

Richard Dreyfuss
Acting
October 29, 1947
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.
The Filmography


The Making of 'American Graffiti'

Krippendorf's Tribe

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

Oliver Twist

Night Falls on Manhattan

Frank Capra's American Dream

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

Prisoner of Honor
