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From a tornado chaser in Twister and a gay porn PA in Boogie Nights to a legendary music critic in Almost Famous and Truman Capote himself, the actor — who died at age 46 on Sunday — had done it all.
Law & Order (1991)
Hoffman’s very first on-screen role was as an accused rapist on the first season of NBC’s Law & Order. (Spoiler alert: He did it.) The part is actually pretty small — Samuel L. Jackson plays his lawyer — but his brief scenes make a strong impression. Even this early in his career, Hoffman could hold our attention by doing very little.
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Scent of a Woman (1992)
Another small role, this time as a well-off prep school student who informs on a school prank after Chris O’Donnell’s poorer student refuses to rat out his schoolmates. Yet again, Hoffman is called upon to play a deeply flawed character whose self-interest trumps all, and he communicates volumes with very little material to go on.
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Twister (1996)
One of Hoffman’s last “small” roles was as a fun-loving tornado chaser in director Jan de Bont’s thriller. This time, Hoffman’s buoyant good cheer proved to be one of the film’s most reliable sources of comic relief. (That, and the flying cow.)
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Boogie Nights (1997)
Hoffman’s breakout role as a gay porn movie PA showed just what he could do when he was handed a role with genuine substance. The scene where he futilely tried to woo Mark Wahlberg’s Dirk Diggler by first showing off a new red sports car and then diving in for a kiss was heartbreaking, but Hoffman never pushed to win over our sympathy. He knew he didn’t need to.
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