Gordy Hoffman
Gordy Hoffman | |
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| Born | Gordon Richard Hoffman |
| Occupations | Screenwriter, director |
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Gordon Richard Hoffman is an American screenwriter and director. He is the older brother of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Biography
Early life
His mother, Marilyn O'Connor (née Loucks), a native of Waterloo, New York, is a family court judge and lawyer. His father, Gordon Stowell Hoffman, is a former Xerox executive.[1][2] He has two sisters, Jill and Emily, in addition to his late brother Philip. His parents divorced in 1976.[3]
Hoffman was raised in Fairport, New York. He attended the University of Kansas, graduating in 1987.[4]
After graduating, Hoffman lived in Chicago and Washington, D.C., where he pursued writing and directing in theater. He later moved to Los Angeles.[5]
Career
Theater
in 1994, Hoffman founded Company, an experimental theater workshop in California.[4]
Film
In 2002, he wrote the screenplay for the film Love Liza, about a man dealing with his wife's suicide.[6] The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw described it as a "very melancholy evening in the cinema ... an intelligent and harrowing movie,"[7] while Ed Gonzalez from Slant Magazine disparagingly wrote: "Love Liza will have a difficult time distinguishing itself from Alexander Payne's About Schmidt, another widower-in-chaos comedy starring [Kathy] Bates in an undervalued role. Love Liza is nowhere near as condescending but its shrill pitch makes it just as difficult to take."[8] The film received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
Hoffman is the founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition—for finding and fostering undiscovered writing talent. The winning screenplay from the 2005 competition, Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach, was purchased by Greenestreet Films, and was released in 2009.
He taught graduate screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.[9]
References
- ↑ "Philip Seymour Hoffman Biography (1967–)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
- ↑ Shaw, David L. (March 7, 2006). "Oscar-Winner's Mother Was Born in Waterloo". Syracuse Post Standard. p. 78. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
- ↑ "Yahoo". Movies.yahoo.com. Retrieved February 5, 2014.
- 1 2 "Love Liza Press Kit" (PDF). Sony Pictures Classics. Sony Pictures Classics. Retrieved August 20, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ independent, Susan King Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories She also wrote about; foreign; Movies, Studio; TV, occasionally; Orange, theater stories Born in East; N.J.; History, She Received Her Master’s Degree in Film; Examiner, criticism at USC She worked for 10 years at the L. A. Herald; in 2016, came to work at The Times in January 1990 She left (January 3, 2003). "A family project for the Hoffmans". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 21, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Bruce Weber (February 2, 2014). "Philip Seymour Hoffman, Actor of Depth, Dies at 46". The New York Times. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- ↑ Peter Bradshaw (2014). "Love Liza". The Guardian. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
- ↑ Ed Gonzalez (November 22, 2002). "Love Liza". Slant Magazine. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
- ↑ "Screenwriting Workshop with Gordy Hoffman | Dryden Theatre". Dryden.eastmanhouse.org. August 1, 2007. Archived from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved February 3, 2014.