Richard Dreyfuss
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
Jaws
as Hooper 1975
RED
as Alexander Dunning 2010
Stand by Me
as The Writer 1986
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary 1977
The Graduate
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited) 1967
Polar
as Porter 2019
Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd 2010
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson 2006
American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson 1973
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice) 1996
Paranoia
as Frank Cassidy 2013
What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin 1991
Book Club
as George 2018
The American President
as Senator Rumson 1995
W.
as Dick Cheney 2008
Always
as Pete Sandich 1989
Very Good Girls
as Danny 2013