Basil Hoffman

Highest Rated:
100% My Favorite Year (1982)
Lowest Rated:
10% At Long Last Love (1975)
Birthday:
Jan 18, 1938
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Tight-lipped, bespectacled American character actor Basil Hoffman made his first screen appearance in Lady Liberty (1972). Hoffman was at his brusque best playing cut-no-slack authority types. He was, for example, ideally cast as the gloriously named Principal Dingleman in the TV sitcom Square Pegs.…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 10% - 100%
Number of Movies: 25
Box Office Since 2001: $159.5M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 3 Geezers!
  • Actor
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2011 98% The Artist
  • Auctioneer
$44.7M
2009 45% The Box
  • Don Poates
$114.9M
2007 Bad Day - WW II
  • Actor
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2006 You Did What?
  • Actor
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1993 The Ice Runner
  • J.C. Kruck
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1992 The Double 0 Kid
  • Actor
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1992 Double O Kid
  • Trout
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1991 33% Switch
  • Higgins
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1989 Lambada
  • Superintendent Leland
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1989 20% Communion
  • Dr. Friedman
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1988 59% The Milagro Beanfield War
  • Governor's Office Staff
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1984 The Ratings Game (The Mogul)
  • Frank Friedlander
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1984 Kidco
  • Sid Fein
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1984 90% All of Me
  • Court Clerk
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1982 100% My Favorite Year
  • Herb Lee
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1982 95% Night Shift
  • Drollhauser
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1980 91% Ordinary People
  • Sloan
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1979 68% The Electric Horseman
  • Toland
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1979 Jennifer: A Woman's Story
  • Neil Turner
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1979 67% Love at First Bite
  • Desk Clerk
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1978 86% Comes a Horseman
  • George Bascomb
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1977 95% Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Actor
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1976 98% All the President's Men
  • Assistant Metro Editor
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1975 10% At Long Last Love
  • Actor
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Quotes from Basil Hoffman's Characters

    1. Auctioneer: [title card] Congratulations ! It's all sold, you've got nothing left!
    From The Artist. Submitted by Raj G (13 months ago)
    1. Auctioneer: [after having auctioned off all of Valentin's belongings] Congratulations, it's all sold. You've got nothing left.
    From The Artist. Submitted by Jerky S (15 months ago)
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