Sources: Philip Seymour Hoffman dead of apparent drug overdose

CNN ^ | 02/02/2014 | Steve Almasy

[BuckeyeTexan]

(CNN) -- Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his Manhattan apartment, law enforcement sources said Sunday.

Hoffman, 46, was found in the bathroom of the fourth-floor apartment, the sources told CNN.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Several bags of heroine found and a needle still in his arm..what a waste

[Repeal The 17th]

...Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead
with a hypodermic needle still stuck in his arm
inside a Greenwich Village apartment on Sunday...
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Filmography
Year - Title
1991 - Law & Order
1991 - Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole
1992 - Szuler
1992 - My New Gun
1992 - Leap of Faith
1992 - Scent of a Woman
1993 - Joey Breaker
1993 - My Boyfriend’s Back
1993 - Money for Nothing
1994 - The Getaway
1994 - The Yearling
1994 - When a Man Loves a Woman
1994 - Nobody’s Fool
1995 - The Fifteen Minute Hamlet
1996 - Hard Eight
1996 - Twister
1997 - Boogie Nights
1997 - Liberty! The American Revolution
1998 - Culture
1998 - Montana
1998 - Next Stop Wonderland
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1998 - Happiness
1998 - Patch Adams
1999 - Flawless
1999 - Magnolia
1999 - The Talented Mr. Ripley
2000 - Titanic 2000
2000 - State and Main
2000 - Almost Famous
2001 - The Party’s Over
2002 - Love Liza
2002 - Punch-Drunk Love
2002 - Red Dragon
2002 - 25th Hour
2003 - Owning Mahowny
2003 - Cold Mountain
2004 - Along Came Polly
2005 - Strangers with Candy
2005 - Empire Falls
2005 - Capote
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I’ve never heard of him and I don’t recall seeing any of those films.

[Vendome]

Confirmed by two friends who know him.

What a waste ....

[sharpee]

There is an epidemic of heroin problems in the country. You can go to your local Obit page in the paper and on line and see young people dying from heroin. It never says junky died because he switched suppliers and did not know the quality but that is what much of it is. You can probably get heroin with in a few miles of your house without any issue. Also look at the uptick in petty crimes and break ins in your area. Many of them are also related to drugs.

Very sad loss.

Wonder where the heroin is coming from.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Yep. A shame.

[SamAdams76]

Wikipedia has been updated.

[SamAdams76]

Big Lebowski was pretty good.

[Repeal The 17th]

OK,
is that the movie where the guy runs around in a bathrobe drinking white russians?

And I did see “Twister”, also, but his role must have been unmemorable in it.

[truth_seeker]

“He’s admitted to heroin addiction previously. Supposedly, there is a mix of heroin and Fentanyl out there.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl

Fentanyl is very, very powerful. A possible overdose to my elderly mother in law, sent her to the emergency room.

A relapse by an addict alcoholic is nothing to be surprised about.

But there are also many addicts/alcoholics in the entertainment world, with long term sobriety.

Sir Anthony Hopkins, Eric Clapton, Robert Downey Jr., Alice Cooper, John Williams, Sir Elton John, Ringo Starr, Bill Ward etc.

Others entertainers with sobriety have relapsed including Mel Gibson, Stephen Tyler, Nick Nolte, etc.

Too bad about Hoffman. He was among the most talented actors of this time.

[SamAdams76]

Yes, he was the guy (in Big Lebowski) who played the butler and got really nervous when the white-russian drinking guy in the bathrobe started handling all those pictures on the wall. Classic.

[Misterioso]

I’ve never heard of him and I don’t recall seeing any of those films.

What an accomplishment!

[who_would_fardels_bear]

He has three children with a long time girlfriend so he is decidedly heterosexual. However, he has played a number of gay roles, so he was definitely not portraying himself.

On IMDB he claims his favorite role was the one he played in 'Magnolia'. I loved that film, and I thought he did an amazing job in it.

At one point he has to look out the window and see it raining frogs after his client had just died. The look on his face was priceless.

[Chode]

Lester Bangs in Almost Famous...

[ansel12]

I’ve seen him portray Philip Seymour Hoffman in Red Dragon, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, and Catching Fire. In Capote he portrayed Truman Capote. I haven’t seen enough of his films to truly come to any conclusions on his acting abilities.

Same here, I liked him, but after seeing the same him several times, some of it wore off.

A rich man in his 40s dying with a dope needle in his arm, to me he telegraphed some sort of prideful arrogance that didn't bode well for his future, this doesn't shock me much.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

I guess he won’t be pretending to be Howie Carr, during any possible future movie/TV series about Whitey Bulger.

[Married with Children]

Wonder if he Sharted?

[Repeal The 17th]

I’ll never be able to watch “Twister” again without crying!!!!

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Another dead druggie. Cry me up a storm.

[macrahanish #1]

I recently got to know a man who has fought heroin addiction for years. He told me that it costs less than $10 for the amount of heroin a new user would need.

[Daveinyork]

Who?