Philip Seymour Hoffman obit

He was way to young to be on the list.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Oscar-winning actor, found dead in NY apartment

He was not on the list.

Philip Seymour Hoffman, the stage and screen actor who progressed from scene-stealing supporting roles to an Oscar-winning portrayal of writer Truman Capote in “Capote,” has died. He was 46.
Mr. Hoffman was found dead in his apartment in Lower Manhattan shortly before noon Sunday, and his death is being investigated as a possible drug overdose, said Detective James Duffy, a spokesman for the New York Police Department. The New York City medical examiner’s office is expected to perform an autopsy as early as Monday, and that examination will include a toxicology report.

Police said they received a 911 call about 11:36 a.m. Sunday. When they arrived at the apartment, they found Mr. Hoffman unconscious and unresponsive on the floor of a bathroom. According to an unnamed police official who was not authorized to comment publicly, Mr. Hoffman was found with a needle in his arm and several bags of what appeared to be heroin. The official said Mr. Hoffman was supposed to meet a colleague Sunday morning and did not show. An associate went to his home and found him there. Police were still at the scene Sunday afternoon.

In interviews, Mr. Hoffman acknowledged a history of drug abuse.

“I got sober when I was 22 years old” and went into a drug rehabilitation program at the time, Mr. Hoffman told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in 2006. Asked whether he abused drugs or alcohol, Mr. Hoffman said: “It was all that stuff. Yeah. It was anything I could get my hands on. Yeah. I liked it all.”
Mr. Hoffman went on to say in the interview: “I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they’re beautiful and famous and rich,” Hoffman said. “I’m like, ‘Oh my God. I’d be dead.’ You know what I mean? I’d be 19, beautiful, famous and rich. That would be it. I think back at that time. I think if I had the money, that kind of money and stuff. So, yeah [I would have died].”
In other interviews, he indicated that he had remained clean for more than two decades before relapsing in 2012, when he again entered a drug rehabilitation program, according to published reports.
Mr. Hoffman, who specialized in off-kilter roles, won the best-actor Oscar for his 2005 portrayal of Capote in the biographical film that chronicled the writer’s research — and ethical transgressions — for the nonfiction crime novel “In Cold Blood.”

It was one of four performances that earned Mr. Hoffman an Oscar nomination. He was nominated for best supporting actor three times: for playing a CIA agent in “Charlie Wilson’s War,” an abusive priest in “Doubt” and Lancaster Dodd, a character loosely based on Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, in “The Master.”

His work in “The Master,” released in 2012, was for director Paul Thomas Anderson. In total, the actor appeared in five Anderson films — all but one of the director’s six feature-length films.
“He was an extraordinary actor with tremendous range and the gift of fully and deeply realizing his amazing characters in films from ‘Magnolia’ and ‘Capote’ to ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ and ‘Doubt,’ ” said Ken Howard, president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. “He was such a great talent and his loss is just deeply sad. On behalf of his fellow actors and all members of SAG-AFTRA, our condolences go out to his family and friends.”

Mr. Hoffman got his start in Hollywood playing supporting roles in several movies in the 1990s, including “Twister,” “Patch Adams” and “Magnolia.” His breakthrough roles came as a gay member of a porn film crew in Anderson’s “Boogie Nights” and as an obscene phone caller in director Todd Solondz’s “Happiness.”

Most recently, Mr. Hoffman played Plutarch Heavensbee in the “Hunger Games” movies and appeared at the Sundance Film Festival last month to talk about his role in the film “God’s Pocket,” slated for release later this year.

In many of his performances, Hoffman’s characters bordered on either the manic or depressive, but he brought a depth and intellectual honesty to each of them beyond the lines of the script.

His filmography

Film

Year       Title       Role       Director                Notes

1991      Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole Klutch   Amos Poe           

1992      My New Gun      Chris      Stacy Cochran   

1992      Szuler (Cheat)    Martin Adek Drabiński

1992      Leap of Faith      Matt      Richard Pearce

1992      Scent of a Woman           George Willis, Jr.               Martin Brest       Credited as Philip S. Hoffman

1993      Joey Breaker      Wiley McCall      Steven Starr       

1993      My Boyfriend's Back        Chuck Bronski    Bob Balaban      

1993      Money for Nothing          Cochran               Ramón Menéndez          

1994      The Getaway     Frank Hansen     Roger Donaldson             

1994      When a Man Loves a Woman      Gary       Luis Mandoki    

1994      Nobody's Fool    Officer Raymer Robert Benton  

1995      The Fifteen Minute Hamlet          Bernardo / Horatio / Laertes                       Short

1996      Hard Eight           Young Craps Player          Paul Thomas Anderson

1996      Twister Dustin "Dusty" Davis       Jan de Bont        

1997      Boogie Nights    Scotty J.                Paul Thomas Anderson

1998      Culture Bill                          Short

1998      Montana              Duncan                 Jennifer Leitzes

1998      Next Stop Wonderland Sean      Brad Anderson

1998      The Big Lebowski              Brandt Joel Coen            

1998      Happiness           Allen      Todd Solondz    

1998      Patch Adams      Mitch Roman     Tom Shadyac     

1999      Flawless               Rusty Zimmerman            Joel Schumacher              

1999      Magnolia             Phil Parma           Paul Thomas Anderson

1999      The Talented Mr. Ripley                Freddie Miles     Anthony Minghella         

2000      State and Main Joseph Turner White      David Mamet    

2000      Almost Famous Lester Bangs       Cameron Crowe               

2001      The Party's Over               Himself                 Rebecca Chalkin & Donovan Leitch           Documentary

2002      Love Liza              Wilson Joel         Todd Louiso       

2002      Punch-Drunk Love           Dean Trumbell   Paul Thomas Anderson

2002      Red Dragon         Freddy Lounds   Brett Ratner      

2002      25th Hour            Jacob Elinsky      Spike Lee            

2003      Owning Mahowny           Dan Mahowny   Richard Kwietniowski    

2003      Cold Mountain Reverend Veasey             Anthony Minghella         

2004      Along Came Polly             Sandford "Sandy" Lyle    John Hamburg  

2005      Strangers with Candy      Henry    Paul Dinello       

2005      Capote Truman Capote Bennett Miller  

2006      Mission: Impossible III    Owen Davian     J. J. Abrams        

2007      The Savages       Jon Savage          Tamara Jenkins

2007      Before the Devil Knows You're Dead        Andy Hanson      Sidney Lumet    

2007      Charlie Wilson's War       Gust Avrakotos Mike Nichols     

2008      Synecdoche, New York Caden Cotard     Charlie Kaufman              

2008      Doubt    Father Brendan Flynn     John Patrick Shanley      

2009      Mary and Max   Max Jerry Horowitz         Adam Elliot         Voice

2009      The Boat That Rocked    The Count           Richard Curtis    

2009      The Invention of Lying    Jim the Bartender            Ricky Gervais & Matthew Robinson          Cameo

2010      Jack Goes Boating            Jack        Philip Seymour Hoffman               Also director and executive producer

2011      The Ides of March            Paul Zara              George Clooney               

2011      Moneyball           Art Howe             Bennett Miller  

2012      The Master         Lancaster Dodd                 Paul Thomas Anderson

2012      A Late Quartet   Robert Gelbart Yaron Zilberman              

2013      The Hunger Games: Catching Fire              Plutarch Heavensbee     Francis Lawrence             

2014      God's Pocket      Mickey Scarpato               John Slattery      Also producer

2014      A Most Wanted Man      Günther Bachmann         Anton Corbijn   

2014      The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1                Plutarch Heavensbee     Francis Lawrence              Posthumous release

2015      The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2                Francis Lawrence              Posthumous release

Television

Year       Title       Role       Notes

1991      Law & Order       Steven Hanauer                Episode: "The Violence of Summer"

Credited as Philip Hoffman

1994      The Yearling       Buck      TV movie

1997      Liberty!                Joseph Plumb Martin      Voice

4 episodes

2005      Empire Falls        Charlie Mayne   2 episodes

2009      Arthur   Will Toffman      Voice

Episode: "No Acting Please"

2014      Happyish              Thom Payne       Unaired pilot