Richard Dreyfuss
Acting
- Born:
- 1947-10-29
- Place of birth:
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Waltzing with Brando
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Into the Deep
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Sweetwater
Commitment to Life
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Save Christmas
Murder at Yellowstone City
Every Last One of Them
Crime Story
Audrey
Stars in the House
Astronaut
Daughter of the Wolf
Polar
The Last Laugh
Asher
Bayou Caviar
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Book Club
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Spielberg
Shots Fired
Madoff
Zipper
Your Family or Mine
Squatters
The Real History of Science Fiction
Caserta Palace Dream
Cas & Dylan
Paranoia
Milius
Very Good Girls
Casting By
Coma
No
The Two Million Year Old Boy
Bubble Guppies
RED
Piranha 3D
Jaws: The Inside Story
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Parenthood
The Lightkeepers
Leaves of Grass
My Life in Ruins
The Shark Is Still Working
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
W.
America Betrayed
Tin Man
Ocean of Fear
Spielberg on Spielberg
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
The Dish on Dolls