Philip Seymour Hoffman: A life in film
The news of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s sudden death rocked the nation, not only because of the shocking nature of his demise – heroin overdose, found cold with the needle in his arm – but also because the character actor seemed beyond all that triviality, wise beyond his years, a sage in the age of the Channing Tatums and Chris Hemsworths.