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Richard Dreyfuss
0 FOLLOWERS • 53 CREDITS • OCT 29, 1947 • 76
Biography
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.
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Known For
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Family Guy
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
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The Daily Show
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Saturday Night Live
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The Oscars
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Gunsmoke
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The Real History of Science Fiction
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Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
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Weeds
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Occasional Wife
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Hey Landlord!
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The Wonderful World of Disney
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Waking Sleeping Beauty
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The Graduate
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R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
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Stand by Me
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Polar
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The American President
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
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Night Falls on Manhattan
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Book Club
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RED
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Hello Down There
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Murder at Yellowstone City
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James and the Giant Peach
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Daughter of the Wolf
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The Making of 'American Graffiti'
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Karen
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills
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Jaws
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The Last Laugh
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Every Last One of Them
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Happiness Isn't Everything
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The Day Reagan Was Shot
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Crime Story
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American Graffiti
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Let It Ride
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Ocean of Fear
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
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Coast to Coast
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Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
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The Buddy System
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Lansky
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Another Stakeout
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Stakeout
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The Education of Max Bickford
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