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
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
Poseidon
The Reichen Show
Weeds
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
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
The Education of Max Bickford
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
Where Are They Now?
Lansky
Family Guy
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Krippendorf's Tribe
The Entertainment Biz
The Wonderful World of Disney
The View
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Frank Capra's American Dream
Oliver Twist
HARDtalk
Night Falls on Manhattan
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
In the Teeth of Jaws
Mad Dog Time
E! True Hollywood Story
The Daily Show
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Universal Story
James and the Giant Peach
TFI Friday
Mr. Holland's Opus
The Making of 'Jaws'
The American President
The Frank Skinner Show
The Last Word
Silent Fall
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Inside the Actors Studio
Another Stakeout
Lost in Yonkers
Lincoln
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Prisoner of Honor
What About Bob?
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Once Around
Postcards from the Edge
American Chronicles
Always
Let It Ride
Moon Over Parador
Nuts
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Stakeout
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Tin Men
Citizen Steve
Stand by Me
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Night of 100 Stars II
The Buddy System
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
The Competition
The Big Fix
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Goodbye Girl
The Sentinel
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
Victory at Entebbe
Saturday Night Live
Jaws
Inserts
New England Our Way
The Second Coming of Suzanne
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Me
American Graffiti
Dillinger
Catch-22
A Touch of Grace
The Shadow of a Gunman
Two for the Money
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
Great Performances
Treffpunkte
The New People
Room 222
Hello Down There
The Mod Squad
The Young Runaways
Valley of the Dolls
The Graduate
Judd, for the Defense
The Second Hundred Years
Occasional Wife
Felony Squad
Hey Landlord!
That Girl
Gidget
The Big Valley
Karen
Bewitched
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Ben Casey
Gunsmoke
The Oscars
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Killing Winston Jones
Ocean of Fear
Happiness Isn't Everything