---
name: "Jane Hoffman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jane-hoffman"
fi1m_id: "jane-hoffman"
imdb_id: "nm0388939"
tmdb_id: 118940
wikidata_id: "Q22662998"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 July 1911"
died: "26 July 2004"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T20:11:20.254594+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jane Hoffman

## Identity

Jane Hoffman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jane-hoffman
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jane-hoffman
- **IMDb ID:** nm0388939
- **TMDB ID:** 118940
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22662998
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22662998, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388939/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/118940

Actor. Born 24 July 1911 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Died 26 July 2004.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 July 1911, Seattle, Washington, USA
- **Died:** 26 July 2004
- **Active:** 1987–1997
- **Also known as:** Jane Ruth Hoffman
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 63 (1), 1990s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22662998, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388939/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/118940

## Biography

Jane Hoffman was an American actress. Born Jane Ruth Hoffman on 24 July 1911 in Seattle, Washington, she died on 26 July 2004 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.

She appeared in numerous films and television series, including as Muriel Hogenson in *batteries not included* (1987), Grandma in *Deconstructing Harry* (1997), Mrs Baxter in *In & Out* (1997), and roles in *The Sentinel* (1977), *The Day of the Locust* (1975) and episodes of *Law & Order* and *Kojak*.

Hoffman had a long stage career, performing in more than twenty Broadway productions from the 1940s to the 1990s. She originated roles in Edward Albee plays including *The Sandbox* and *The American Dream*, and was a founding member of the Actors Studio. She was the mother of actor Sam McMurray.

*Sources: imdb.com, ibdb.com, chicagotribune.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Deconstructing Harry* (1997), Fi1m 72, as Grandma — [page](https://film.one/film/deconstructing-harry.md)
- **batteries not included* (1987), Fi1m 63, as Muriel Hogenson — [page](https://film.one/film/batteries-not-included.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Deconstructing Harry* (1997), as Grandma — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/deconstructing-harry.md)
- *In & Out* (1997), as Mrs. Baxter
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Jane Rosebrock, Mrs. Fisher — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Grand* (1990), series, as Dott Kasmurski
- **batteries not included* (1987), as Muriel Hogenson — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/batteries-not-included.md)
- *We're Puttin' on the Ritz* (1986), as Dolly Chambers
- *Static* (1986), as Emily Southwick
- *Senior Trip* (1981), as Mrs. Pritchardson
- *Tattoo* (1981), as Teresa
- *The Gift* (1979), as Mrs. Crowley
- *The Sentinel* (1977), as Lillian Clotkin
- *Sybil* (1976), series, as Frieda Dorsett
- *The Day of the Locust* (1975), as Mrs. Odlesh
- *Kojak* (1973), series, as Maggie — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/kojak.md)
- *Up the Sandbox* (1972), as Mrs. Koerner
- *They Might Be Giants* (1971), as 2nd Telephone Operator
- *Ladybug Ladybug* (1963), as Mrs. Hayworth
- *A Hatful of Rain* (1957), as Lone Woman (uncredited)

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