Richard Dreyfuss
Born 1947
Known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, American Graffiti.
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.
Movie Credits
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (2022)
Crime Story (2021)
Astronaut (2019)
Squatters (2014)
The Lightkeepers (2009)
Coast to Coast (2003)
The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
The Crew (2000)
Lansky (1999)
Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
Oliver Twist (1997)
Mad Dog Time (1996)
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Silent Fall (1994)
Another Stakeout (1993)
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Once Around (1991)
Always (1989)
Let It Ride (1989)
Moon Over Parador (1988)
Stakeout (1987)
Tin Men (1987)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
The Competition (1980)
The Big Fix (1978)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Inserts (1975)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
American Graffiti (1973)
Into the Deep (2025)
Every Last One of Them (2021)
The Last Laugh (2019)
Cas & Dylan (2013)
Jaws: The Inside Story (2010)
My Life in Ruins (2009)
Fail Safe (2000)
What About Bob? (1991)
Nuts (1987)
Asher (2018)
Bayou Caviar (2018)
Spielberg (2017)
Zipper (2015)
Leaves of Grass (2009)
The Shark Is Still Working (2009)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Citizen Steve (1987)
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
Jaws (1975)
The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974)
Poseidon (2006)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (2001)
Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
Daughter of the Wolf (2019)
Very Good Girls (2013)
The Last Word (1995)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
Sweetwater (2023)
Murder at Yellowstone City (2022)
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
Silver City (2004)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Hello Down There (1969)
Waltzing with Brando (2024)
Paranoia (2013)
RED (2010)
Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)
Audrey (2020)
Book Club (2018)
Milius (2013)
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
W. (2008)
Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)
Dillinger (1973)
The Making of Jaws (1995)
The American President (1995)
Piranha 3D (2010)
