Basil Hoffman (born January 18, 1938 – September 17, 2021) guest stars as Major Pfiefer, a supply depot officer, in the Season 3 episode M*A*S*H titled "Adam's Ribs" (#11). He also later guest stars as Major Bartruff, a logistics officer, in the in Season 7 episode M*A*S*H episode titled "C*A*V*E" (#21).
Life and career[]
Hoffman, a native of Houston, Texas, the son of Beulah (née Novoselsky) and David Hoffman, an antique dealer,[1] graduated from Tulane University (LA) with a B.B.A. in economics; and he spent two years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, receiving a scholarship for the second, graduating year. His thirteen years of work in New York included many plays, some roles in episodic television, a recurring character on the ABC-TV daytime soap opera One Life to Live, hundreds of commercials and a film role in Lady Liberty with Sophia Loren, directed by Mario Monicelli.
He made his first trip to Los Angeles in 1974. In that season, he filmed a theatrical feature, At Long Last Love, for Peter Bogdanovich, two television movies, television episodes of Kung Fu, The Rockford Files, Sanford and Son, Police Woman and M*A*S*H, and several commercials. He had recurring roles as the fingerprint technician on Ellery Queen and Principal Dingleman on the short-lived 1982-83 CBS-TV sitcom series Square Pegs.
Although most of his work has been in film and television, he has made a few stage appearances, most notably in Sand Mountain, by Romulus Linney, for which he won a Drama-Logue Award, the first staged reading of Martin E. Brooks’ Joe and Flo at the Actors Studio, and the world premiere of William Blinn's Walking Peoria.
Hoffman died on September 17, 2021, at the age of 83.
References[]
External links[]
- Basil Hoffman article at Wikipedia
