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Dustin Hoffman

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Dustin Hoffman

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Also known as Dustin Lee Hoffman

American actor (born 1937)

OverviewAI-generated

Dustin Hoffman is a person whose work period began in 1967. He was born in 1937 and has a height of 165. Hoffman is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Academy Award Best Actor collection.

He is an author with six works, including *Kramer vs. Kramer*, *Jimmy Shine*, *All over town*, *Midnight cowboy*, and *Full circle*. Crossref lists five works associated with him. In music contexts, he has 296 listeners and a playcount of 1049 on Last.fm. Similar artists include John Conteh, Mercedes McCambridge, Al Coury, Ted Danson, and Clive Arrowsmith.

Hoffman is referenced by 2,200 other encyclopedia articles. His name appears in the Commons category "Dustin Hoffman."

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1937
Works
6

Top works

  • Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Jimmy Shine
  • All over town
  • Midnight cowboy
  • Full circle

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Active from
1967

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
296
Total plays
1,049

Similar artists

John ContehMercedes McCambridgeAl CouryTed DansonClive Arrowsmith

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dustin+Hoffman">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Comprehensive Integration of Single-Cell Data

    · 2019 · cited 15,292x

  2. Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data

    · 2021 · cited 15,043x

  3. Integrating single-cell transcriptomic data across different conditions, technologies, and species

    · 2018 · cited 12,902x

  4. <tt>emcee</tt>: The MCMC Hammer

    · 2013 · cited 12,233x

  5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,992x

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Quotes

  • “Sam's like a fight trainer. He shapes you up, he psyches you, he draws everything out of you. He's subtle, though, yet baroque, and I want to get into that baroqueness. Like the other day, during a scene in which I was supposed to be answering the door and registering surprise. Well, it was the end of the day and I wasn't acting very surprised, so he smashes a beer bottle behind me, right out of camera range. I mean, Christ, I nearly jumped out of my skin. But he got what he wanted.”
  • “The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. As one of the key leading man actors in the formation of New Hollywood, Hoffman is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. Among his numerous accolades are two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards as well as a nomination for a Tony Award. He was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1997, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 2012.

Hoffman studied at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music before he decided to go into acting, for which he trained at the Pasadena Playhouse. He made his film debut with the black comedy The Tiger Makes Out (1967). He went on to receive two Academy Awards for Best Actor playing a man going through a divorce in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and an autistic savant in Rain Man (1988). He was Oscar-nominated for The Graduate (1967), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Lenny (1974), Tootsie (1982), and Wag the Dog (1997). Other notable roles include in Little Big Man (1970), Straw Dogs (1971), Papillon (1973), Marathon Man (1976), All the President's Men (1976), Ishtar (1987), Dick Tracy (1990), Hook (1991) and Chef (2014).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dustin Hoffman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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