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 (22)
Into the Deep
as Seamus
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar
Daughter of the Wolf
as Father
Book Club
as George
Spielberg
as Self
Paranoia
as Frank Cassidy
RED
as Alexander Dunning
My Life in Ruins
as Irv Gideon
W.
as Dick Cheney
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Glenn Holland
The American President
as Senator Rumson
What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin
Always
as Pete Sandich
Let It Ride
as Jay Trotter
Nuts
as Aaron Levinsky
Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
The Goodbye Girl
as Elliot Garfield
Jaws
as Hooper
American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson