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Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss

Acting
Born: Oct 29, 1947
From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits: 30 titles

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.

Filmography

Title Character Year Rating
Waltzing with Brando Seymour Kraft 2025 5.875
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony Narrator (voice) 2022 6.9
My Life in Ruins Irv Gideon 2009 6.149
Leaves of Grass Pug Rothbaum 2009 6.0
W. Dick Cheney 2008 6.164
Poseidon Richard Nelson 2006 5.872
Who Is Cletis Tout? Micah Donnelly 2001 5.797
Fail Safe President 2000 6.937
Krippendorf's Tribe Prof. Krippendorf 1998 4.588
James and the Giant Peach Centipede (voice) 1996 6.591
Mr. Holland's Opus Glenn Holland 1995 6.975
The American President Senator Rumson 1995 6.534
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein Self 1994 8.8
Another Stakeout Det. Chris Lecce 1993 5.5
What About Bob? Dr. Leo Marvin 1991 6.884
Postcards from the Edge Dr. Frankenthal 1990 6.619
Always Pete Sandich 1989 6.236
Moon Over Parador Jack Noah 1988 5.866
Tin Men Bill 'BB' Babowsky 1987 6.331
Stakeout Det. Chris Lecce 1987 6.5
Citizen Steve Jedediah 1987 6.0
Stand by Me The Writer 1986 7.838
Down and Out in Beverly Hills Dave Whiteman 1986 5.903
Whose Life Is It Anyway? Ken Harrison 1981 7.049
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Roy Neary 1977 7.35
Victory at Entebbe Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu 1976 5.12
Jaws Hooper 1975 7.682
Inserts Boy Wonder 1975 5.717
American Graffiti Curt Henderson 1973 7.041
Catch-22 Yossarian 1973 6.667
Quick Facts
Known forActing
Credits30
Born1947
FromBrooklyn, New York …