

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


Once Around

Postcards from the Edge

Always

Let It Ride

Moon Over Parador

Nuts

Stakeout

Tin Men

Citizen Steve

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

The Buddy System

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

The Competition

The Big Fix

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Goodbye Girl

Victory at Entebbe

Jaws
