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Richard Dreyfuss
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.
Known For
Jaws
as Hooper
RED
as Alexander Dunning
Stand by Me
as The Writer
Polar
as Porter
Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
The Graduate
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar
