Dustin Hoffman: Talking Pictures

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A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen.

A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.

Dustin Hoffman

Simon Goretzki

Talking Pictures: Dustin Hoffman

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A look back at television appearances by one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, Dustin Hoffman.

Moments from interviews conducted on a range of BBC shows over the years help to tell the story of Dustin Hoffman, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, and his films.

When Dustin Hoffman first told his family he wanted to act, the response was: 'You can’t, you’re not good-looking enough.' Despite that initial response, Hoffman went on to become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, and here we look back on a career that started with the huge 1967 hit The Graduate and saw him winning Oscars for Kramer vs Kramer and Rain Man. 

Moments from interviews conducted on a range of BBC shows over the years help to tell the story of Dustin Hoffman and his films and to build a picture of the man who a director once described as 'one of a kind and he's not one character. There is no Dustin Hoffman. He is many, many people'.

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