Richard Dreyfuss
Born: 1947-10-29
• Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Waltzing with Brando
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Into the Deep
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Sweetwater
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Save Christmas
Murder at Yellowstone City
Every Last One of Them
Crime Story
Audrey
Astronaut
Daughter of the Wolf
Polar
The Last Laugh
Asher
Bayou Caviar
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Book Club
Spielberg
Zipper
Squatters
Caserta Palace Dream
Cas & Dylan
Paranoia
Milius
Very Good Girls
Casting By
The Two Million Year Old Boy
RED
Piranha 3D
Jaws: The Inside Story
The Lightkeepers
Leaves of Grass
Waking Sleeping Beauty
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
Ocean of Fear
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
Poseidon
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Silver City
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Coast to Coast
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
The John Garfield Story
The Johnstown Flood
Manassas: End of Innocence
The Day Reagan Was Shot
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
In Search of Peace
Who Is Cletis Tout?
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
The Crew
Fail Safe
Lansky
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Krippendorf's Tribe
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Frank Capra's American Dream
Oliver Twist
Night Falls on Manhattan
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
In the Teeth of Jaws
Mad Dog Time
The Universal Story
James and the Giant Peach
Mr. Holland's Opus
The Making of 'Jaws'
The American President
The Last Word
Silent Fall
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Another Stakeout
Lost in Yonkers
No Image
Lincoln
Prisoner of Honor
What About Bob?
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Once Around
Postcards from the Edge
Always
Let It Ride
Moon Over Parador
Nuts
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville