Dustin Lee Hoffman is a actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since
1960. Hoffman began his acting career in the Pasadena Playhouse. He got the
favorable attention of critics for the 1966 Off-Broadway play Eh? for which he
won a Theater World Award and a Drama Desk Award. Hoffman’s first film break
role was The Graduate in 1967. Other movies that followed included Midnight
Cowboy (1969), All The Presidents Men and Marathon Man both in 1976. He 
has won two Academy Awards, one for his role in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), 
and the other for his performance in Rain Man (1988). He is also received 
five Golden Globes, three BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards’, a Genie 
Award and an Emmy Award. Dustin Hoffman also received the AFI Life
Achievement Award in 1999.

Dustin Hoffman with Anne Bancroft in a scene from The Graduate

Hoffman with costar Tom Cruse

Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982)

Former Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa disappeared at, or sometime after,
2:45 pm on July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox Restaurant
in Bloomfield Township, a suburb of Detroit. He reportedly was to meet there with
two Mafia leaders. Hoffa’s wife contacted police to report him missing when he
failed to return home that evening. When police arrived at the restaurant, they
discovered Hoffa’s car, but there was no sign of Hoffa himself.

An extensive investigation into his disappearance by several law enforcement
agency’s, including the FBI, began immediately, and continued over the next
several years. The investigations failed to learn anything of Hoffa’s fate and
he was declared legally dead in 1982, the seventh anniversary of his
disappearance.

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                (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974)

Walter Brennan won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor three
times and is tied with Jack Nicholson for the most Academy Award wins for
a male actor. Film historians and critics have long regarded Brennan as
one of the finest character actors in motion picture history. Brennan is
best remembered From 1957-1963, when he starred in the ABC-TV
series The Real McCoys, which costarred Richard Crenna and Kathleen
Nolan. The series ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962 before switching to CBS
for a final season as The McCoys.

Released in March 1962, "Old Rivers",featuring The Johnny Mann Singers 
as the backing choir over Brennan’s recitation of the refrain, became a top
5 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot C&W Sides charts by the end
of May. 

Actress Louise Fletcher is best known for her role as Nurse Ratched in the 1975
film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest for which she won the Academy Award for
Best Actress. The film is #20 on the AFI 100 years…100 Movies list. It was shot at
Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Oregon, which was the setting of the novel. Louise
also portrayed Kai Winn Adami in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999). She
also guest starred on the science fiction NBC television series Heroes. Fletcher
received Emmy nominations for her guest starring roles in Picket Fences on
CBS (1992-1996).

Robin Williams at 16

Robin McLaurim Williams actor and comedian rose to fame with his role
as the alien Mork in the ABC- TV sitcom series Mork and Mindy (1978-
1982), and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many
feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor for his role in the 1997 Gus Van Sant film Good Will Hunting. He has
also won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild
Awards and five Grammy Awards. Williams performance in Good Morning
Vietnam (1987) was nominated for an Academy Award.  
 

Robin Williams with co-star Pam Dawber

Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire, 1993