Dustin Hoffman has been praised for his actions after he came to the rescue of a jogger who suffered a heart attack in London's Hyde Park.
As various news sources reported on Tuesday, the star called the emergency services after 27-year-old lawyer Sam Dempster fell to the ground. The actor tended to the stricken man and stayed with him while an ambulance crew arrived and performed CPR.
We're used to seeing Hollywood actors perform heroic deeds in films – including Hoffman himself in the 1992 comedy Accidental Hero – but it's much rarer to hear about them in real life. By coming to the runner's aid, Hoffman has joined a short list of stars who could conceivably have a claim to being a hero.
But which other stars have performed heroically? Ryan Gosling, for preventing Laurie Penny from wandering into traffic? Angelina Jolie for her humanitarian work with the UN? Arnold Schwarzenegger, for his efforts to terminate the budget deficit? George Clooney, getting himself arrested to raise awareness of a humanitarian crisis in the Sudan? Or how about James Stewart, who served in the US Air Force during the the second world war?
Of all the pantheon of Hollywood stars, who, in your opinion, has done the most to merit being called a hero?
