind the award
Basil Hoffman won a Drama-Logue Award for his stage performance in Romulus Linney's Sand Mountain, one of his few stage appearances during a career mostly in film and television.
A change of course
In 2008, Hoffman went back to Beirut as a U.S. State Department Cultural Envoy to Lebanon, where he taught directing and acting at the University of Balamand's Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts and other Lebanese universities.
Behind the camera
Hoffman also wrote textbooks about acting, among them Acting and How To Be Good At It and Cold Reading And How to Be Good At It.
Basil Hoffman movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Six actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Box office
What Basil Hoffman's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$395 million
13 of the 17 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 17 films: 13 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 1 figure not found.
- 13Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 1Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 95% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$133M33.8% of the total
- 2$62M15.7% of the total
- 3$55M13.9% of the total
- 4$36M9.2% of the total
- 5$33M8.4% of the total
- 6$21M5.3% of the total
- 7$20M5.1% of the total
- 8$16M3.9% of the total
$18.2 millionfrom the other 5 films with a worldwide figure, 5% of the total
Online
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