Film
- Avi Arad, Film Producer, Founder of Marvel Studios, Producer of the Spider-man and X-Men films
- Carol Alt, Supermodel, actress, attended but did not graduate
- Brian Barry, SAG, actor, X-Files, I Am Legend
- James Caan, actor, attended but did not graduate
- Francis Ford Coppola, Academy Award/Oscar-winning director, producer and writer of cinematic classics such as; The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, Patton (won an oscar for writing the screenplay), The Outsiders, American Graffiti (producer), and numerous other films
- Peter Dante, actor. Played Lacrosse at Hofstra. Stars in Happy Madison films such as "The Waterboy", "Big Daddy", "Grandma's boy", etc.
- Robert Davi, actor. Major roles in the James Bond film Licence to Kill, Die Hard, The Goonies, featured roles in Wiseguy
- Rosemarie DeWitt, actress and granddaughter of James Braddock
- Adam Green, Filmmaker, Writer / Director of such films as Hatchet, Spiral, and Frozen
- Madeline Kahn, Tony Award-winner for Best Actress; The Sisters Rosensweig. Twice nominated for an Academy Award. Films include: Paper Moon, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, and High Anxiety.
- Lainie Kazan, actress., starred in My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- Joe Morton, award winning actor. Appeared in Terminator 2, American Gangster etc.
- Mike Starr, noted screen and stage actor. Filmography highlights include: Goodfellas, Dumb and Dumber, Summer of Sam, The Natural, The Bodyguard, and The Black Dahlia
- Christopher Walken, Oscar-winning actor, attended but did not graduate. Opposed to being a theater student, Christopher Walken was a dance student during his time at Hofstra.
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Famous quotes containing the word film:
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
—Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
“If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you’ve got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you’re dumb and blind.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
—Werner Herzog (b. 1942)