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Basil Hoffman is an American actor who has been described by the Los Angeles Times as, "the incomparable character actor," and of whom Academy Award winning director Robert Redford, who has worked with him four times, has written, "It is a wonderful feeling to trust an actor so completely."
Basil Hoffman's citations in "Who's Who in America," "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies" and on the World Wide Web, most especially on the Internet Movie Data Base, offer a rough outline of his work. A purpose of this Web site is to present, as concisely as possible, some greater detail, biographical and in selected film clips.
As an actor who also teaches acting, he has coached and taught privately for more than twenty years, and, when his schedule permits, has been a teacher and lecturer in prestigious academic and professional institutions in New York, California, New Mexico and Louisiana, and internationally in Canada and Lebanon.
In 2008, he returned to Beirut as U.S. State Department Cultural Envoy to Lebanon.
His acting textbooks, ACTING AND HOW TO BE GOOD AT IT with a foreword by Sydney Pollack (and the new ACTING AND HOW TO BE GOOD AT IT: THE SECOND EDITION with a foreword by Sydney Pollack) and COLD READING AND HOW TO BE GOOD AT IT (in its fifth printing), have now found worldwide audiences.
Basil Hoffman may be reached through the CONTACT and LINKS designations on this home page. LINKS also provides access to additional professional and news sources, as well as detailed information about the acting textbooks.
Basil Hoffman's citations in "Who's Who in America," "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies" and on the World Wide Web, most especially on the Internet Movie Data Base, offer a rough outline of his work. A purpose of this Web site is to present, as concisely as possible, some greater detail, biographical and in selected film clips.
As an actor who also teaches acting, he has coached and taught privately for more than twenty years, and, when his schedule permits, has been a teacher and lecturer in prestigious academic and professional institutions in New York, California, New Mexico and Louisiana, and internationally in Canada and Lebanon.
In 2008, he returned to Beirut as U.S. State Department Cultural Envoy to Lebanon.
His acting textbooks, ACTING AND HOW TO BE GOOD AT IT with a foreword by Sydney Pollack (and the new ACTING AND HOW TO BE GOOD AT IT: THE SECOND EDITION with a foreword by Sydney Pollack) and COLD READING AND HOW TO BE GOOD AT IT (in its fifth printing), have now found worldwide audiences.
Basil Hoffman may be reached through the CONTACT and LINKS designations on this home page. LINKS also provides access to additional professional and news sources, as well as detailed information about the acting textbooks.