What movies has Dustin Hoffman been in?
After some TV roles in the early 1960s Dustin Lee Hoffman took a role in 1967’s The Tiger Makes Out and one of his most famous roles as Ben Braddock in The Graduate.
He continued this success with the controversial Midnight Cowboy and John and Mary in 1969 and after 1970’s Little Big Man he starred in Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs.
His success continued in the 1970s with the prison film Papillon, and an adaptation of the Watergate scandal book All the President`s Men and Marathon Man in 1976.
In 1979 he was awarded the an Academy Award in the Best Actor category for his role in Kramer vs. Kramer, the film also won Best Picture that year.
He slowed his role choices down in the 1980s but most were well received by the public and critics.
His cross-dressing role in 1982’s Tootsie gave him another Oscar nomination but it was his spot-on role as an autistic brother to Tom Cruise in 1988’s Rain Man that won him his second Oscar.
After starring as a family of crooks with Matthew Broderick and Sean Connery in 1989’s Family Business Hoffman donned a moustache, some fancy clothes and a hook for his role as the titular character in the 1991 Peter Pan tale Hook.
His other 1990s roles were the epidemic Outbreak, the politically awry Wag the Dog, and the psychological thriller Sphere with Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson.
The 2000s saw him playing in dramas Moonlight Mile, Runaway Jury and an unsettling role in 2002’s Confidence, as a crime boss.
I Heart Huckabees, Stranger Than Fiction, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, Last Chance Harvey and Meet the Fockers saw him in more humorous and lighthearted role amidst darker films such as Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Soon he will have a role in Barney’s Version, an adaptation of a Mordecai Richler book.
