He also had a leading role as the head of an eccentric family in the ensemble cast film The Royal Tenenbaums and in yet another Grisham legal drama, Runaway Jury, at long last getting to make a picture with his longtime friend Dustin Hoffman.

" The second disc also contains an additional ten tracks ( Hoffman did not remaster the extra tracks ).

In an interview, Dustin Hoffman also indicated he did not know much about the animal when he first agreed to voice the character.

Hoffman states that “ even the most cursory review of terrorist tactics and targets over the past quarter century reveals that terrorists have violated all these rules .” Hoffman also states that when states transgress these rules of war “ the term “ war crime ” is used to describe such acts .”

Conservative talk show hosts also lent their unified support for Congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, a conservative third-party candidate who was running in New York's 23rd congressional district special election, 2009 against a liberal Republican ( Dierdre Scozzafava ) and a mainstream Democrat ( Bill Owens ).

Hoffman also occasionally performed television commercials ; an oft-replayed segment on programs that explore actors ' early work is a clip showing Hoffman touting the Volkswagen Fastback.

( 1971 ), Straw Dogs ( also 1971 ), and Papillon ( 1973 ) were followed by Lenny ( 1974 ), for which Hoffman received his third nomination for Best Actor in seven years.

Hoffman next starred in Marathon Man ( also 1976 ), a film based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, opposite Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider.

Hoffman gained his first Academy Award, and the film also received the Best Picture honor, plus the awards for Best Supporting Actress ( Streep ) and Director.

In the mid-1990s, Hoffman starred in — and was deeply involved in the production of — David Mamet's American Buffalo ( also 1996 ), and an early effort of film editor Kate Sanford.

Hoffman finally had a chance to work with Gene Hackman in Gary Fleder's Runaway Jury ( also 2003 ), an adaptation of John Grisham's bestselling novel.

In director David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees ( also 2004 ), Hoffman appeared opposite Lily Tomlin as an existential detective team member.

Hoffman appeared in Stranger than Fiction ( 2006 ), played the perfumer Giuseppe Baldini in Tom Tykwer's film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ( also 2006 ), and had a cameo in the same year's The Holiday.

Hoffman will also direct Quartet, a BBC Films comedy starring Maggie Smith and Tom Courtenay.

Hoffman also has two grandchildren.

He was also a student of the Marxist theorist Herbert Marcuse, whom Hoffman said had a profound effect on his political outlook after studying his philosophy.

Simon and Garfunkel also contributed extensively to the soundtrack of the Mike Nichols film The Graduate ( 1967 ), starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft.

Upland is also very well known worldwide throughout the skateboarding culture as " Badlands " because of Upland's geographical location and mainly because it was the birthplace of Vertical Pool and Pipe Skateboarding. The city was home to The Pipeline Skate Park, which opened in 1977 by Stan and Jean Hoffman and was located on 1777 W. Arrow Highway.

Barrett is part of the West Central Area School District, which also includes the communities of Elbow Lake, Hoffman, Kensington, and Wendell.

James Hoffman is currently the Town Supervisor and also serves as Chairman of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors.

He played a software company's scheming CEO in Barry Levinson's 1994 drama Disclosure opposite Michael Douglas and in 1995 was cast as the antagonistic Maj. Gen. Donald McClintock in Wolfgang Petersen's thriller Outbreak, also featuring Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, and Rene Russo.

In the Spider-Man films, however, Ted plays Daily Bugle advertising manager Ted Hoffman, while Campbell has played different roles every time.

Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Huddleston, Julianne Moore, Tara Reid, and John Turturro star in the film, which is narrated by a cowboy known only as " The Stranger ," played by Sam Elliott.

Hoffman played the lead role in Outbreak ( 1995 ), alongside Rene Russo, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Donald Sutherland.

Hoffman played theater owner Charles Frohman in the J. M. Barrie historical fantasia Finding Neverland ( 2004 ), costarring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.

Herrmann chose unusual instrumentation for the film: violin, cello, and bass ( all three electric ), two theremin electronic instruments ( played by Dr. Samuel Hoffman and Paul Shure ), two Hammond organs, a large studio electric organ, three vibraphones, two glockenspiels, marimba, tam-tam, 2 bass drums, 3 sets of timpani, two pianos, celesta, two harps, 1 horn, three trumpets, three trombones, and four tubas.

In the film Hook, Captain James Hook is played by Dustin Hoffman.

According to her, Mostel is " overacting grotesquely " while co-star Wilder is " wonderful " playing his part " as though he were Dustin Hoffman being played by Danny Kaye.

Her mother's remarriage introduces a conniving stepbrother from New York named Eric ( played by Joshua Hoffman ) in a two-part episode, although neither her mother nor stepfather are featured.

Dustin Hoffman played Willy.

Directed by Mike Nichols, Philip Seymour Hoffman played Willy, Andrew Garfield played Biff, and Linda Emond played Linda.

Hawke played an ex-husband in desperate need of child support who decides to rob his parent's jewelry store with his brother ( Hoffman ), with disastrous consequences.

During the play's two year run, The Subject Was Roses played five different Broadway theaters and Dustin Hoffman became a replacement stage manager and understudied the role of Timmy.

As well as the major characters played by Hall, Hoffman, Macy, Moore, Reilly and Walters, there are cameo performances from Alfred Molina as ' Quiz Kid ' Donnie Smith's employer Solomon Solomon, Luis Guzmán as Luis, one of the adult contestants on " What Do Kids Know?

* Kim Peek, the basis for the character played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rain Man, was one of the few people ever verified to actually have an eidetic memory, and was also a speed reader and calculator.

Just prior to the start of the season, a frustrated Hoffman walked away from the Blitz, leaving the team to the minority owners --- walking away before his new team even played a down.

The 2000 film, Steal This Movie, mostly tells the story of Abbie Hoffman ( played by Vincent D ' Onofrio ) but also looks at the trial.

In the 1997 movie Wag the Dog, a Washington, D. C. spin doctor distracts the electorate from a U. S. presidential sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood producer played by Dustin Hoffman.

Foreign critics applauded her work as well, including Adina Hoffman, who praised her as " a young, serious looking Diane Lane " and Martin Hoyle, who commented that Stiles played Kat " with bloody-minded independent charm from the beginning with hints of wistfulness beneath the determination.

In 2005, Hoffman played the title role in the biographical film Capote ( 2005 ), for which he won multiple acting awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor.

In the film Snow White: A Tale of Terror, the character is not a Queen, but rather a noblewoman named Lady Claudia Hoffman played by Sigourney Weaver, and is partly portrayed as a tragic character.