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 (11)
Book Club
as George
Paranoia
as Frank Cassidy
RED
as Alexander Dunning
W.
as Dick Cheney
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)
The American President
as Senator Rumson
What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin
Nuts
as Aaron Levinsky
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
Jaws
as Hooper