Basil Hoffman
Harry Basil Hoffman ( born January 18, 1938 in Houston, Texas ) is an American actor.
Life
Hoffman studied economics at Tulane University. After his undergraduate degree, he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. He worked in the sequence at the theater and appeared in commercials as well as in an episode of the soap opera love, lies, passion. In 1974, he first went to Los Angeles, where he received guest appearances on several television series, including The Rockford Files - Just call Kung Fu and MASH. Hoffman initially returned to New York, but moved in 1976 to Los Angeles permanently. He played in the 1970s, among other minor roles in The Untouchables, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Electric Horseman. In the 1980s he worked mostly for television, his feature films of this decade include solo for 2 and Milagro - The war in the bean field. In the following years, his film appearances were few and far between and sometimes he remained unnamed in the film credits. In 2011 he was seen in the many Oscar -nominated silent film The Artist.
Hoffman worked as a private acting coach, among others, the American Film Institute, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the University of Southern California. He was at times a member of the Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild and sat in the art advisory board of the Loyola Marymount University. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is also the author of two spectacle -textbooks, Cold Reading And How To Be Good At It and Acting and How To Be Good At it.
Hoffman is a widower, his wife died in 2006.