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June 8, 2008

Dustin Hoffman is famous for showing up in the most unlikely roles, including as a character who ages on screen from teenager-hood to being a 121-year-old yarn-spinning former scout for General George Armstrong Custer - to voicing a red-panda kung fu master. A sampling:

"Kung Fu Panda" (2008) Shifu (voice)

"Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium" (2007) Mr. Edward Magorium

"Stranger Than Fiction" (2006) Professor Jules Hilbert

"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" (2006) Giuseppe Baldini

"The Lost City" (2005) Meyer Lansky

"Racing Stripes" (2005) Tucker (Voice)

"Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (2004) The Critic

"Meet the Fockers" (2004) Bernie Focker

"I Heart Huckabees" (2004) Bernard

"Finding Neverland" (above, 2004) Charles Frohman

"Runaway Jury" (2003) Wendell Rohr

"Confidence" (2003) Winston King

"Moonlight Mile" (2002) Ben Floss

"The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc" (1999) The Conscience

"Sphere" (1998) Dr. Norman Goodman

"Wag the Dog" (1997) Stanley Motss

"Mad City" (1997) Max Brackett

"Sleepers" (1996) Danny Snyder

"American Buffalo" (1996) Walt "Teach" Teacher

"Outbreak" (1995) Colonel Sam Daniels

"Hero" (1992) Bernie Laplante

"Hook" (1991) Captain Hook

"Billy Bathgate" (1991) Dutch Schultz

"Dick Tracy" (1990) Mumbles

"Family Business" (1989) Vito McMullen

"Rain Man" (above, 1988) Raymond Babbitt

"Ishtar" (1987) Chuck Clarke

"Tootsie" (1982) Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels

"Kramer vs. Kramer" (above, 1979) Ted Kramer

"Agatha" (1979) Wally Stanton

"Straight Time" (1978) Max Dembo

"Marathon Man" (1976) Thomas "Babe" Levy

"All the President's Men" (1976) Carl Bernstein

"Lenny" (1974) Lenny Bruce

"Papillon" (1973) Louis Dega

"Alfredo, Alfredo" (1972) Alfredo Sbisà

"Straw Dogs" (1971) David Sumner

"Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?" (1971) Georgie Soloway

"Little Big Man" (above, 1970) Jack Crabb

"John and Mary" (1969) John

"Midnight Cowboy" (1969) Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo

"Sunday Father" (1969) A "Sunday Father"

"The Graduate" (1967) Benjamin Braddock

"The Tiger Makes Out" (1967) Hap

SOURCE: IMDb

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