Richard Dreyfuss
An American actor best known for starring in a number of 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. Dreyfuss 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
Acting
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday
10/29/1947
Stand by Me
7.9
Poseidon
5.8
Jaws
7.7
Mr. Holland's Opus
7
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
6.6
W.
6.2
James and the Giant Peach
6.6
American Graffiti
7
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7.4
What About Bob?
6.9
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
8.5
Tin Men
6.3
Stakeout
6.5
Always
6.3
Victory at Entebbe
5
Fail Safe
6.9
My Life in Ruins
6.1
Catch-22
5
Postcards from the Edge
6.6
Krippendorf's Tribe
4.6
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
7.1
Inserts
6
Another Stakeout
5.5
The American President
6.5
Who Is Cletis Tout?
5.7
Leaves of Grass
6
Moon Over Parador
5.7
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
5.9
Citizen Steve
5.7
Lost in Yonkers
6.4
Dillinger
6.6
Nuts
6.3
The Competition
6.1
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
0
The Big Fix
5.7
Hello Down There
5.9
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
5.8
The Goodbye Girl
6.9
Piranha 3D
5.4
The Buddy System
4.7
Night Falls on Manhattan
6.3
RED
6.7
Mad Dog Time
5.5
Once Around
6
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
7.1
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
6.2
Oliver Twist
6.2
Silent Fall
5.2
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
0
The Sentinel
6.1
Silver City
6.1
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
6.9
The Lightkeepers
6
The Day Reagan Was Shot
6.4
Let It Ride
6.3
The Crew
5.5
Very Good Girls
5.8
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
7.4
Lansky
5.5
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"
7.1
Frank Capra's American Dream
6.2
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
7.8
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
5
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
7.5
Paranoia
5.7
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
7.5
In the Teeth of Jaws
8
Cas & Dylan
6.1
The Two Million Year Old Boy
0
Murder at Yellowstone City
5.5
Prisoner of Honor
6.2
The Young Runaways
6
Sweetwater
7.1
The Second Coming of Suzanne
2.6
Waking Sleeping Beauty
7.2
Squatters
6
Coast to Coast
7
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
8
The Shadow of a Gunman
0
The Graduate
7.6
The Making of 'Jaws'
6.7
Audrey
7.2
The Last Word
2.5
Zipper
5.5
Milius
7
Me
0
Caserta Palace Dream
2
Save Christmas
0
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
0
Valley of the Dolls
6
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
0
Night of 100 Stars II
8
Jaws: The Inside Story
7.3
America Betrayed
6
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
6.3
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
0
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
7.8
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
9
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
6.8
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
0
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
6.7
Spielberg
7.6
Book Club
6.2
Bayou Caviar
4.5
Asher
5.8
The Universal Story
7.7
Ocean of Fear
0
The Last Laugh
5.4
Polar
6.3
Daughter of the Wolf
5.5
Astronaut
6.2
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
6
And the Oscar Goes To...
7
New England Our Way
0
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
6
The Johnstown Flood
6
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
6.5
In Search of Peace
6.5
The John Garfield Story
8
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
6
Manassas: End of Innocence
0
Every Last One of Them
5.3
Crime Story
4
Two for the Money
0
Casting By
7.1
Lincoln
7.2
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
6.5
Liberian Girl
0