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Carl von Hoffman
Carl von Hoffman (Center) and Pancho Villa. Von Hoffman was on assignment from D. W. Griffith to gather films of Pancho Villa. For this, Villa was to be paid $25,000.
Born
1899 (1899)
St. Petersburg, Russia
Died
July 8, 1982(1982-07-08) (aged 82–83)
New York, New York
Occupation(s)
Explorer, soldier
Children
Nicholas von Hoffman
Carl von Hoffman (c. 1889 in St. Petersburg or Latvia, Russia – 8 July 1982 in New York, New York, US) was a soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer of German ancestry. He was possibly a descendant of Melchior Hoffman; journalist Nicholas von Hoffman is his son.
In 1905 or 1906, von Hoffman—then a military cadet—disobeyed his mother's wishes and joined the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. For actions during the war he was awarded the Order of St. Anna. He participated in World War I, serving in the Russian army, and then under Admiral Kolchak on the White Russian side in the Russian Civil War. Von Hoffman claimed to have been on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition in 1913; however, Theodore Roosevelt does not mention him in his memoir of the expedition, but footage proving von Hoffman's presence can be found here.
Von Hoffman was an explorer who once led a safari from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo—a walk that took him three years and was the basis of his two books, Jungle Gods (New York, H. Holt and Company [c1929]) and Jerry on Safari: A 7,000 Mile Journey from Cairo to the Cape (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1936). Von Hoffman's photographs of the Mexican Revolution and of Theodore Roosevelt were celebrated; his photographs of Roosevelt and Pancho Villa were exhibited in 2002 at the Martin & Osa Johnson Safari
Museum.[1] He was the cinematographer for films including The Life of General Villa, (1914,[citation needed]), featuring Pancho Villa himself. The movie was produced by D. W. Griffith. Von Hoffman often said his knowledge of the use of machine guns was one of the things Griffiths offered Villa to gain his participation in the movie. (In 2003, the filming of the documentary about Villa was turned into a TV movie, And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Larry Gelbart with the minor role of von Hoffman played by Julian Sedgwick.[citation needed]) Von Hoffman was also cinematographer of The Marriage Bond (1916) directed by Lawrence Marston. He was a member of the Explorers Club. He was also an Honorary Life Member and past president (1962) of the Adventurers' Club of New York.[2]
The following sections are based entirely on an interview with Capt. von Hoffman with no support from other documents.
^"Captain of Adventure" (PDF). Exchange. Kansas Museums Association: 3. Summer 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-12-30.
^The Adventurers' Golden Jubilee 1964, The Adventures' Club, Inc., 1965.
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