Richard Dreyfuss
Born October 29, 1947 (Age: 78)
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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.
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.
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Filmography
Book Club
2018
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as George
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Age: 70
Paranoia
2013
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as Frank Cassidy
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Age: 65
Casting By
2012
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as Self
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Age: 65
RED
2010
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as Alexander Dunning
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Age: 62
Piranha 3D
2010
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as Matthew Boyd
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Age: 62
Leaves of Grass
2009
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as Pug Rothbaum
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Age: 61
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
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as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
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Age: 61
My Life in Ruins
2009
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as Irv Gideon
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Age: 61
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
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as Self
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Age: 61
W.
2008
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as Dick Cheney
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Age: 60
Ocean of Fear
2007
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as Narrator
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Age: 59
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
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as Self
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Age: 59
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
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as Self
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Age: 58
The Dish on Dolls
2006
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as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
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Age: 58
Poseidon
2006
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as Richard Nelson
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Age: 58
Silver City
2004
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as Chuck Raven
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Age: 56
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
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as Narrator
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Age: 56
Coast to Coast
2004
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as Barnaby Pierce
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Age: 56
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002
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as Narrator
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Age: 54
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
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as Micah Donnelly
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Age: 53
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000
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as Self
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Age: 52
The Crew
2000
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as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
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Age: 52
Fail Safe
2000
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as President
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Age: 52
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998
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as Narrator
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Age: 50
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
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as Self
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Age: 50
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
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as Prof. Krippendorf
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Age: 50
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 49
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
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as Self
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Age: 49
Oliver Twist
1997
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as Fagin
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Age: 49
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
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as Sam Vigoda
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Age: 49
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997
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as Self
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Age: 49
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
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as Self
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Age: 49
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997
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as Self
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Age: 49
Mad Dog Time
1996
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as Vic
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Age: 49
The Universal Story
1996
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as Self
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Age: 48
James and the Giant Peach
1996
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as Centipede (voice)
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Age: 48
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
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as Glenn Holland
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Age: 48
The American President
1995
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as Senator Rumson
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Age: 48
Silent Fall
1994
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as Dr. Jake Rainer
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Age: 46
Another Stakeout
1993
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as Det. Chris Lecce
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Age: 45
Lost in Yonkers
1993
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as Louie Kurnitz
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Age: 45
No Image
Lincoln
1992
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as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
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Age: 45
Prisoner of Honor
1991
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as Col. Picquart
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Age: 44
What About Bob?
1991
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as Dr. Leo Marvin
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Age: 43
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
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as The Player
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Age: 43
Once Around
1991
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as Sam Sharpe
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Age: 43
Postcards from the Edge
1990
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as Dr. Frankenthal
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Age: 42
Always
1989
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as Pete Sandich
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Age: 42
Let It Ride
1989
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as Jay Trotter
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Age: 41
Moon Over Parador
1988
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as Jack Noah
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Age: 40
Nuts
1987
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as Aaron Levinsky
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Age: 40
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
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as Self
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Age: 39
Stakeout
1987
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as Det. Chris Lecce
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Age: 39
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
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as Self
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Age: 39
Tin Men
1987
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as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
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Age: 39
Citizen Steve
1987
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as Jedediah
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Age: 39
Stand by Me
1986
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as The Writer
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Age: 38
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
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as Dave Whiteman
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Age: 38
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
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as Self
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Age: 37
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
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as Ken Harrison
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Age: 34
The Competition
1980
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as Paul Dietrich
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Age: 33
The Big Fix
1978
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as Moses Wine
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Age: 30
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
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as Roy Neary
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Age: 30
The Goodbye Girl
1977
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as Elliot Garfield
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Age: 30
The Sentinel
1977
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as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
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Age: 29
No Image
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977
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as Self
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Age: 29
No Image
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
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as
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Age: 29
Jaws
1975
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as Hooper
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Age: 27
New England Our Way
1974
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as Self
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Age: 27
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974
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as Clavius
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Age: 26
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
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as Duddy
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Age: 26
Me
1973
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as Greg
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Age: 26
American Graffiti
1973
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as Curt Henderson
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Age: 25
Dillinger
1973
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as Baby Face Nelson
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Age: 25
Catch-22
1973
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as Yossarian
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Age: 25
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972
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as Tommy Owen
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Age: 25
Two for the Money
1972
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as Morris Gap
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Age: 24
Hello Down There
1969
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as Harold Webster
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Age: 21