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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
Polar
Stand by Me
The Graduate
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
The American President
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Night Falls on Manhattan
Book Club
RED
Hello Down There
Murder at Yellowstone City
James and the Giant Peach
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Very Good Girls
Daughter of the Wolf
In the Teeth of Jaws
Karen
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Jaws
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
The Last Laugh
Every Last One of Them
Happiness Isn't Everything
The Education of Max Bickford
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Mr. Holland's Opus
Stakeout
Lansky
Let It Ride
The Buddy System
Ocean of Fear
American Graffiti
Crime Story
Another Stakeout
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Coast to Coast
Production Credits
Quiz Show
Murder at Yellowstone City
Every Last One of Them
Crime Story
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