Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
October 29, 1947 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss
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.
Acting
Richard Dreyfuss has 185 acting credits
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2018
2014
2013
2010
2009
The Lightkeepers
2009
as Seth
Leaves of Grass
2009
as Pug Rothbaum
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
My Life in Ruins
2009
as Irv Gideon
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
as Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
as Self
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
as Self
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
as Alexander Haig
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
as Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
The Education of Max Bickford (TV)
2001
as Max Bickford
In Search of Peace
2001
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
as Micah Donnelly
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
as Self
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
as Antonio Bolivar
2000
1999
1998
1997
The Wonderful World of Disney (TV)
1997
as Unknown Role
The View (TV)
1997
as Self
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
as Narrator (voice)
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
Oliver Twist
1997
as Fagin
HARDtalk (TV)
1997
as Unknown Role
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
as Sam Vigoda
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997
as Self
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
as Self
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997
as Self
