Philip Seymour Hoffman dead after apparent drug overdose: cops

New York Post ^ | February 2, 2014 | Larry Celona and Bruce Golding

[DeFault User]

It wasn’t long ago that an article appeared on FR describing how he had just completed rehab and was recovering well. Sad.

What a fantastic performance in Capote.

[tflabo]

Fame, fortune and addictions don’t mix well. Seems all too common and add another case in point to the long list.

[yarddog]

The name meant nothing to me.

The face is vaguely familiar.

[FrdmLvr]

My brother-in-law’s first and last name was the same (minus Hoffman). He passed away a couple of months ago from cancer. Just a little odd and unsettling.

[Liberty Valance]

Rest in peace Gust.

[liberalh8ter]

What’s weird about his death is that he was the victim of the dreaded Internet death hoax last week! When I herd this today, I kept searching to see if this was really true. RIP PSH.

[John W]

The hoax happened earlier in the week.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Where do you get that? I’m saying theres a ton of examples of people dying from drug abuse so why do these idiots keep doing it? How many examples do they need? This guy is doing heroin, how many examples are there of people dying from heroin? 1000s? Millions? Yet he still does it.

Anyway, now they are saying it’s all a hoax

http://en.mediamass.net/people/philip-seymour-hoffman/deathhoax.html

[bonfire]

Oh no! He was one of my favorite actors. Damn.

[JRandomFreeper]

That's the reason I asked a question. I had no clue what point you were trying to make. ;)

And to answer your question about why people do it, even with all the negative examples.... it's an imperfect world, and people are irrational.

/johnny

[JudyinCanada]

I don’t know who he is, but it’s very sad. Poor man, caught in the darkness of drug addiction.

[crusher]

I’ve heard of him but from the list of movies have never seen him. The extent of my knowledge about him was indirect, through a report that a tongue-tied Serena Williams referred to him as “Phillip Semen Hoffmore.”

[Henchster]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (filming)
Plutarch Heavensbee

2014 Happyish (TV Series) (post-production)
Thom Payne

2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (post-production)
Plutarch Heavensbee

2014 A Most Wanted Man
Günther Bachmann

2014 God's Pocket

2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Plutarch Heavensbee

2012 Back Beyond (Video short)
Lancaster Dodd

2012 A Late Quartet
Robert Gelbart

2012 The Master
Lancaster Dodd

2011 Moneyball
Art Howe

2011 The Ides of March
Paul Zara

2011 A Child's Garden of Poetry (TV Movie) (voice)

2010 Jack Goes Boating
Jack

2009 Arthur (TV Series)
Will Toffman

- No Acting Please/Prunella Deegan and the Disappointing Ending (2009
Will Toffman (voice)

2009 The Invention of Lying
Jim the Bartender

2009 Pirate Radio
The Count

2009 Mary and Max
Max Jerry Horovitz (voice)

2008/I Doubt
Father Brendan Flynn

2008 Synecdoche, New York
Caden Cotard

2007 Charlie Wilson's War
Gust Avrakotos

2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Andy

2007 The Savages
Jon Savage

2006 Mission: Impossible III
Owen Davian

2005 Capote
Truman Capote

2005 Empire Falls (TV Movie)
Charlie Mayne

2005 Strangers with Candy
Henry

2004 Along Came Polly
Sandy Lyle

2003 Cold Mountain
Reverend Veasey

2003 Mattress Man Commercial (Video short)
Dean Trumbell

2003 Owning Mahowny
Dan Mahowny

2002 25th Hour
Jacob Elinsky

2002 Red Dragon
Freddy Lounds

2002 Punch-Drunk Love
Dean Trumbell

2002 Love Liza
Wilson Joel

2000 Almost Famous
Lester Bangs

2000 State and Main
Joseph Turner White

1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley
Freddie Miles

1999 Magnolia
Phil Parma

1999 Flawless
Rusty

1998 Patch Adams
Mitch

1998 Happiness
Allen

1998 The Big Lebowski
Brandt

1998 Next Stop Wonderland
Sean

1998 Montana
Duncan

1997 Liberty! The American Revolution (TV Mini-Series)
Joseph Plumb Martin

- The Times That Try Men's Souls: 1776-1777 (1997) ...
Joseph Plumb Martin

- Oh, Fatal Ambition: 1777-1778 (1997)
Joseph Plumb Martin

- The Reluctant Revolutionaries: 1763-1774 (1997)
Joseph Plumb Martin

- Blows Must Decide: 1774-1776 (1997)
Joseph Plumb Martin

1997 Culture (Short)
Bill

1997 Boogie Nights
Scotty J.

1996 Twister
Dustin Davis

1996 Hard Eight
Young Craps Player (as Phillip Seymour Hoffman)

1995 The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (Short)
Bernardo / Horatio / Laertes (as Philip S. Hoffman)

1994 Nobody's Fool
Officer Raymer

1994 When a Man Loves a Woman
Gary

1994 The Yearling (TV Movie)
Buck

1994 Szuler
Martin

1994 The Getaway
Frank Hansen (as Philip Hoffman)

1993 Money for Nothing
Cochran (as Philip S. Hoffman)

1993 My Boyfriend's Back
Chuck Bronski (as Philip Hoffman)

1993 Joey Breaker
Wiley McCall

1992 Scent of a Woman
George Willis, Jr. (as Philip S. Hoffman)

1992 Leap of Faith
Matt

1992 My New Gun
Chris

1991 Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole
Klutch (as Phil Hoffman)

1991 Law & Order (TV Series)
Steven Hanauer

- The Violence of Summer (1991)
Steven Hanauer (as Philip Hoffman)

[traderrob6]

Played obnoxious weasel friend in “Scent of a Women”.

[Yaelle]

I wonder why the hoax. Did he nearly die from the same thing?

RIP to a genius actor. I’m sorry for your demons. I look forward to seeing more of your work (the films I haven’t seen).

[VideoDoctor]

They are saying it’s a hoax

Maybe he has a Publicist with a jaded sense of promotional humor.

[momtothree]

It looks like his publicist said he was alive on Saturday (February 1st). He was found on Sunday (Feb 2nd). So, 24 hours after the rumor he really did die? Not that it is as credible as any other source, but Yahoo news is reporting his death.

[KC Burke]

The latest has him getting married this weekend,.

[gattaca]

Love that scene where Al Pacino “Frank” defends Charlie in court.

[EveningStar]

Here’s another thread.