Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss

Born 1947-10-29 (age 78) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Biography

Richard Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor. He has starred in film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob? and Mr. Holland's Opus. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories.

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Known For

Jaws
Jaws

1975

as Hooper

RED
RED

2010

as Alexander Dunning

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Graduate
The Graduate

1967

as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

Piranha 3D
Piranha 3D

2010

as Matthew Boyd

Stand by Me
Stand by Me

1986

as The Writer

Poseidon
Poseidon

2006

as Richard Nelson

James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach

1996

as Centipede (voice)

Polar
Polar

2019

as Porter

American Graffiti
American Graffiti

1973

as Curt Henderson

Stakeout
Stakeout

1987

as Det. Chris Lecce

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
The American President
The American President

1995

as Senator Rumson

My Life in Ruins
My Life in Ruins

2009

as Irv Gideon

Daughter of the Wolf
Daughter of the Wolf

2019

as Father

Paranoia
Paranoia

2013

as Frank Cassidy

Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge

1990

as Dr. Frankenthal

Another Stakeout
Another Stakeout

1993

as Det. Chris Lecce

Night Falls on Manhattan
Night Falls on Manhattan

1997

as Sam Vigoda