The graduate
1967 USA Color 105 Minutes
Congratulations
Within 9 days it will be Brian Avery`s 68th birthday. (July 13, 1940)
(Carl Smith)
Within 12 days it would have been Eddra Gale`s (Woman on Bus) 87th birthday.
* July 16, 1921
† May 13, 2001
For The Graduate Katharine Ross did some screen tests with Hoffman for the part: “He looked about three feet tall, so dead serious, so humorless, so unkempt”
August 8, 1937
Dustin Lee Hoffman
January 24, 1983
Dustin was born in Los Angeles. He made his off-Broadway debut in 1960 in Yes Is for a Very Young Man.
In 1967 Hoffman got his big break when he caught the attention of director Mike Nichols, who cast him in the The Graduate, which catapulted him into stardom.
Constantly looking for challenges, Dustin played the anti-hero in Midnight Cowboy (1969), Little Big Man (1970), and Marathon Man (1976) and the hero in All the President's Men.
The 1979 domestic drama Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and the comedy Tootsie (1982) were a major succes, but Dustin decided to go back to the theatre to portray Willy Loman in a Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman (1983).
He returned to the movies with a megaflop, the comedy Ishtar (1987) but revenged himself a year later with Rain man (1988).
During the nineties Hoffman's drawing power gradually diminished allthough he was nominated for another Academy award for Wag the dog (1997).
In the third millenium, his star rises again with the succes of Finding Neverland and Meet the Fockers (both 2004) and a lot of films planned for 2006.
1998 Nominated Best Actor for: Wag the Dog (1997)
1989 Won Oscar Best Actor for: Rain Man (1988)
1983 Nominated Best Actor for: Tootsie (1982)
1980 Won Oscar Best Actor for: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
1975 Nominated Best Actor for: Lenny (1974)
1970 Nominated Best Actor for: Midnight Cowboy (1969)
1968 Nominated Best Actor for: The Graduate (1967)
Dustin Hoffman: Hollywood's Antihero -> Jeff Lenburg (2001)