Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Many Roles - Video. A. O. Scott on Philip Seymour Hoffman - Video. Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'He ennobled the 99%' – video | Film. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor of Depth, Dies at 46. Philip Seymour Hoffman, perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation, who gave three-dimensional nuance to a wide range of sidekicks, villains and leading men on screen and embraced some of the theater’s most burdensome roles on Broadway, died on Sunday at an apartment in Greenwich Village he was renting as an office.
He was 46. The death, from an apparent drug overdose, was confirmed by the police. Mr. Hoffman was found in the apartment by a friend who had become concerned after being unable to reach him. Investigators found a syringe in his arm and, nearby, an envelope containing what appeared to be heroin. Mr. “I saw him last week, and he was clean and sober, his old self,” said David Bar Katz, a playwright, and the friend who found Mr. Continue reading the main story Video A stocky, often sleepy-looking man with blond, generally uncombed hair who favored the rumpled clothes more associated with an out-of-work actor than a star, Mr. “Mr. Photo Mr. Mr. A. O. Scott on Philip Seymour Hoffman. Photo It was clear, at least since he won the Oscar in 2006 for “Capote,” that Philip Seymour Hoffman was an unusually fine actor. Really though, it was clear long before that, depending on when and where you started paying attention.
Maybe it was when he and John C. Reilly burned up the stage at the Circle in the Square in the 2000 revival of Sam Shepard’s “True West.” Or maybe it was even earlier, in the wrenching telephone scene in “Magnolia,” the disturbing telephone scenes in “Happiness,” the sad self-loathing of “Boogie Nights” or the smug self-possession of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” that brought the news of his special combination of talent, discipline and fearlessness.
Further evidence is not hard to find. Mr. We will be denied his Lear, his Prospero, his James Tyrone in another “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” What he did in “The Master,” his fifth film with the writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, was even grander. Continue reading the main story Video Mr.