Actor
Richard Dreyfuss
October 29, 1947 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Notable work
7.7Jaws (1975)
as Hooper
6.7RED (2010)
as Alexander Dunning
7.8Stand by Me (1986)
as The Writer
7.4Family Guy (1999)
as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) and as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
7.4Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
as Roy Neary
7.6The Graduate (1967)
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
6.4Polar (2019)
as Porter
5.4Piranha 3D (2010)
as Matthew Boyd
5.9Poseidon (2006)
as Richard Nelson
7American Graffiti (1973)
as Curt Henderson
6.6James and the Giant Peach (1996)
as Centipede (voice)
7.5Weeds (2005)
as Warren Schiff
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