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.
Read more about this topic: List Of Hofstra University Alumni
Famous quotes containing the word film:
“The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”
—Katharine Hepburn (b. 1909)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)
“All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun: his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of rubble, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)