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Richard Dreyfuss

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.

Filmography

2021
Every Last One of Them

as Murphy

Movie
2019
Polar

as Porter

Movie
2013
Paranoia

as Frank Cassidy

Movie
2010
RED

as Alexander Dunning

Movie
2010
Piranha 3D

as Matthew Boyd

Movie
2006
Poseidon

as Richard Nelson

Movie
1996
James and the Giant Peach

as Centipede (voice)

Movie
1986
Stand by Me

as The Writer

Movie
1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills

as Dave Whiteman

Movie
1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

as Roy Neary

Movie
1977
The Sentinel

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

Movie
1975
Jaws

as Hooper

Movie
1967
The Graduate

as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

Movie
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

as Self - Guest

TV Show