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A naive college graduate, hailed as a genius by his overbearing parents, is seduced by the middle-aged wife of his father's business partner - but later falls in love with her daughter. Oscar-winning comedy drama, starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross, with a soundtrack by Simon and Garfunkel
1967
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Comedy
General
Indie
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Dustin Hoffman
(Actor)
.. Benjamin Braddock
Anne Bancroft
(Actor)
.. Mrs Robinson
Katharine Ross
(Actor)
.. Elaine Robinson
William Daniels
(Actor)
.. Mr Braddock
Murray Hamilton
(Actor)
.. Mr Robinson
Elizabeth Wilson
(Actor)
.. Mrs Braddock
Brian Avery
(Actor)
.. Carl Smith
Walter Brooke
(Actor)
.. Mr McGuire
Mike Nichols
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Dustin Hoffman
(Actor)
.. Benjamin Braddock
Born:
August 08, 1937
in
Los Angeles
Best Known For:
Tackling difficult roles.
Early-life:
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles on August 8, 1937, the son of a furniture salesman and an amateur actress. He was named after silent-movie star Dustin Farnham and has an older brother, Ronald. He trained to be a doctor and a pianist, but preferred studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. He and classmate Gene Hackman were voted least likely to succeed. He shared an apartment with Hackman and later with Robert Duvall, and studied at the famous Actors Studio in New York.
Career:
Hoffman spent 10 years trying to get decent roles, making ends meet by teaching and appearing in commercials and TV series. In 1967 he landed the lead role in The Graduate which made him a star and secured his first Oscar nomination. He gained further nods from the Academy for Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Tootsie and Wag the Dog, and has won twice for Kramer vs Kramer and Rain Man. Other notable films include Straw Dogs, Little Big Man, Sleepers, Runaway Jury, Finding Neverland, I Heart Huckabees, Meet the Fockers and Stranger Than Fiction. More recent projects include Last Chance Harvey, Little Fockers, the short-lived TV series Luck and Esio Trot. He also directed the BBC-backed film Quartet.
Quote:
'I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm ageing so well.'
Trivia:
Hoffman is a huge fan of the Archie series of comics, and owns a copy of every issue ever published.
Anne Bancroft
(Actor)
.. Mrs Robinson
Katharine Ross
(Actor)
.. Elaine Robinson
William Daniels
(Actor)
.. Mr Braddock
Murray Hamilton
(Actor)
.. Mr Robinson
Elizabeth Wilson
(Actor)
.. Mrs Braddock
Brian Avery
(Actor)
.. Carl Smith
Walter Brooke
(Actor)
.. Mr McGuire
Mike Nichols
(Director)
Born:
November 06, 1931
in
Berlin
Best Known For:
Directing The Graduate (1967).
Early-life:
Born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin on November 6, 1931 to Brigitte and Paul. In 1938, when the Nazis were arresting Jews in Berlin, seven-year-old Michael and his three-year-old brother Robert travelled to the United States, where they met up with their father, who had fled months earlier. His mother made it to America in 1940 after escaping through Italy. His father changed the family name to Nichols and set up a medical practice in Manhattan. Mike became an American citizen in 1944. While attending the University of Chicago in the 1950s, he made his theatrical debut as a director. In 1954, after dropping out of university, he moved back to New York and was accepted into the Actors Studio.
Career:
Nichols went on to form a successful comedy stage act with Elaine May. They released best-selling records, made guest appearances on TV and radio and performed on Broadway with An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. They went their separate ways in 1961 to pursue other projects, although May would later write the scripts for the Nichols-directed films The Birdcage (1996) and Primary Colors (1998). Nichols went on to forge a hugely successful career as a theatre and film director. His film credits included Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The Graduate (1967), Catch-22 (1960), Silkwood (1983), Heartburn (1986), Biloxi Blues (1988), Working Girl (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Closer (2004) and Charlie Wilson's War (2007). He died on November 19, 2014, at the age of 83.
Quote:
'There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.'
Trivia:
He won a Best Director Academy Award for The Graduate, and picked up a number of Tony Awards.
