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Richard Dreyfuss
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An American actor best known for starring in a number of 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Dreyfuss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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An American actor best known for starring in a number of 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Dreyfuss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars
Gunsmoke
The Frank Skinner Show
Parenthood
Family Guy
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
The Graduate
Stand by Me
Polar
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
Night Falls on Manhattan
Book Club
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
RED
Hello Down There
James and the Giant Peach
Murder at Yellowstone City
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Daughter of the Wolf
Very Good Girls
In the Teeth of Jaws
Karen
Jaws
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
The Last Laugh
Happiness Isn't Everything
Every Last One of Them
Stakeout
The Education of Max Bickford
Mr. Holland's Opus
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Let It Ride
American Graffiti
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Lansky
Another Stakeout
The Buddy System
Crime Story
Coast to Coast
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Ocean of Fear
Production Credits
Murder at Yellowstone City
Crime Story
Quiz Show
Every Last One of Them
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