
Richard Dreyfuss
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Biography
Richard Dreyfuss 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. 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

Tony Awards

Family Guy

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Big Valley

The Daily Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Saturday Night Live

The Oscars

Gunsmoke

The Frank Skinner Show

Parenthood

The Real History of Science Fiction

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

Weeds

Occasional Wife

Hey Landlord!

Bubble Guppies

The Wonderful World of Disney

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Lincoln

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Polar

Stand by Me

The Graduate

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

The American President

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Book Club

Night Falls on Manhattan

RED

James and the Giant Peach

Murder at Yellowstone City

Hello Down There

Very Good Girls

Daughter of the Wolf

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

Karen

In the Teeth of Jaws

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Jaws

The Last Laugh

Happiness Isn't Everything

Every Last One of Them

Mr. Holland's Opus

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony

Crime Story

The Education of Max Bickford

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Coast to Coast

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Stakeout

Ocean of Fear

Let It Ride

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

The Buddy System

Another Stakeout

Lansky

American Graffiti
Production Credits
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