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Richard Dreyfuss

  • Born Oct. 29, 1947
  • Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
  • 79 years old

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 …

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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.

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Acting (132)

Hooper

Alexander Dunning

The Writer

Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) / Richard Dreyfuss (voice)

Roy Neary

Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

Porter

Matthew Boyd

Richard Nelson

Curt Henderson

Centipede (voice)

Warren Schiff

Dr. Leo Marvin

Frank Cassidy

George

Senator Rumson

Dick Cheney

Pete Sandich

Pug Rothbaum

Det. Chris Lecce

Glenn Holland

Danny

Irv Gideon

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Father

The Player

Dr. Frankenthal

Dave Whiteman

Det. Chris Lecce

Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)

Mystic Man

Gilliam T. Blount

Elliot Garfield

Buddy Green

George Hiller

Avi

Seamus

Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)

Sam Vigoda

Bill 'BB' Babowsky

Aaron Levinsky

Baby Face Nelson

Gearshon Gorofsky

Fagin

Jay Trotter

Edgar

Scoop the Snowman (voice)

Prof. Krippendorf

Jack Noah

President

Dr. Jake Rainer

Chuck Raven

Micah Donnelly

Sam Sharpe

Professor Hillside

Lud

Murphy

David Silverman

Ken Harrison

Captain Acrab

Vic

Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

Boy Wonder

Narrator (voice)

Yuri

Louie Kurnitz

Moses Wine

Arlen Cox

Ben Myers

Bernie Madoff

Maurice Podoloff

Duddy

Meyer Lansky

Angus

Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

Dr. Cas Pepper

Seth

Paul Dietrich

Seymour Kraft

Harold Webster

Col. Picquart

Joe

Alexander Haig

Louis

Jedediah

Narrator (voice)

Antonio Bolivar

Clavius

Narrator

Tony Injijikian

Barnaby Pierce

William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)

Larry

Ben Jr.

Terry

Yossarian

Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

David Rowe III

Theodore Roosevelt

Max Bickford

narrator

Luigi Vanvitelli

Narrator

Narrator (voice)

narrator

Tommy Owen

Morris Gap

Narrator

Narrator

Greg

Narrator (voice)

Jerry Hamburger

Winston Jones

Narrator

Santa

Voice of Theodore Roosevelt

Narrator

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Appearances (46)

Self

David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

Self

Self

Self

Self - Actor

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Self

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Self

Self

Self

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Self

Self - Guest

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Self

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Self (archive footage)

Self

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Self - Actor

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Self

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Self (archive footage)

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Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)

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Self