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.
Awards & recognition
- BAFTA Award — Best Actor in a Leading Role · 1979
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1978
- Golden Globe Award — Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy · 1978
- David di Donatello — Best Foreign Actor
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1996 · nominated
- Golden Raspberry Award — Worst Actor · 1981 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1978 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Bewitched
Stand by Me
Jaws
Spielberg
Bubble Guppies
The Graduate
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Parenthood
Weeds
The Johnstown Flood
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Family Guy
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Quiz Show
Audrey
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Milius
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Coast to Coast
In Search of Peace
Mr. Holland's Opus
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
American Graffiti
The Real History of Science Fiction
Sweetwater
Casting By
Fail Safe
What About Bob?
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Goodbye Girl
Saturday Night Live
Gidget
RED
Tin Man
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Gunsmoke
James and the Giant Peach
Postcards from the Edge
Dillinger
The American President
Stakeout
Polar
Madoff
The Daily Show
Let It Ride
Coma
Cas & Dylan
Night Falls on Manhattan
Lost in Yonkers
Prisoner of Honor