Dustin Hoffman has starred in a movie.
Dustin Hoffman . This achievement was soon followed by his breakthrough 1967 film role as Benjamin Braddock , the title character in The Graduate . Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American drama film adapted by Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman , and directed by Benton . The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry , based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb , who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College .