Philip Seymour Hoffman Obituary
Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor, director, and producer. He was prolific in both film and theater from the early 1990s until his death in 2014 at the age of 46, after which The New York Times declared him ’perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation’.