Dustin Hoffman took home just $3,000 from his blockbuster movie The Graduate.

The 89-year-old actor has told how he was only left with the four-figure sum after taking off his expenses, and while the film transformed him into a global star, he was "basically broke".

In his new memoir Look At Me, he wrote: "I only took home $3,000 from The Graduate, after I paid all my expenses, believe it or not. (I had to pay my own way to L.A. for the shoot.)

"When that money ran out, I went on unemployment.

"I couldn't go out in the street without people coming up to touch me and ask for my autograph, but I was still basically broke."

However, Dustin's time on unemployment benefit was short-lived, after Life magazine published a picture of him at an unemployment agency, leaving him "embarrassed".

He added: "I could never go back in there again.

"I was embarrassed by the dirty looks from other people standing in line who needed the money and assumed I didn't."

Dustin recently told of another tough time in his life - when he was held at gunpoint by the husband of a woman he was having an affair with.

The Rain Man actor has recalled his time having a fling "with a married woman" when she invited him over after her husband had gone to bed.

Appearing on the Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend podcast, he said: "I was having an affair with a married woman.

"She thought that once her husband went to sleep that he stayed asleep. I was invited to come over after he went to sleep."

Dustin revealed he and the mystery woman were having a "festival of sorts" when her husband "walked in with a gun" and ordered him out of their home.

He added: "When you have a gun pointed at you - first of all, that hole is much bigger than the actual hole - you realize how, any second, he's gonna pull that trigger.

"His finger is on the trigger and you think, any second. You realize, that's it. I'm gonna die. You will do anything to avoid getting killed."