David Hoffman

David Hoffman

Born: February 2, 1904
Died: June 19, 1961
in Rusia

Movies for David Hoffman...

13 Ghosts
Title: 13 Ghosts
Character: Messenger (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property they have also inherited the occultist's collection of 13 ghosts.
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Tales of Frankenstein
Title: Tales of Frankenstein
Character: Inner Sanctum (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife…
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Diane
Title: Diane
Character: Court Painter (uncredited)
Released: January 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
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The Silver Chalice
Title: The Silver Chalice
Character: Spokesman (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1954
Type: Movie
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
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Woman's World
Title: Woman's World
Character: Jabernowski
Released: September 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
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Titanic
Title: Titanic
Character: Ship's Tailor (uncredited)
Released: April 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.
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Backfire
Title: Backfire
Character: Burns
Released: January 26, 1950
Type: Movie
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.
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The Creeper
Title: The Creeper
Character: Andre Dussaud
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Dr. Morgan and Dr. Cavigny star as a brace of scientists who return from the West Indies with a potent, phosphorescent serum that allegedly changes human beings into cats.
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Desire Me
Title: Desire Me
Character: Alex (the postman)
Released: October 31, 1947
Type: Movie
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
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The Beast with Five Fingers
Title: The Beast with Five Fingers
Character: Ingram's Attorney Duprex
Released: February 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
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A Night in Casablanca
Title: A Night in Casablanca
Character: Spy
Released: May 10, 1946
Type: Movie
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
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The Mask of Dimitrios
Title: The Mask of Dimitrios
Character: Konrad
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
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Weird Woman
Title: Weird Woman
Character: The Spirit of the Inner Sanctum (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1944
Type: Movie
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
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Calling Dr. Death
Title: Calling Dr. Death
Released: December 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Mr. Radek (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Title: The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Character: John O. Blenker [Chs. 9-11]
Released: January 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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Danger in the Pacific
Title: Danger in the Pacific
Character: Storekeeper
Released: June 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Scientist-explorer David Lynd leaves wealthy bride-to-be June Claymore at the altar to join photographer Andy Parker and British secret service agent Leo Marzeli in search of rare minerals. They soon run afoul of crooked trader Tagani, who's been busily stockpiling weapons in the hills on behalf of his Nazi partners.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Willi
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.