Richard Dreyfuss
Gender: Male
Born: 29th October 1947 (currently 64 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Tin Man, American Chronicles, The Education of Max Bickford, Happiness Isn't Everything, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys, Biography, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys
Movies: Always, American Graffiti, Another Stakeout, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Fail-Safe, James and the Giant Peach, Jaws, Krippendorf's Tribe, Let It Ride, Mad Dog Time, Moon Over Parador, Mr. Holland's Opus, Nuts, Poseidon, The American President, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The Competition, The Goodbye Girl, Tin Men, What About Bob?, Who is Cletis Tout?, Silver City, Oliver Twist, The Crew, Victory at Entebbe, The Big Fix, Lansky, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Inserts, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Stakeout, Silent Fall, Night Falls on Manhattan, Prisoner of Honor, Coast to Coast, My Life In Ruins, The Second Coming of Suzanne, Shadow of a Gunman, The Day Reagan Was Shot, Lost in Yonkers, The Buddy System, W., Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Postcards from the Edge, Piranha 3-D, Red, The Lightkeepers, Valley of the Dolls, Dillinger, The Graduate, Suburban Girl, Stand by Me, Leaves of Grass, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys, Once Around, Hello Down There, Shakespeare High, In Search of Peace: Part 1: 1948-1967, Johnstown Flood, Citizen Stan, America Betrayed, Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude, Lone Star Trixie, Different Kind of Love, The Big Valley
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is 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, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob?, Poseidon, 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.
Dreyfuss was born Richard Stephen Dreyfus in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Norman, an attorney and restaurateur, and Geraldine, a peace activist. Dreyfuss is Jewish. He has commented that he "grew up thinking that Alfred Dreyfus and [he] are of the same family." His father disliked New York City, and moved the family first to Europe, and later to Los Angeles, when Dreyfuss was nine. Dreyfuss attended Beverly Hills High School.
Dreyfuss began
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