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Leslie Hoffman is a Actor and Stunts American born on 21 january 1955 at Saranac Lake (USA)
Leslie Hoffman was an American stunt performer, stunt coordinator and actress.
Her early education and training included gymnastics and ballet camps, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Herbert Berkoff Studios in New York. She was inspired to pursue stunt acting upon seeing a Universal Studios Tour stunt show; she travelled to California and studied at stuntman Paul Stader's stunt gym.
Hoffman began stunt work in the mid-1970s with the film Two-Minute Warning (1976), and several television series, including Police Story, M*A*S*H, a 78-foot high fall into water for The Love Boat, as well as working on Fantasy Island, Charlie's Angels, and doubling for the six-foot tall Lainie Kazan in a circular stair fall for Columbo. She also stunt doubled for Doris Roberts in the TV series Remington Steele. Film acting work included Avalanche (1978), Deadly Friend (1986), Trust Me (1989) and Naked Gun (1998).
Hoffman played the Hall Guard (Krueger) character in Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and stunted in I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Motel Hell (1980), Resurrection (1980), Clue (1985), Alien Nation (1988), Mars (1997), Mystery Men (1999), and served as stunt coordinator for, and acted in, the ABC After School Special Me and My Hormones (1996). She also stunt-doubled for Laurie Metcalf, who played the killer in Scream 2 (1997).
Hoffman was the first stuntwoman elected to the Screen Actors Guild Board of Directors, where she served from 1981 to 1985. As a director, she advocated for stuntwomen and stuntpersons of color, toward equal work and representation in the union. She lost her bid for re-election in 1985.
From 1990s onward, she worked as a stunt coordinator and rigger on several films, as well as doubling for several actresses in feature films and television. Her work includes stunt acting roles in multiple episodes of the Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine television series. Hoffman had provided stunt coordination for student film productions for USC, Loyola Marymount University and UCLA.
Leslie became disabled in 2002 and has been unable to continue her Career as a stuntwoman or stunt coordinator. On Social Security Disability due to trauma to her body during stunt work, Hoffman has advocated for fair treatment for disabled stuntpeople, including correct taxation on residual income.
Though she is entitled to Occupational Disability Pension and Health Plans by the Screen Actors Guild Health Plan, they have denied her. She has been in a legal battle with them even now. Occupational Disability Pension and Health is given to a SAG Member who has been injured on a set. Her Continuous Trauma involves physical injuries and well as a Traumatic Brain Injury, the same types of injuries that the NFL Players have been fighting for as well as our Soldiers are suffering from now.
A Los Angeles Judge even ruled in favor of the Health Plan even though the L.A. Judge cited that the SAG Health Plan had not even followed their own rules. This was later overturned by a Higher California Court and sent back to the L.A. Court.
Recently the SAG Pension and Health are now trying to strip her of her Disability Pension Plan and wants the money they paid out to her back with interest. She was declared disabled and has been receiving SSD by the Federal Government ever since 2002.
[Deadline Article by David Robb-Former SAG Board Member Leslie Hoffman's toughest stunt getting her Union Benefits http://www.deadline.com/2015/06/former-sag-board-member-leslie-hoffmans-toughest-stunt-getting-her-union-benefits-1201448519]
[Deadline Article by David Robb-SAG Pension and Health Plans strips disabled stuntwoman of her Pension http://www.deadline.com/2015/06/sag-pension-health-plans-strips-disabled-stuntwoman-of-her-pension-1201453009/]
[National Legal and Policy Center Article by Carl Horowitz-http://www.nlpc.org/category/people/leslie-hoffman]
[Concussion Inc Article by Irvin Muchnick- http://www.concussioninc.net/?p=10177]
[Adirondack Daily Enterprise Article by Chris Knight-http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/554997/A-stuntwoman-s-battle.
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Her early education and training included gymnastics and ballet camps, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Herbert Berkoff Studios in New York. She was inspired to pursue stunt acting upon seeing a Universal Studios Tour stunt show; she travelled to California and studied at stuntman Paul Stader's stunt gym.
Hoffman began stunt work in the mid-1970s with the film Two-Minute Warning (1976), and several television series, including Police Story, M*A*S*H, a 78-foot high fall into water for The Love Boat, as well as working on Fantasy Island, Charlie's Angels, and doubling for the six-foot tall Lainie Kazan in a circular stair fall for Columbo. She also stunt doubled for Doris Roberts in the TV series Remington Steele. Film acting work included Avalanche (1978), Deadly Friend (1986), Trust Me (1989) and Naked Gun (1998).
Hoffman played the Hall Guard (Krueger) character in Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and stunted in I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Motel Hell (1980), Resurrection (1980), Clue (1985), Alien Nation (1988), Mars (1997), Mystery Men (1999), and served as stunt coordinator for, and acted in, the ABC After School Special Me and My Hormones (1996). She also stunt-doubled for Laurie Metcalf, who played the killer in Scream 2 (1997).
Hoffman was the first stuntwoman elected to the Screen Actors Guild Board of Directors, where she served from 1981 to 1985. As a director, she advocated for stuntwomen and stuntpersons of color, toward equal work and representation in the union. She lost her bid for re-election in 1985.
From 1990s onward, she worked as a stunt coordinator and rigger on several films, as well as doubling for several actresses in feature films and television. Her work includes stunt acting roles in multiple episodes of the Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine television series. Hoffman had provided stunt coordination for student film productions for USC, Loyola Marymount University and UCLA.
Leslie became disabled in 2002 and has been unable to continue her Career as a stuntwoman or stunt coordinator. On Social Security Disability due to trauma to her body during stunt work, Hoffman has advocated for fair treatment for disabled stuntpeople, including correct taxation on residual income.
Though she is entitled to Occupational Disability Pension and Health Plans by the Screen Actors Guild Health Plan, they have denied her. She has been in a legal battle with them even now. Occupational Disability Pension and Health is given to a SAG Member who has been injured on a set. Her Continuous Trauma involves physical injuries and well as a Traumatic Brain Injury, the same types of injuries that the NFL Players have been fighting for as well as our Soldiers are suffering from now.
A Los Angeles Judge even ruled in favor of the Health Plan even though the L.A. Judge cited that the SAG Health Plan had not even followed their own rules. This was later overturned by a Higher California Court and sent back to the L.A. Court.
Recently the SAG Pension and Health are now trying to strip her of her Disability Pension Plan and wants the money they paid out to her back with interest. She was declared disabled and has been receiving SSD by the Federal Government ever since 2002.
[Deadline Article by David Robb-Former SAG Board Member Leslie Hoffman's toughest stunt getting her Union Benefits http://www.deadline.com/2015/06/former-sag-board-member-leslie-hoffmans-toughest-stunt-getting-her-union-benefits-1201448519]
[Deadline Article by David Robb-SAG Pension and Health Plans strips disabled stuntwoman of her Pension http://www.deadline.com/2015/06/sag-pension-health-plans-strips-disabled-stuntwoman-of-her-pension-1201453009/]
[National Legal and Policy Center Article by Carl Horowitz-http://www.nlpc.org/category/people/leslie-hoffman]
[Concussion Inc Article by Irvin Muchnick- http://www.concussioninc.net/?p=10177]
[Adirondack Daily Enterprise Article by Chris Knight-http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/page/content.detail/id/554997/A-stuntwoman-s-battle.
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, 4hDirected by Daniel Farrands
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Horror
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Serial killer films, Documentary films about films
Actors Heather Langenkamp, Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Robert Shaye, Lisa Wilcox, John Saxon
Roles Self
Rating85%
Depuis des décennies, Freddy Krueger s'est frayé un chemin à travers les rêves d'innombrables jeunes, effrayant plus d'un demi-milliard de dollars au box-office à travers huit films terrifiants et spectaculaires.
Born Free (music video) (2010)
Directed by Romain Gavras
Origin USA
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Michael Q. Schmidt, Leslie Hoffman
Rating79%
The film is over nine minutes long and depicts a SWAT team driving up to a building and staging a raid, during which they ignore a man sitting in a room smoking a crack pipe, beat a couple engaged in coitus, and then force a young red-haired man violently into a detainee transport vehicle. Other red-heads are rounded up. Some of the SWAT team members wear American flags on their uniforms. During the video, a mural is seen depicting armed red-headed men and the slogan "Our day will come", the historic motto of the Irish Republican Army (Tiocfaidh ár lá). Keffiya-wearing red-haired young people throw rocks and glass bottles at the armored vehicles transporting the detainees, in an apparent reference to the iconic images of the Second Palestinian "Intifada". The detainees are then driven out to the desert, treated brutally, and forced to run across a live minefield. During the course of events, a young red-headed boy is shot through the head, and another is blown to pieces after stepping on a live mine while the soldiers continue to chase, beat, and shoot the captives.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
, 1h30Directed by Wes Craven, Sean S. Cunningham
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Freddy, Ghost films, Serial killer films, Teen movie
Actors John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Johnny Depp
Roles Hallguard
Rating73%
A mysterious man walks into a decrepit boiler room, where he makes a sharp clawed glove.
Airplane! (1980)
, 1h25Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves
Rating76%
Ex-fighter pilot and taxi driver Ted Striker (Robert Hays) became traumatized during an unnamed war, leading to a pathological fear of flying. As a result, he is unable to hold a responsible job. His wartime girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty), now a flight attendant, leaves him. Striker nervously boards a Boeing 707 (Trans American Flight 209) from Los Angeles to Chicago on which she is serving, hoping to win her back, but she rebuffs him.
The Car (1977)
, 1h37Directed by Elliot Silverstein
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley, Ronny Cox, R.G. Armstrong, John Rubinstein
Roles High School Student (uncredited)
Rating61%
Two bicyclists cycling on a canyon are followed by a mysterious black car down the road. At the bridge, the car proceeds to crush one cyclist against the wall, and ram the other from behind, causing him to fall off the bridge. A hitchhiker, hoping to get a ride, encounters the car and insults it after it purposefully tries to run him down. In response, the car runs over him and leaves. The local sheriff's office, called to the first of a series of hit and run deaths, get a lead on the car that appears heavily customized and has no license plate, as pointed out by Amos Clemens (R. G. Armstrong) after he sees it run over the hitchhiker.
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Scream 2 (1997)
, 2hDirected by Wes Craven
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Serial killer films, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy, Sarah Michelle Prinze, Elise Neal
Roles Stunts
Rating63%
While attending a preview of the film Stab, a film within a film based on the Woodsboro murders depicted in Scream, two Ohio Windsor College seniors, Maureen Evans and Phil Stevens are murdered by Ghostface. Phil is stabbed through the ear in a bathroom stall while trying to eavesdrop on strange whimpering noises. The killer, wearing a Ghostface costume, then returns to the screening and sits beside Maureen, before mortally stabbing her. At first the audience believe she is part of the raucuous acting out by audience members, until she falls dead in front of the cinema screen.
, 1h37Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about families, Christmas films, Transport films, Le thème des vacances, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, John Randolph
Roles Stunt Double
Rating74%
With Christmas only a few weeks away, Chicago resident Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) decides it is time to get a Christmas tree. He gathers his wife Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo), daughter Audrey (Juliette Lewis) and son Rusty (Johnny Galecki) and drives out to the country where he picks out a huge tree. Realizing too late that they didn't bring any tools to cut the tree down, they are forced to uproot it instead.
Stewardess School (1986)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Brett Cullen, Don Most, Judy Landers, Mary Cadorette-Harris, Wendie Jo Sperber, Julia Montgomery
Roles Stunts
Rating42%
When frat boys Philo (Cullen) and George (Most) fail at becoming pilots, the duo decides to join Weidermeyer Academy, one of the top stewardess schools in the country. During training, the guys encounter a group of misfits who run the gamut of quirkiness. The group end up bonding and they're all sent to the seedy Stromboli Airlines for their final test.
Deadly Friend (1986)
, 1h31Directed by Wes Craven
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about computing, Robot films
Actors Matthew Laborteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey, Anne Ramsey, Richard Marcus
Roles Stunts
Rating55%
In a parking lot, a thief tries to steal from a van, but a robot named BB (voiced by Charles Fleischer) stops him by grabbing this throat. BB lets go of the dazed thief as soon as Paul Conway (Matthew Laborteaux) and his mother Jeannie (Anne Twomey) return from shopping and drive away in the van. Paul is the owner of BB, whom he built. They arrive at their new house in the town of Welling the next day.
Out of Bounds (1986)
, 1h33Directed by Richard Tuggle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Anthony Michael Hall, Jenny Wright, Jeff Kober, Glynn Turman, Jerry Levine, Raymond J. Barry
Roles Stunts
Rating54%
Hall portrays Daryl Cage, an Iowa farm boy whose parents send him to live in Los Angeles with his brother. At the airport, Daryl's suitcase full of checkered flannel shirts is switched with one containing a drug kingpin's heroin. The gangster boss has Cage's brother and his live-in girlfriend murdered, but the police suspect Daryl of the crime. Cage becomes the prime suspect of his brother's murder and must clear his own name. He must also rid himself of the heroin by tracking down the kingpin.
Clue (1985)
, 1h34Directed by Jonathan Lynn
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Jeu, Films about sexuality, Films about toys
Actors Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Lesley Ann Warren, Michael McKean, Christopher Lloyd, Madeline Kahn
Roles Stunts
Rating72%
In 1954 New England, against a backdrop of McCarthyism, six strangers are invited to a party at a secluded New England mansion. They are met by the house butler Wadsworth, who reminds them that they have been given pseudonyms to protect their true identity. During dinner, the seventh attendee, Mr. Boddy, arrives. After dinner, Wadsworth takes everyone to the study and reveals the true nature of the party: all of the guests are being blackmailed:
Protocol (1984)
, 1h36Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Gail Strickland, Cliff De Young, Andre Gregory
Roles Stunts
Rating55%
Sunny Ann Davis is a seemingly ditzy blonde who works as a cocktail waitress in Washington, D.C. She rents a small room in the home of a gay couple, has a lousy love life and drives a rust bucket of a car that she cannot afford to repair.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
, 1h30Directed by Wes Craven, Sean S. Cunningham
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Freddy, Ghost films, Serial killer films, Teen movie
Actors John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Johnny Depp
Roles Stunts
Rating73%
A mysterious man walks into a decrepit boiler room, where he makes a sharp clawed glove.
Resurrection (1980)
, 1h43Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy
Themes Films about religion
Actors Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Pamela Payton-Wright, Roberts Blossom, Jeffrey DeMunn
Roles Stunts
Rating70%
À la suite d'un accident d'automobile où elle perd son mari, Edna Mae Macaulay se découvre un pouvoir de guérison. Certaines personnes de la petite ville où elle s'est retirée acceptent cet étrange pouvoir tandis que d'autres s'en méfient...
Airplane! (1980)
, 1h25Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves
Roles Stunts
Rating76%
Ex-fighter pilot and taxi driver Ted Striker (Robert Hays) became traumatized during an unnamed war, leading to a pathological fear of flying. As a result, he is unable to hold a responsible job. His wartime girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty), now a flight attendant, leaves him. Striker nervously boards a Boeing 707 (Trans American Flight 209) from Los Angeles to Chicago on which she is serving, hoping to win her back, but she rebuffs him.