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Richard Dreyfuss

Born: 1947-10-29

From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

About: 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.


Film credits:

Stand by Me
The Writer
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Poseidon
Richard Nelson
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Jaws
Hooper
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Mr. Holland's Opus
Glenn Holland
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Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Narrator (voice)
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W.
Dick Cheney
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James and the Giant Peach
Centipede (voice)
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American Graffiti
Curt Henderson
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary
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What About Bob?
Dr. Leo Marvin
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It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
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Tin Men
Bill 'BB' Babowsky
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Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
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Always
Pete Sandich
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Victory at Entebbe
Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
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Fail Safe
President
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My Life in Ruins
Irv Gideon
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Catch-22
Yossarian
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Postcards from the Edge
Dr. Frankenthal
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Krippendorf's Tribe
Prof. Krippendorf
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Waltzing with Brando
Seymour Kraft
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Ken Harrison
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Inserts
Boy Wonder
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Another Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
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The American President
Senator Rumson
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Who Is Cletis Tout?
Micah Donnelly
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Leaves of Grass
Pug Rothbaum
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Moon Over Parador
Jack Noah
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Dave Whiteman
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Citizen Steve
Jedediah
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Lost in Yonkers
Louie Kurnitz
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Dillinger
Baby Face Nelson
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Nuts
Aaron Levinsky
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The Competition
Paul Dietrich
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The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Self
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The Big Fix
Moses Wine
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Hello Down There
Harold Webster
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Duddy
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The Goodbye Girl
Elliot Garfield
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Piranha 3D
Matthew Boyd
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The Buddy System
Joe
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Night Falls on Manhattan
Sam Vigoda
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RED
Alexander Dunning
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Mad Dog Time
Vic
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Once Around
Sam Sharpe
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Antonio Bolivar
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Oliver Twist
Fagin
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Silent Fall
Dr. Jake Rainer
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Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Self
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The Sentinel
Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
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Silver City
Chuck Raven
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Player
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The Lightkeepers
Seth
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The Day Reagan Was Shot
Alexander Haig
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Let It Ride
Jay Trotter
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The Crew
Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
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Very Good Girls
Danny
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The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Narrator (voice)
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Lansky
Meyer Lansky
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The Shark Is Still Working
Self
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Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self - Actor
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Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Theodore Roosevelt
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Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Self
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Paranoia
Frank Cassidy
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A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Narrator
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In the Teeth of Jaws
Self
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Cas & Dylan
Dr. Cas Pepper
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The Two Million Year Old Boy
Narrator
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Murder at Yellowstone City
Edgar
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Prisoner of Honor
Col. Picquart
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The Young Runaways
Terry
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Sweetwater
Maurice Podoloff
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The Second Coming of Suzanne
Clavius
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
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Squatters
David Silverman
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Coast to Coast
Barnaby Pierce
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Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Self
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The Shadow of a Gunman
Tommy Owen
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The Graduate
Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
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The Making of 'Jaws'
Self
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Audrey
Self - Actor
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The Last Word
Larry
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Zipper
George Hiller
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Milius
Self
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Me
Greg
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Caserta Palace Dream
Luigi Vanvitelli
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Save Christmas
Santa
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The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
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Valley of the Dolls
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
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Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Self
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Night of 100 Stars II
Self
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Jaws: The Inside Story
Self
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I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
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America Betrayed
Narrator
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AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
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Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Self
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The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Self
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Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Narrator
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
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Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Self
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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Self
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Spielberg
Self
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Book Club
George
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Bayou Caviar
Yuri
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Asher
Avi
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The Universal Story
Self
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Ocean of Fear
Narrator
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The Last Laugh
Buddy Green
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Polar
Porter
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Daughter of the Wolf
Father
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Astronaut
Angus
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
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New England Our Way
Self
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Scoop the Snowman (voice)
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The Johnstown Flood
narrator
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R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
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In Search of Peace
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
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The John Garfield Story
Self
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The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
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Manassas: End of Innocence
Narrator
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Every Last One of Them
Murphy
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Crime Story
Ben Myers
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Two for the Money
Morris Gap
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Casting By
Self
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Lincoln
William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
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Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
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Into the Deep
Seamus
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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self
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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
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American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Self
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