Robert Hoffmann

Robert Hoffmann was born on Aug 30, 1939 in Austria. Robert Hoffmann's big-screen debut came with Angélique directed by Bernard Borderie in 1964, strarring Le chevalier de Lorraine. Robert Hoffmann is known for Le tiroir secret directed by Michel Boisrond, Michèle Morgan stars as Colette Lemarchand and Michael Lonsdale as Philippe Hartman. The upcoming new tvshow Robert Hoffmann plays is Le tiroir secret - Season 1 which will be released on Dec 05, 1986.

Handsome Austrian leading man Robert Hoffman spent three years studying drama at the Poule Vanneck academy in Paris. Already multi-lingual, he also learned how to ride and fence -- which proved useful as his career took off. He first came to fame as the titular star of Les aventures de Robinson Crusoë (1964), which was filmed in the Canary Islands by a French company and later dubbed into English. This seemed to have typecast Hoffman as globetrotting adventurers or rugged action heroes in European co-productions, ranging from Edgar Wallace-inspired potboilers (Neues vom Hexer (1965)) and crime melodramas (Le carnaval des truands (1967), Le tueur frappe trois fois (1968)) to giallo horror (Chassés-croisés sur une lame de rasoir (1973)) and peplum (Le dernier des Romains (1968)). A favorite especially among Italian and French audiences in the 60s, he starred alongside international players like Orson Welles, Laurence Harvey, Anita Ekberg and Claudia Cardinale. Hoffman's career suffered a severe setback in 1971 when he broke his leg in several places while jumping from a wall onto a horse during the filming of La vie sexuelle de Don Juan (1971). The quality of roles began to diminish, and, by the early 80's, Hoffman was reduced to making commercials and appearing in small supporting roles on television in shows like Rex, chien flic (1994), Tatort (1985) and even a couple of episodes of Dallas (1978). After having spent several years living in Rome and Madrid, Hoffman eventually returned to his home town of Salzburg where he died on July 4 2022 at the age of 82.