Otto Hoffman
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Otto Hoffman was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Hoffman started his acting career landing roles in such films as "Homer Comes Home" (1920), "Just Out of College" (1921) and "A Dangerous Game" (1922). He also appeared in the Hoot Gibson western "Trimmed" (1922), "Broadway After Dark" (1924) and the Rudolph Valentino adventure "The Eagle" (1925). He kept working in f...
Biography
Otto Hoffman was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Hoffman started his acting career landing roles in such films as "Homer Comes Home" (1920), "Just Out of College" (1921) and "A Dangerous Game" (1922). He also appeared in the Hoot Gibson western "Trimmed" (1922), "Broadway After Dark" (1924) and the Rudolph Valentino adventure "The Eagle" (1925). He kept working in film throughout the twenties, starring in "On With the Show" (1929), "Acquitted" (1929) and "The Desert Song" (1929). He also appeared in the Dolores Costello period drama "Noah's Ark" (1929). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in the Buck Jones western "Hello, Trouble" (1932), "The Cheyenne Kid" (1933) and "The Iron Master" (1933). He also appeared in the musical comedy "Kid Millions" (1934) with Eddie Cantor and "Murder at the Vanities" (1934). Hoffman more recently acted in the crime picture "Stranger on the Third Floor" (1940) with Peter Lorre. Hoffman passed away in June 1944 at the age of 65.
Filmography
Director (Feature Film)
The Secret of Black Mountain
(1917)
Director
Cast (Feature Film)
One More Tomorrow
(1946)
Station master
This Is the Life
(1944)
Oscar
The Human Comedy
(1943)
Scowling man
This Land Is Mine
(1943)
Printer
Sagebrush Law
(1943)
Doc Crandall
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
(1942)
Printer
Red River Robin Hood
(1942)
Sam Sterling
The Mad Martindales
(1942)
Pawnbroker
The Ghost of Frankenstein
(1942)
Villager
The Mummy's Tomb
(1942)
Caretaker
Born to Sing
(1942)
Stage doorman
The Postman Didn't Ring
(1942)
Jeff Oglethorpe
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
(1942)
Assessor
Ball of Fire
(1942)
Stage door man
I Married an Angel
(1942)
Mr. Flit
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
(1941)
Photographer
The Blue Bird
(1940)
Crab apple tree
Stranger on the Third Floor
(1940)
Police surgeon
Lucky Cisco Kid
(1940)
Storekeeper [Ed Stoke]
Lucky Partners
(1940)
Clerk
Foreign Correspondent
(1940)
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
(1940)
Poultaney
When Tomorrow Comes
(1939)
Farmer
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1939)
First judge
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
(1939)
Mayor
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
(1939)
Pawnbroker
Our Leading Citizen
(1939)
Stony
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
(1939)
Station agent
The Lady and the Mob
(1939)
Higgins
Inside Story
(1939)
Homer Grubb
The Girl Downstairs
(1938)
Photographer
The Jury's Secret
(1938)
Old man
Mr. Boggs Steps Out
(1938)
Jenkins
One Wild Night
(1938)
Railroad conductor
Romance in the Dark
(1938)
Stage doorman
Time Out for Murder
(1938)
Clockmaker
The Road Back
(1937)
Old man
The Toast of New York
(1937)
Member of board of directors
Girl Loves Boy
(1937)
Gus Wilkey
Hideaway
(1937)
Hank
Living on Love
(1937)
Alex
The Man in Blue
(1937)
Bensinger
All over Town
(1937)
Pete Phillips
The Last Train from Madrid
(1937)
Fernando
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
(1937)
Gardener
Midnight Taxi
(1937)
Tailor
Magnificent Obsession
(1936)
Gardener
Wedding Present
(1936)
Printer
The Story of Louis Pasteur
(1936)
Farmer
Career Woman
(1936)
Frank Jackson
Pepper
(1936)
Gardener
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
(1936)
Jury foreman
The Crime of Dr. Forbes
(1936)
Editor
Captain Hurricane
(1935)
Silas Coffin
Fighting Shadows
(1935)
Stalkey
Barbary Coast
(1935)
Peebles
Show Them No Mercy!
(1935)
Hick
Smart Girl
(1935)
Wilson
The Great Hotel Murder
(1935)
Station agent
Mad Love
(1935)
Blind man
Ginger
(1935)
Pawnbroker
Death Takes a Holiday
(1934)
Fedele
Marrying Widows
(1934)
Kid Millions
(1934)
Khoot
Murder at the Vanities
(1934)
Walsh
Back Page
(1934)
The Lawyer
Behold My Wife!
(1934)
Minister
Beloved
(1934)
Mr. Dietrick
The Painted Veil
(1934)
Husband
Only Yesterday
(1933)
The Cheyenne Kid
(1933)
Cal Winters
A Man of Sentiment
(1933)
Iron Master
(1932)
Grange
The County Fair
(1932)
"Specs" Matthews
Downstairs
(1932)
Otto
Haunted Gold
(1932)
Simon
Hello Trouble
(1932)
Calvin Sharp
Two Seconds
(1932)
Justice of Peace
The Criminal Code
(1931)
Jim Fales
Captain Applejack
(1931)
Mr. Pengard
The Avenger
(1931)
Black Kelly
Side Show
(1931)
Otto Gribble
Young As You Feel
(1931)
Secretary
Cimarron
(1931)
Murch Rankin
The Other Tomorrow
(1930)
Ted Journet
Sinner's Holiday
(1930)
George
Abraham Lincoln
(1930)
Offut
Kismet
(1930)
Azaf
Hardboiled Rose
(1929)
Apyton Hale
The Hottentot
(1929)
Perkins
The Desert Song
(1929)
Hasse
Acquitted
(1929)
Smith
Is Everybody Happy?
(1929)
Landlord
The Madonna of Avenue A
(1929)
Monk
Noah's Ark
(1929)
Trader
On With the Show
(1929)
Bert
The Fourflusher
(1928)
Mr. Riggs
The Terror
(1928)
Soapy Marks
The Grain of Dust
(1928)
Chief clerk
Rinty of the Desert
(1928)
Pop Marlow
Beware of Widows
(1927)
Mr. Warren
The Stolen Bride
(1927)
Papa Pless
The Siren
(1927)
Fleet
Painted Ponies
(1927)
Jim
Millionaires
(1926)
Detective
The Boy Friend
(1926)
Mr. Harper
More Pay - Less Work
(1926)
Confessions of a Queen
(1925)
King's valet
Bobbed Hair
(1925)
McTish
The Eagle
(1925)
Satan in Sables
(1925)
Sergius
The Circle
(1925)
Dorker
The Dixie Handicap
(1925)
The Major
Secrets of the Night
(1925)
The coroner
This Woman
(1924)
Judson
Daddies
(1924)
Parker
The Gaiety Girl
(1924)
Evan Evans
The Price She Paid
(1924)
Seth Kehr
High Speed
(1924)
Daniel Holbrook
Broadway After Dark
(1924)
Norton's valet
Human Wreckage
(1923)
Harris
Lucretia Lombard
(1923)
Sandy, Lombard's servant
Strangers of the Night
(1923)
Horace Pengard
Double Dealing
(1923)
Uriah Jobson
One Stolen Night
(1923)
Horace Ebberly
The Sin Flood
(1922)
Higgins
The Bootlegger's Daughter
(1922)
The Deacon
Boy Crazy
(1922)
Mr. Skinner
Pardon My Nerve
(1922)
Luke Tweezy
The Glorious Fool
(1922)
Dummy
Trimmed
(1922)
Nebo Slayter
Ridin' Wild
(1922)
Andrew McBride
Gas, Oil and Water
(1922)
Henry Jones
Confidence
(1922)
Josiah Wiggins
A Dangerous Game
(1922)
Uncle Stillson Peebles
The Five Dollar Baby
(1922)
The Solitary Kid
Very Truly Yours
(1922)
Jim Watson
The New Teacher
(1922)
Joseph Hurley
Bunty Pulls the Strings
(1921)
Beadle
The Devil Within
(1921)
Ezra
The Bronze Bell
(1921)
La Bertouche
Who Am I?
(1921)
William Zoltz
Passing Thru
(1921)
James Spivins
Whatever She Wants
(1921)
Amos Lott
Paris Green
(1920)
Andre Robinet
Silk Hosiery
(1920)
Von Twiller
The Great Accident
(1920)
V. R. Kite
The Jailbird
(1920)
Elkemah Pardee
It's a Great Life
(1920)
Professor Mozier
Just Out of College
(1920)
Professor Bliss
Homer Comes Home
(1920)
Silas Prouty
Behind the Door
(1919)
Mark Arnold
Greased Lightning
(1919)
Rufus Shadd
The Haunted Bedroom
(1919)
Managing editor
The Sheriff's Son
(1919)
Jess Tighe
The Egg Crate Wallop
(1919)
"Spider" Blake
The Busher
(1919)
Deacon Nasby
Crooked Straight
(1919)
Lucius Owen
The City of Comrades
(1919)
"Lovey"
String Beans
(1918)
Joe Farley
The Family Skeleton
(1918)
Billy's valet
The Kaiser's Shadow, or the Triple Cross
(1918)
Frederick Fischer
A Nine O'Clock Town
(1918)
John Clary
His Own Home Town
(1918)
Tivotson
The Kaiser's Shadow
(1918)
The White Terror
(1915)
Mayor Alrich
Cast (Short)
My Grandfather's Clock
(1934)
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