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Richard Dreyfuss
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Richard Dreyfuss 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. Dreyfuss 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.
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Richard Dreyfuss 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. Dreyfuss 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.
Known For
Tony Awards
Family Guy
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Big Valley
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars
Gunsmoke
The Frank Skinner Show
Parenthood
The Real History of Science Fiction
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Weeds
Occasional Wife
Hey Landlord!
Bubble Guppies
The Wonderful World of Disney
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Lincoln
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Stand by Me
Polar
The Graduate
The American President
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Book Club
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Night Falls on Manhattan
RED
Murder at Yellowstone City
James and the Giant Peach
Hello Down There
Daughter of the Wolf
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Very Good Girls
Karen
In the Teeth of Jaws
Jaws
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Happiness Isn't Everything
The Last Laugh
Every Last One of Them
The Education of Max Bickford
Crime Story
Ocean of Fear
Another Stakeout
Lansky
Mr. Holland's Opus
Let It Ride
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Coast to Coast
American Graffiti
Stakeout
The Buddy System
The Day Reagan Was Shot
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Production Credits
Every Last One of Them
Murder at Yellowstone City
Crime Story
Quiz Show
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