Director of Family Secrets in the year 1984; starring Melissa Gilbert, James Spader, Stefanie Powers, and Maureen Stapleton.
He also directed for TV Out of Our Father's House (1978), 3 by Cheever: The Sorrows of Gin (1979), The Elephant Man (1982), "Family Secrets (1984), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1985).
In 1985, Hofsiss dived into a pool and had a spinal cord injury, resulting in paralysis up to his mid-chest.
Just months after the accident he returned to the theater scene, directing All the Way Home at the Berkshire Theatre Festival.
[5] Hofsiss spoke candidly about the effect disability had on his life and work in the book Chronicles of Courage: Very Special Artists written by Jean Kennedy Smith and George Plimpton and published by Random House.