Some of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s best performances were still to come. The actor, found dead in his New York City apartment from an apparent drug overdose this morning, had been filming his much-anticipated role in the next round of Hunger Games movies. But the storied 46-year-old actor was also beginning what was arguably his finest work yet—in a lesser-known upcoming Showtime comedy series, Happyish. 
 
 Last month, Showtime treated reporters at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour to footage from Happyish, which the network had just officially picked up to series. In the clips screened from the pilot episode, reporters and critics were laughing at the exploits of Hoffman, who played a bitter creative director at a New York City ad agency dealing with a new boss half his age. The footage promised yet another classic Hoffman performance, with a profane rant against social media and an uproarious hallucination involving a Keebler Elf. And even though only the pilot episode had been shot, with a likely series debut set for summer, many in the room—myself included—were already predicting that Hoffman would be making room on his mantle for Emmys, Golden Globes and SAG Awards for his Happyish role. 
 
 After the footage aired, David Nevins, Showtime’s president of entertainment, called Hoffman “one of the really great actors of our time” and admitted that while he’d loved the Happyish script for a long time, “it took us a while to get to Philip Seymour Hoffman…and totally worth it for the waiting.” 
 
 But unless Showtime opts to air the pilot on its own, it’s a performance we’ll never see, given that only one of the 10 episodes had been shot. In the wake of Hoffman’s death, Showtime will have to either recast the project (which, given Nevins’s comments above, will be easier said than done) or drop it entirely. For now, Showtime is focused solely on remembering Hoffman, whom it called in a statement “one of our generation’s finest and most brilliant actors….It was a great privilege and pleasure to work with him and we are all absolutely devastated by this sudden loss.” 
 
 There is far less uncertainty about Hoffman’s other major outstanding project: his The Hunger Games: Catching Fire role as head gamesmaker Plutarch Heavensbee, which he was set to reprise in the franchise’s final two films, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2. The films are currently being shot back-to-back in Atlanta, and Hoffman had already completed his work on Part 1 and had just seven days left on Part 2, according to The Hollywood Reporter. While it is still unclear how producers will navigate around those unshot scenes, Hoffman’s death is not expected to affect the release dates of either film (Part 1 is set for Nov. 21, 2014; Part 2 is due Nov. 20, 2015). 
 
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 Philip Seymour Hofman passed away at the age of 46 on Sunday. Throughout his Oscar-winning career, the actor gave many memorable performances — from the mysterious and calculating Lancaster Dodd in The Master, to the hot-tempered Gust in Charlie Wilson’s War, to Lester Bangs, the iconic rock journalist in Almost Famous. 
 
 Check out some of our favorite scenes below, and tell us yours in the comments. 
 
 The Master: 
 
 Doubt: 
 
 Charlie Wilson’s War: 
 
 Mission: Impossible III: 
 
 Capote: 
 
 Along Came Polly: 
 
 Punch Drunk Love: 
 
 Almost Famous: 
 
 Magnolia: 
 
 The Big Lebowski: 
 
 Boogie Nights: 
 
 Hard Eight: 

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 Philip Seymour Hoffman, who tragically died today at 46, never phoned it in. Even when the movie was terrible. It should be said, he didn’t do a lot of bad movies—a quick glance at Rotten Tomatoes shows that his movies were almost uniformly well-received—but instead favored strong projects from talents like Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master) and Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball). 
 
 
 
 But even when Hoffman was stuck in an absolute stinker, you could always count on him to remain 100-percent committed. 
 
 
 
 Forrest Wickman Forrest Wickman is Slate’s culture editor. 
 
 
 
 Twister (1996) 
 
 
 
 Twister was little more than a feature-length excuse for animating CGI tornadoes, and Philip Seymour Hoffman was cast in the relatively thankless role of the radio man. And yet he managed to turn this small supporting role into a character memorable enough that fans have cut highlight reels of just his performance. One is below; the other one is 9 minutes. 
 
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 Patch Adams (1998) 
 
 
 
 Patch Adams was a star vehicle for Robin Williams, a chance for him to combine his award-winning performance as a real-life doctor in Awakenings with his comedic gifts. Hoffman was cast, as he so often was, as the heel, but I remember watching this movie even as a kid and noticing his talent. Not for the first or the last time, he conjured up the kind of loser you could at once sympathize with and love to hate. 
 
 Red Dragon (2002) 
 
 
 
 One of Hoffman’s specialties was playing creepy pervs, and he offered a version of that type in Red Dragon, one of the less acclaimed Hannibal Lecter films, in which he played a nosy tabloid reporter. 
 
 
 
 Hoffman’s loathsome character quickly falls victim to the dragon, giving Hoffman a scene in which he has little to do but react with terror (“Oh God,” “Oh my dear God Jesus,” “Please no”). The scene calls for a tricky mix of horror and campy humor, and Hoffman walks the line expertly. 
 
 Mission: Impossible III (2006) 
 
 
 
 Hoffman managed to be legitimately chilling in his role as the icy villain Owen Davian in Mission: Impossible III (a movie that’s not exactly bad but also isn’t up to Hoffman’s usual high standards). But he also got the chance to provide some campy fun, too. 
 
 
 
 In this scene, Hoffman plays not only Davian, but also (thanks to the series’ signature masks) Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt as Owen Davian. This leads to a set piece in which the actor fights himself—but my favorite part is just around 25 seconds in, when he pulls his features into the ultimate Tom-Cruise-is-determined face. 
 
 Along Came Polly (2004) 
 
 
 
 The world’s collective memory has wisely chosen to forget Along Came Polly, the Razzie-nominated rom-com starring Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston, except for this: Philip Seymour Hoffman shouting “Let it rain!” 
 
 
 
 Hoffman was as as good at comedy as he was at drama. Just think of his yes-man character paraphrasing his boss in The Big Lebowski: “This is our concern, Dude.” Even when he was supporting Ben Stiller, it was his “Rain dance!” that ran away with the movie. 
 

– In the wake of Philip Seymour Hoffman's death, site after site has been rounding up clips of his best work. Unfortunately, his greatest performance is one you'll likely never see, Jason Lynch writes for Quartz. Lynch, the former TV editor for People, was one of the lucky reporters who got a sneak peak of Happyish last month. That's the Showtime series that was to show Hoffman as a somewhat miserable NYC creative director with a much-younger ad-agency boss. "The footage promised yet another classic Hoffman performance," writes Lynch, "with a profane rant against social media and an uproarious hallucination involving a Keebler Elf." Having seen just a glimpse, Lynch pegged the performance —"arguably his finest work yet"—as one sure to bring Hoffman Emmys and Golden Globes. But he predicts that it's an artistic turn that will die with Hoffman. Only one of the 10 episodes were shot, leaving Showtime two options: Air just the pilot, or move on. And in terms of moving on, Lynch sees it as somewhat unlikely that Showtime would find a replacement for Hoffman, especially after a Showtime exec previously admitted that it waited patiently for a long time to get Hoffman to sign on. Lynch notes that Hoffman will likely close out the last two Hunger Games films as head gamesmaker Plutarch Heavensbee, however. He had done all the shooting for Mockingjay Part 1 and all but seven days for Part 2. Sources tell the Hollywood Reporter the November 2014 and 2015 release dates won't be altered.