About John Hoffman
Lived 1904 – 1980 (aged 75). John Hoffman was an American filmmaker and film director.
John Hoffman (29 August 1904, in Hungary – 6 January 1980, in Altadena, California), was an American editor of montage sequences for several Hollywood studio features. He also directed a number of films, including The Wreck of the Hesperus and Strange Confession.
With his colleague, the Serbian montagist Slavko Vorkapich, Hoffman made two striking visual tone poems, Moods of the Sea (a.k.a. Fingal's Cave, 1941) and Forest Murmurs (1947). The former film is set to Felix Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and was restored in 2004 by film preservation expert David Shepard.
Selected filmography The Crimson Canary (1945) The Fabulous Suzanne (1946) Storm Over Tibet (1952)
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American filmmaker
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John Hoffman was born on 29 August 1904.
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John Hoffman died on 6 January 1980.
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John Hoffman was a filmmaker and film director.
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