1 Tootsie:
About a failing actor who adopts a new identity as a woman to land a role.
2 Rain Man: Oscar-winning performance as an autistic savant.
3 The Graduate: He plays a college leaver seduced by Mrs Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft.
4 Kramer Vs Kramer: Hoffman played an advertising exec left to look after his son after a messy divorce.
5 Meet The Fockers: Starred as the wacky Bernie Focker, alongside Robert De Niro and Barbra Streisand.
6 Papillon: It tells the true story of a prisoner who escaped from Devil's Island penitentiary.
7 Little Big Man: A revisionist Western telling an alternative version of Custer's Last Stand.
8 Midnight Cowboy: Hoffman starred with Jon Voight in the only X-rated film to have won Best Picture Oscar.
9 Hook: Memorable performance as Captain Hook, opposite Robin Williams as Peter Pan.
10 All The President's Men: In the true story of Watergate, he starred with Robert Redford.
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