Philip Seymour Hoffman

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 to appear in films in 1992. He gained recognition for his supporting work, notably in Scent of a Woman (1992), Boogie Nights (1997), Happiness (1998), Patch Adams (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Almost Famous (2000), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), and Along Came Polly (2004). He began to occasionally play leading roles, and for his portrayal of the author Truman Capote in Capote (2005), won multiple accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. Hoffman's profile continued to grow and he received three more Oscar nominations for his supporting work as a brutally frank CIA officer in Charlie Wilson's War (2007), a priest accused of pedophilia in Doubt (2008), and the charismatic leader of a Scientology-type movement in The Master (2012). While he mainly worked in independent films, including The Savages (2007) and Synecdoche, New York (2008), Hoffman also appeared in Flawless (1999), and Hollywood blockbusters such as Twister (1996) and Mission: Impossible III (2006), and in one of his final roles, as Plutarch Heavensbee in the Hunger Games series (2013–15). The feature Jack Goes Boating (2010) marked his debut as a filmmaker. Hoffman was also an accomplished theater actor and director. He joined the off-Broadway LAByrinth Theater Company in 1995, where he directed, produced, and appeared in numerous stage productions. His performances in three Broadway plays—True West in 2000, Long Day's Journey into Night in 2003, and Death of a Salesman in 2012—all led to Tony Award nominations.

Known For: Acting

Born: Fairport, New York, USA, 1967-07-23

Died: 2014-02-02

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1992	Triple Bogey On A Par Five Hole	Klutch	37
2	1992	My New Gun	Chris	41
3	1992	Leap of Faith	Matt	57
4	1992	Scent of a Woman	George Willis, Jr.	78
5	1993	Joey Breaker	Wiley McCall	45
6	1993	My Boyfriend's Back	Chuck Bronski	57
7	1993	Money for Nothing	Cochran	55
8	1994	The Getaway	Frank Hansen	57
9	1994	Szuler	Martin	40
10	1994	The Yearling	Buck	58
11	1994	When a Man Loves a Woman	Gary	66
12	1994	Nobody's Fool	Officer Raymer	69
13	1994	It Is Now Our Time: Peter Sellars’ The Merchant of Venice	Launcelot Gobbo	0
14	1995	The Fifteen Minute Hamlet	Bernardo, Horatio & Laertes	72
15	1996	Twister	Dusty	65
16	1996	Hard Eight	Young Craps Player	69
17	1997	Anita Liberty	Man at Party #3	70
18	1997	Culture	Bill	60
19	1997	Boogie Nights	Scotty J.	76
20	1998	Montana	Duncan	57
21	1998	The Big Lebowski	Brandt	78
22	1998	Next Stop Wonderland	Sean	60
23	1998	Happiness	Allen	75
24	1998	Patch Adams	Mitch Roman	73
25	1999	Flawless	Rusty	62
26	1999	Magnolia	Phil Parma	77
27	1999	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Freddie Miles	72
28	2000	Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley'	Self	55
29	2000	That Moment: Magnolia Diary	Self	76
30	2000	Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'	Self	54
31	2000	State and Main	Joseph Turner White	63
32	2000	Almost Famous	Lester Bangs	75
33	2001	Last Party 2000	Self	61
34	2002	Red Dragon	Freddy Lounds	70
35	2002	Punch-Drunk Love	Dean Trumbell	71
36	2002	25th Hour	Jacob Elinsky	73
37	2002	Love Liza	Wilson Joel	63
38	2003	A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'	Himself	80
39	2003	Owning Mahowny	Dan Mahowny	68
40	2003	The Evolution of an American Filmmaker	Self	73
41	2003	Mattress Man Commercial	Dean Trumbull	69
42	2003	Cold Mountain	Reverend Veasey	69
43	2004	Along Came Polly	Sandy Lyle	60
44	2005	Capote	Truman Capote	70
45	2006	Making Capote: Concept to Script	Self	65
46	2006	Truman Capote: Answered Prayers	Self	40
47	2006	Mission: Impossible III	Owen Davian	67
48	2006	Strangers with Candy	Henry	56
49	2007	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Andy Hanson	71
50	2007	The Savages	Jon Savage	68
51	2007	Charlie Wilson's War	Gust Avrakotos	65
52	2008	Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made	Self	53
53	2008	Synecdoche, New York	Caden Cotard	75
54	2008	Doubt	Father Brendan Flynn	72
55	2009	I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale	Self	68
56	2009	The Boat That Rocked	The Count	72
57	2009	Doubt: Stage to Screen	Self	70
58	2009	Mary and Max	Max (voice)	79
59	2009	The Invention of Lying	Jim the Bartender	62
60	2010	Restoring a Masterpiece: The Renovation of Eastman Theatre	Narrator (voice)	80
61	2010	Jack Goes Boating	Jack	60
62	2011	A Child's Garden of Poetry	Self (voice)	40
63	2011	Moneyball	Art Howe	73
64	2011	The Ides of March	Paul Zara	67
65	2012	Moneyball: Playing the Game	Self (Archival Footage)	64
66	2012	The Master	Lancaster Dodd	71
67	2012	A Late Quartet	Robert Gelbart	67
68	2013	Discord and Harmony: Creating a Late Quartet	Self	20
69	2013	Salinger	Self - Actor	63
70	2013	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Plutarch Heavensbee	74
71	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
72	2014	God's Pocket	Mickey Scarpato	58
73	2014	A Most Wanted Man	Günther Bachmann	65
74	2014	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1	Plutarch Heavensbee	68
75	2015	The Making of A Most Wanted Man	Self	0
76	2015	Straight From The Heart: A Tribute To Philip Seymour Hoffman	Self (Archive Footage)	0
77	2015	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2	Plutarch Heavensbee	69
78	2016	Starring Austin Pendleton	Self	67

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	68
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	70
3	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	46
4	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self	55
5	1990	Law & Order	Steven Hanauer	74
6	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
7	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	71
8	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	74
9	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
10	1996	Arthur	William Fillmore Toffman (voice)	70
11	1997	Liberty!	Joseph Plumb Martin	78
12	1999	The Directors	Self	58
13	1999	The Early Show	Self - Guest	57
14	2002	Icons		80
15	2002	HypaSpace	Self	40
16	2005	Empire Falls	Charlie Mayne	66
17	2012	Too Young to Die	Self (archive footage)	72
18	2013	The Frame	Plutarch Heavensbee	100