Actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Biography

Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor, director, and producer. Best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles–typically lowlifes, eccentrics, bullies, and misfits—Hoffman acted in many films, including leading roles, from the early 1990s until his death in 2014. Drawn to theater as a teenager, Hoffman studied acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He began his screen career in a 1991 episode of Law & Order and started t ...

Known For
Acting
2016 -- Starring Austin Pendleton | Self
2015 -- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Plutarch Heavensbee
2015 -- Straight From The Heart: A Tribute To Philip Seymour Hoffman | Self (Archive Footage)
2015 -- The Making of A Most Wanted Man | Self
2014 -- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Plutarch Heavensbee
2014 -- A Most Wanted Man | Günther Bachmann
2014 -- God's Pocket | Mickey Scarpato
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2013 -- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Plutarch Heavensbee
2013 -- Salinger | Self - Actor
2013 -- Discord and Harmony: Creating a Late Quartet | Self
2012 -- A Late Quartet | Robert Gelbart
2012 -- The Master | Lancaster Dodd
2012 -- Moneyball: Playing the Game | Self (Archival Footage)
2011 -- The Ides of March | Paul Zara
2011 -- Moneyball | Art Howe
2011 -- A Child's Garden of Poetry | Self (voice)
2010 -- Jack Goes Boating | Jack
2010 -- Restoring a Masterpiece: The Renovation of Eastman Theatre | Narrator (voice)
2009 -- The Invention of Lying | Jim the Bartender
2009 -- Mary and Max | Max (voice)
2009 -- Doubt: Stage to Screen | Self
2009 -- The Boat That Rocked | The Count
2009 -- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self
2008 -- Doubt | Father Brendan Flynn
2008 -- Synecdoche, New York | Caden Cotard
2008 -- Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made | Self
2007 -- Charlie Wilson's War | Gust Avrakotos
2007 -- The Savages | Jon Savage
2007 -- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Andy Hanson
2006 -- Strangers with Candy | Henry
2006 -- Mission: Impossible III | Owen Davian
2006 -- Truman Capote: Answered Prayers | Self
2006 -- Making Capote: Concept to Script | Self
2005 -- Capote | Truman Capote
2004 -- Along Came Polly | Sandy Lyle
2003 -- Cold Mountain | Reverend Veasey
2003 -- Mattress Man Commercial | Dean Trumbull
2003 -- The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | Self
2003 -- Owning Mahowny | Dan Mahowny
2003 -- A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' | Himself
2002 -- Love Liza | Wilson Joel
2002 -- 25th Hour | Jacob Elinsky
2002 -- Punch-Drunk Love | Dean Trumbell
2002 -- Red Dragon | Freddy Lounds
2001 -- Last Party 2000 | Self
2000 -- Almost Famous | Lester Bangs
2000 -- State and Main | Joseph Turner White
2000 -- Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' | Self
2000 -- That Moment: Magnolia Diary | Self
2000 -- Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley' | Self
1999 -- The Talented Mr. Ripley | Freddie Miles
1999 -- Magnolia | Phil Parma
1999 -- Flawless | Rusty
1998 -- Patch Adams | Mitch Roman
1998 -- Happiness | Allen
1998 -- Next Stop Wonderland | Sean
1998 -- The Big Lebowski | Brandt
1998 -- Montana | Duncan
1997 -- Boogie Nights | Scotty J.
1997 -- Culture | Bill
1997 -- Anita Liberty | Man at Party #3
1996 -- Hard Eight | Young Craps Player
1996 -- Twister | Dusty
1995 -- The Fifteen Minute Hamlet | Bernardo, Horatio & Laertes
1994 -- It Is Now Our Time: Peter Sellars’ The Merchant of Venice | Launcelot Gobbo
1994 -- Nobody's Fool | Officer Raymer
1994 -- When a Man Loves a Woman | Gary
1994 -- The Yearling | Buck
1994 -- Szuler | Martin
1994 -- The Getaway | Frank Hansen
1993 -- Money for Nothing | Cochran
1993 -- My Boyfriend's Back | Chuck Bronski
1993 -- Joey Breaker | Wiley McCall
1992 -- Scent of a Woman | George Willis, Jr.
1992 -- Leap of Faith | Matt
1992 -- My New Gun | Chris
1992 -- Triple Bogey On A Par Five Hole | Klutch
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