Question: Which American actor, director and producer best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles- typically lowlifes, eccentrics, bullies, and misfits – Hoffman acted in many films from the early 1990s until his death at age 46, did sister James indicate might have too much personal attention with the school's only black student Donald Miller (Joseph Foster)?

full_context: Document 1: Doubt (2008 film): Doubt is a 2008 American period drama film written and directed by John Patrick Shanley based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play "". Produced by Scott Rudin, the film takes place in a St. Nicholas school led by Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep). Sister James (Amy Adams) tells Aloysius that Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) might have too much personal attention with the school's only black student Donald Miller (Joseph Foster), thus leading to Aloysius starting a crusade against Flynn. The film also stars Viola Davis as Donald Miller's mother, Mrs. Miller.
Document 2: Dustin Hoffman filmography: American actor Dustin Hoffman began his career by appearing in an episode of "Naked City" in 1961. His first theatrical performance was 1961's "A Cook for Mr. General" as Ridzinski. Following several guest appearances on television, he starred in the 1966 play "Eh?"; his performance garnered him both a Theatre World Award and Drama Desk Award. Hoffman made his film debut in 1967 when he appeared in the comedy "The Tiger Makes Out". In the same year, his breakthrough role as Benjamin "Ben" Braddock, the title character in Mike Nichols' comedy-drama "The Graduate", led to Hoffman achieving star status and his first Academy Award nomination. He then acted in the play "Jimmy Shine" as the eponymous character and the comedy film "Madigan's Millions" (both 1968). In 1969, he starred alongside Jon Voight in the Academy Award for Best Picture winner "Midnight Cowboy", which Hoffman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor a second time.
Document 3: David Mamet: David Alan Mamet ( ; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984) and "Speed-the-Plow" (1988). Mamet first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, "The Duck Variations," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," and "American Buffalo." His play "Race" opened on Broadway on December 6, 2009, and his play "The Penitent" previewed off-Broadway on February 8, 2017.
Document 4: John Malkovich: John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has appeared in more than 70 films. For his roles in "Places in the Heart" and "In the Line of Fire", he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in films such as "Empire of the Sun", "The Killing Fields", "Con Air", "Of Mice and Men", "Rounders", "Ripley's Game", "Knockaround Guys", "Being John Malkovich", "Shadow of the Vampire", "Burn After Reading", "RED", "Mulholland Falls", "Dangerous Liaisons", and "Warm Bodies", as well as producing films such as "Ghost World", "Juno", and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower".
Document 5: Shadow of Doubt (1998 film): Shadow of Doubt is a 1998 American independent mystery-thriller film directed by Randal Kleiser and starring Melanie Griffith, Tom Berenger, Craig Sheffer, and Huey Lewis.
Document 6: Gregg Hoffman: Gregg Hoffman (June 11, 1963 – December 4, 2005), born in Phoenix, Arizona, was a film producer responsible for developing "Saw" and "Saw II". He studied communications, law and economics at American University in Washington, D.C. Hoffman was working on "Saw III" and other films for Twisted Pictures when he died in a hospital in Hollywood, California of natural causes. He was 42 years old at his death. The movie "Dead Silence" (2007) was dedicated to him. He was also thanked in the movie "Gross misconduct", mentioned as dedicatee for "Saw III", and posthumously credited with producing the "Saw" films from 2007 through 2017.
Document 7: Al Pacino: Alfredo James Pacino ( ; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor of stage and screen, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Pacino has had a career spanning over five decades, during which time he has received numerous accolades and honors both competitive and honorary, among them an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts. He is also one of few performers to have won a competitive Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony Award for acting, dubbed the "Triple Crown of Acting".
Document 8: Deanna Dunagan: Deanna Dunagan (born May 25, 1928) is a Chicago-based American actress. Although Dunagan has appeared on television and in films, she is most admired for her work as a stage actress. She is best known for her Tony Award-winning portrayal of Violet Weston in Tracy Letts' "" and for her portrayal of Nana in M. Night Shyamalan's 2015 film "The Visit". More recently she has appeared in the recurring role of Mother Bernadette on the Fox television series "The Exorcist". She portrays Dr. Willa Sipe in the upcoming 2018 film "The Pages" by writer Joe Chappelle.
Document 9: Dustin Hoffman: Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor and a director, with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. Hoffman has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1980 for "Kramer vs. Kramer", and in 1989 for "Rain Man".
Document 10: Synecdoche, New York: Synecdoche, New York is a 2008 American postmodern drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. It is Kaufman's directorial debut.
Document 11: Philip Seymour Hoffman: Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor, director, and producer. Best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles – typically lowlifes, eccentrics, bullies, and misfits – Hoffman acted in many films from the early 1990s until his death at age 46.
Document 12: Children of a Lesser God: Children of a Lesser God is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Randa Haines and written by Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff. An adaptation of Medoff's Tony Award–winning stage play of the same name, the film stars Marlee Matlin (in an Oscar-winning performance) and William Hurt as employees at a school for the deaf: a deaf custodian and a hearing speech teacher, whose conflicting ideologies on speech and deafness create tension and discord in their developing romantic relationship.
Document 13: Philip Seymour Hoffman on stage and screen: Philip Seymour Hoffman (19672014) was an American actor, director, and producer. He was prolific in both film and theater from the early 1990s until his death at the age of 46, after which "The New York Times" declared him "perhaps the most ambitious and widely admired American actor of his generation".
Document 14: Meryl Streep in the 2000s: Meryl Streep throughout the 2000s appeared in many cinematic and theatrical productions. In 2001, Streep’s voice appeared in the animated film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Streep that same year cohosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert as well as appeared in the popular play The Seagull. In 2002, Streep appeared in the films Adaptation and The Hours. In 2003, Streep appeared unaccredited in the comedy Stuck on You and starred in the HBO play adaptation Angels in America. In 2004, Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award and in that same year starred in the films The Manchurian Candidate and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. In 2005, Streep starred in the film Prime. Streep began 2006 with the film A Prairie Home Companion and that same year starred in The Devil Wears Prada and the stage production Mother Courage and Her Children. In 2007, Streep appeared in the films Dark Matter, Rendition, Evening, and Lions for Lambs. In 2008, Streep starred in the films Mamma Mia! and Doubt. In 2009, Streep starred in Julie & Julia and It’s Complicated as well as loaning her voice to the animated film Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Document 15: The Good Mother (1988 film): The Good Mother is a 1988 American drama film and an adaptation of Sue Miller's novel of the same name. Directed by Leonard Nimoy, the film stars Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson in the leading roles. "The Good Mother" explores feelings and beliefs about children's exposure to adult sexuality and challenges society's growing reliance upon courts to settle complex private and ethical matters.
ground_truth: Philip Seymour Hoffman