Richard Dreyfuss

Born on Wed, October 29, 1947

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.

Jaws
as Hooper
Polar
as Porter
The Graduate
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self
RED
as Alexander Dunning
Stand by Me
as The Writer
The John Garfield Story
as Self
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as David u0027Daveu0027 Whiteman (archive footage)
Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd
American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson