Dustin Hoffman Signed Autographed Colonel Sam Daniels “Outbreak” 8 x 10 Photo – AutographCOA

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Dustin Hoffman is an American actor. As one of the key actors in the formation of New Hollywood, Hoffman is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. He is the recipient of numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Hoffman has received numerous honors including the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1997, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 2012. Actor Robert De Niro described him as “an actor with the everyman’s face who embodied the heartbreakingly human”.

Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey.

The film focuses on an outbreak of Motaba, a fictional ebolavirus- and orthomyxoviridae-like virus, in Zaire, and later in a small town in California. It is set primarily in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak’s plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease.

The film was released by Warner Bros on March 10th, 1995 and was a box-office success. A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire when the film was released. The film’s popularity resurged during the COVID-19 pandemic, ranking as the fourth most streamed film in the United States on Netflix, March 13, 2020.

The featured “Outbreak” 8 x 10 Photo has been signed by Dustin Hoffman in blue. In the movie, Hoffman portrays Colonel Sam Daniels who is a remarkable man – a virologist who is more a public health practitioner and policymaker than scientist; a soldier who is more of a doctor – saving lives, as opposed to taking them. Daniels finds himself at the centre of a rapidly unravelling epidemic surrounding a small town in Cedar Creek, a coastal Californian village. In seeking to make sense of the pandemic, and with the help of some “kind strangers”, Daniels comes to the conclusion that the outbreak is connected with a virus that had supposedly gone extinct decades ago, and yet has resurfaced through a random zoonotic transmission event. Daniels resists against a government that views bombing the town as the sole solution – after a rather tense and melodramatic standoff, all is well, the infected are cured, and the bombing is averted. The Photo includes an official AutographCOA (ACOA) Authentication hologram and matching COA for authenticity purposes.