Richard Dreyfuss

Also Credited As:

Richard Stephan Dreyfus
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Biography

Thanks to his uncanny ability to make annoyingly vain, pompous, whiny or supercilious characters seem both heroic and likable, he rose to the top of the Hollywood heap with memorable turns in "American Graffiti" (1973), "Jaws" (1975) and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977). Though he was the epitome of cockiness on screen, there was always something reassuring about his presence, though he did gain the dubious off-screen reputation for …
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Job Title

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Other

Born

Richard Stephan Dreyfus on October 29, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

LATEST CREDITS

Prisoner of Honor

Lieutenant Colonel Picquart

Lost in Yonkers

Louie

Silent Fall

Jack Rainer

The Class of the 20th Century

Host

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Alexander Haig

The Great American History Quiz

Host

Funny, You Don't Look 200

Host

Mr. Dreyfuss Goes to Washington

Host

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Antonio Bolivar

Hollywood Loves the Piano

Narration

Oliver Twist

Fagin

In the Wild: The Galapagos Islands With Richard Dreyfuss

Presenter

Moon Over Parador

Jack Noah

Mr. Holland's Opus

Glenn Holland

Another Stakeout

Chris Lecce

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Ken Harrison

Mad Dog Time

Vic

The Crew

Bobby Bartellemeo

The Competition

Paul Dietrich

Krippendorf's Tribe

Krippendorf

Tin Men

B B

American Chronicles

Narration (Pilot/Premiere )

Inserts

Boy Wonder

From the Files of the Innocence Project: Marvin Anderson

Host

The Goodbye Girl

Elliot Garfield