
Richard Dreyfuss
Actor
Born: October 29, 1947 (78 years old)
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography (115)
- Stand by Me (1986, ★ 7.8)
- Jaws (1975, ★ 7.7)
- Mr. Holland's Opus (1995, ★ 7)
- Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (2022, ★ 6.9)
- James and the Giant Peach (1996, ★ 6.6)
- American Graffiti (1973, ★ 7)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, ★ 7.4)
- What About Bob? (1991, ★ 6.9)
- Stakeout (1987, ★ 6.5)
- Fail Safe (2000, ★ 6.9)
- Postcards from the Edge (1990, ★ 6.6)
- Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981, ★ 7)
- The American President (1995, ★ 6.5)
- Dillinger (1973, ★ 6.6)
- The Goodbye Girl (1977, ★ 6.9)
- RED (2010, ★ 6.7)
- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003, ★ 7.1)
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001, ★ 6.6)
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1991, ★ 6.9)
- The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997, ★ 7.4)
- The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001, ★ 6.4)
- Let It Ride (1989, ★ 6.4)
- The Shark Is Still Working (2009, ★ 7.2)
- The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005, ★ 7.8)
- Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me (2000, ★ 7.5)
- A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004, ★ 7.5)
- Sweetwater (2023, ★ 6.9)
- Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009, ★ 7.2)
- The Graduate (1967, ★ 7.6)
- Coast to Coast (2004, ★ 6.6)