# Philip Seymour Hoffman has died. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364 "2014-02-02T18:34:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/1 "2014-02-02T18:34:31Z")
This year is getting off to a bad start. Pete Seeger and Maximilian Schell were older but Hoffman was only 46. > **[Award-Winning Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman Found Dead in Manhattan](https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878)** > > The actor was found dead of an apparent drug overdose Sunday morning in his New York City apartment, police said. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/2 "2014-02-02T18:37:57Z")
Whoa. Unexpected. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/3 "2014-02-02T18:40:25Z")
The only sources I can find for this is WSJ and the NY Post. Hoping it’s not true. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/4 "2014-02-02T18:41:06Z")
Not on TMZ yet, but the WSJ article sound pretty official. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/5 "2014-02-02T18:41:15Z")
Or maybe not so unexpected. Apparently he did a stint in rehab last year for heroin. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/6 "2014-02-02T18:42:56Z")
Wow. That one came out of nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/7 "2014-02-02T18:43:15Z")
Geez, I hope not. He’s brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/8 "2014-02-02T18:44:13Z")
It’s on TMZ now. They’re virtually never wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/9 "2014-02-02T18:46:50Z")
Huffington Post also. An amazing actor. Too young. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/10 "2014-02-02T18:47:16Z")
I’ve not seen a lot of his movies as he really came into his own in the last 11 years or so, and I haven’t seen many movies from that decade. The wife tells me he’ll have to be recast in the next Hunger Games. I suggested two guys I sometimes get confused with him. John c. Reilly or Paul Giamatti. But neither one have his gravitas. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/11 "2014-02-02T18:48:26Z")
Multiple sites, with multiple sources. Fucking hell, 46 is no age at all. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/12 "2014-02-02T18:51:11Z")
Damn it. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/13 "2014-02-02T18:57:12Z")
Holy fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/14 "2014-02-02T18:57:40Z")
Besides Capote I loved him as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/15 "2014-02-02T19:00:45Z")
The last wee touch at the end of this is fucking wonderful (it’s a bit from Charlie Wilson’s War) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/2EXKKC2xoWc/hqdefault.jpg "Charlie Wilson's War Clip") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EXKKC2xoWc) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/16 "2014-02-02T19:04:02Z")
NYP is now saying he had a need in his arm. Heroin is such an unexpected drug of choice for a non-musician/college-educated/middle-aged guy. Not to be indelicate, but I wonder if they have recast Plutarch in Hunger Games 3: Mockingjay 1 yet, and if not whether they’re accepting photos and resumes from non SGA members. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/17 "2014-02-02T19:08:23Z")
Great actor, such a shame. Another reminder that success, fame, and fortune really have little to do with happiness and satisfaction with life. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/18 "2014-02-02T19:08:52Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Not to be indelicate, but I wonder if they have recast Plutarch in Hunger Games 3: Mockingjay 1 yet, and if not whether they’re accepting photos and resumes from non SGA members. You mean in the half hour since his death was announced? Come on. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/19 "2014-02-02T19:09:29Z")
Wow…damn. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364/20 "2014-02-02T19:11:25Z")
I’ve liked his work for a long time. And he’s my age. This is sad, sad news. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philip-seymour-hoffman-has-died/680364.md?page=2)