Basil Hoffman
Biography
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 Tula...
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Basil Hoffman's Movies
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
14 Dec 1977
Hail, Caesar!
05 Feb 2016
The Artist
12 Oct 2011
All the President's Men
09 Apr 1976
The Box
29 Oct 2009
Down with Love
08 May 2003
Ordinary People
19 Sept 1980
The Last Word
03 Mar 2017
All of Me
21 Sept 1984
Switch
10 May 1991
Night Shift
30 Jul 1982
Communion
10 Nov 1989
The Electric Horseman
21 Dec 1979
My Favorite Year
01 Oct 1982
Love at First Bite
26 Apr 1979
The Milagro Beanfield War
18 Mar 1988
Comes a Horseman
25 Oct 1978
Rio, I Love You
12 Sept 2014
Lambada
16 Mar 1990
At Long Last Love
01 Mar 1975
Basil Hoffman's TV Shows
Seinfeld
05 Jul 1989
Columbo
15 Sept 1971
M*A*S*H
17 Sept 1972
The West Wing
22 Sept 1999
Murder, She Wrote
30 Sept 1984
The Twilight Zone
27 Sept 1985
Sledge Hammer!
23 Sept 1986
Night Court
04 Jan 1984
Kojak
24 Oct 1973
Matlock
03 Mar 1986
The Rockford Files
13 Sept 1974
Hill Street Blues
15 Jan 1981
Hill Street Blues
15 Jan 1981
The Practice
04 Mar 1997
The Waltons
14 Sept 1972
Sanford and Son
14 Jan 1972
Eerie, Indiana
15 Sept 1991
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
25 May 1997
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
29 Sept 1985
Barney Miller
23 Jan 1975