Joffe won the 1977 Academy Award for Best Picture as producer of Allen's Annie Hall.
Annie Hall was listed as "A Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production", though only Joffe took producer credit and received the Academy Award for Best Picture.
[3][4] He worked as a booking agent for bands at local nightclubs while studying journalism at Syracuse University.
[3] He then worked under Rollins as a junior agent at Music Corporation of America.
[6] He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a week before his 79th birthday, after a long illness.