How Basil Hoffman Inspired Us at AFM (Guest Blog)

The “All The President’s Men” and “Seinfeld” actor reveals how he came to Hollywood with a dream and no representation, and ended up working with...

The lobby bar at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica, California, during the week of the American Film Market is not for the faint of heart.

Imagine the Mos Eisley bar scene from “Star Wars.”

Replace the aliens and black marketeers with producers and distributors.

Cantina creatures and the willowy gauze of Jedi robes?

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Yes! “Seinfeld!” The guy that fitted George for a toupee while Jerry was delivering a biting critique of George’s new “look.”

[...] parenthetically, the reason he said I’d never do his show was because he was casting a martial arts Western called ‘Kung Fu.’

It was all stunt men, Western types and martial arts types and all that.

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“That night, I had a hand-written note from Redford, saying that my work in the Budget Meeting scene was ‘real good and contributed to the tone of the film,'” he continued.

[...] I did, and I’m also Kenneth Dahlberg in the film.

Since “All The President’s Men,” Robert Redford has requested Basil for “The Electric Horseman,” “The Milagro Beanfield War” and “Ordinary People.”

The actor who hit town with a dream and no representation, has since worked with classic directors like Peter Bogdanovich, Carl Reiner, Richard Benjamin, Oscar winners Stanley Donen, Delbert Mann, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Blake Edwards Sydney Pollack, Michel Hazanavicius, Paolo Sorrentino, the Coen brothers, and of course, Redford.