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Richard Dreyfuss

Birth name: Richard Stephen Dreyfus

Birth date: 29.10.1947

American leading man who has played his fair share of irritating pests and brash, ambitious hustlers, Richard Dreyfuss worked his way up through bit parts (The Graduate (1967), for one) and TV before gaining attention with his portrayal of Baby Face Nelson in John Milius' Dillinger (1973). He gained prominence as a college-bound young man in American Graffiti (1973) and as a nervy Jewish kid with high hopes in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974). By the latter part of the 1970s Dreyfuss was established as a major star, playing leads (and alter-egos) for Steven Spielberg in two of the top-grossing films of the that decade: Jaws (1975) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He won a Best Actor Oscar in his first romantic lead as an out-of-work actor in The Goodbye Girl (1977). Dreyfuss also produced and starred in the entertaining private eye movie The Big Fix (1978). After a brief lull in the early 1980s, a well-publicized drug problem and a string of box-office disappointments (The Competition (1980), Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981), The Buddy System (1984)), a clean and sober Dreyfuss re-established himself in the mid-'80s as one of Hollywood's more engaging leads. He co-starred with Bette Midler and Nick Nolte in Paul Mazursky's popular Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986). That same year he provided the narration and appeared in the opening and closing "bookends" of Rob Reiner's nostalgic Stand by Me (1986). He quickly followed that with Nuts (1987) opposite Barbra Streisand, Barry Levinson's Tin Men (1987) in a memorable teaming with Danny DeVito and Stakeout (1987) with Emilio Estevez. Dreyfuss continued working steadily through the end of the 1980s and into the 1990s, most notably in Mazursky's farce Moon Over Parador (1988), Spielberg's Always (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990). He appeared as a member of an ensemble that included Holly Hunter, Gena Rowlands and Danny Aiello in the romantic comedy Once Around (1991) and as a pop psychiatrist, the author of several successful self-help books, who is driven to the edge by nutcase Bill Murray in the popular comedy What About Bob? (1991). Dreyfuss has also remained active in the theater ("Death and Maiden", 1992) and on TV. He returned to features in the adaptation of Neil Simon's play Lost in Yonkers (1993) and followed with a supporting turn as the querulous political opponent in The American President (1995). Dreyfuss received some of the best notices of his career as a determined, inspiring music teacher coping with a deaf son and the demands of his career in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995).

Filmography

# The Girls' Guide to Hunting & Fishing (2007) (post-production) # Poseidon (2006) .... Richard Nelson # Unsung (2006) (voice) .... Narrator # Copshop (2004) (TV) .... Leonard Manzo # Silver City (2004) .... Chuck Raven # Coast to Coast (2004) (TV) .... Barnaby Pierce # The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001) (TV) .... Alexander Haig # Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (2001) (V) (voice) .... Scoop the Snowman (Narrator) ... aka Rudolph & the Island of Misfit Toys # "The Education of Max Bickford" (2001) TV Series .... Max Bickford # Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001) .... Micah Donnelly # The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001) .... Antonio Bolivar ... aka Viejo que leía novelas de amor, El (Spain) ... aka Vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour, Le (France) # The Crew (2000/I) .... Bobby Bartellemeo/Narrator # Fail Safe (2000) (TV) .... President # Lansky (1999) (TV) .... Meyer Lansky # Krippendorf's Tribe (1998) .... Prof. James Krippendorf # Oliver Twist (1997) (TV) .... Fagin # The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997) (TV) (voice) .... Narrator ... aka Jack London's The Call of the Wild ... aka Jack London's The Call of the Wild Dog of the Yukon # Night Falls on Manhattan (1997) .... Sam Vigoda # Mad Dog Time (1996) .... Vic ... aka Trigger Happy (video title) # James and the Giant Peach (1996) (voice) .... Centipede # Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) .... Glenn Holland # The American President (1995) .... Senator Bob Rumson # The Last Word (1995) .... Larry ... aka Cosa Nostra: The Last Word # Silent Fall (1994) .... Dr. Jake Rainer # Another Stakeout (1993) .... Detective Chris Lecce ... aka Stakeout 2 ... aka The Lookout # Lost in Yonkers (1993) .... Louie Kurnitz ... aka Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers # Prisoner of Honor (1991) (TV) .... Col. Picquart # What About Bob? (1991) .... Dr. Leo Marvin # Once Around (1991) .... Sam Sharpe # Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) .... The Player # Postcards from the Edge (1990) .... Doctor Frankenthal # Always (1989) .... Pete Sandich # Let It Ride (1989) .... Jay Trotter # Moon Over Parador (1988) .... Jack Noah/President Alphonse Simms # Nuts (1987) .... Aaron Levinsky # Stakeout (1987) .... Chris Lecce # Tin Men (1987) .... Bill 'BB' Babowsky # Stand by Me (1986) .... The Writer # Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) .... David 'Dave' Whiteman # The Buddy System (1984) .... Joe # Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) .... Ken Harrison # The Competition (1980) .... Paul Dietrich # Othello (1979) (V) .... Iago # The Big Fix (1978) .... Moses Wine # "Saturday Night Live" ... aka SNL ... aka SNL 25 (USA: new title) - Episode #3.19 (1978) TV Episode .... Host # The Goodbye Girl (1977) .... Elliot Garfield ... aka Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl # Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) .... Roy Neary ... aka CE3K (USA: informal short title) ... aka Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Special Edition (USA: reissue title) # Victory at Entebbe (1976) (TV) .... Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu # Jaws (1975) .... Matt Hooper # The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974) .... Clavius ... aka Suzanne # The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) .... Duddy ... aka Apprentissage de Duddy Kravitz, L' (Canada: French title) # Inserts (1974) .... Boy Wonder # "The New Dick Van Dyke Show" - Mr. Dazzle (1973) TV Episode .... Tony Injijikian # American Graffiti (1973) .... Curt Henderson # Dillinger (1973) .... Baby Face Nelson # Catch-22 (1973) (TV) .... Capt. John Yossarian # "A Touch of Grace" - The Accident (1973) TV Episode .... Donald # "Gunsmoke" ... aka Gun Law (UK) ... aka Marshal Dillon (USA: rerun title) - This Golden Land (1973) TV Episode .... Gearshon Gorofsky # "The Mod Squad" - The Night Holds Terror (1973) TV Episode .... Caleb Dunne - Mother of Sorrow (1970) TV Episode .... Curtis Bell # Shadow of a Gunman (1972) (TV) # Two for the Money (1972) (TV) .... Morris Gap # "The Young Lawyers" - Down at the House of Truth, Visiting (1971) TV Episode .... Mike Chester # Untold Damage (1971) (TV) .... Greg # "Room 222" - The Valediction (1970) TV Episode .... Stan Siebert # "The Bold Ones: The New Doctors" ... aka The New Doctors - No Harm to the Patient (1970) TV Episode .... Dr. Tolliver # "The New People" - Panic in the Sand (1969) TV Episode .... Owen Rudd # Hello Down There (1969) .... Harold Webster ... aka Sub-A-Dub-Dub (USA: reissue title) # "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir" - Buried on Page One (1969) TV Episode .... Mark Finlay-editor of the Schooner Bay Beacon # "Felony Squad" - The Last Man in the World (1968) TV Episode .... Herbie Aroon # "Judd for the Defense" - Weep the Hunter Home (1968) TV Episode .... Larry Corning # The Young Runaways (1968) .... Terry # The Graduate (1967) (uncredited) .... Boarding House Resident # Valley of the Dolls (1967) (uncredited) .... Assistant stage manager # "The Second Hundred Years" - No Experience Necessary (1967) TV Episode .... Ben Jr. # "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" - My Son, the Actor (1967) TV Episode # "Hey, Landlord" - Testing, One Two (1967) TV Episode .... Harold - Big Brother Is Watching You (1967) TV Episode .... Warren # "That Girl" - Paper Hats & Everything (1967) TV Episode .... Waiter # "Occasional Wife" - Fair Play for Gypsies (1967) TV Episode .... Rudolph # "The Big Valley" - Boy Into Man (1967) TV Episode .... Lud Akley # "Bewitched" - Man's Best Friend (1966) TV Episode .... Rodney # "Gidget" - Ego-a-Go-Go (1966) TV Episode .... Durf The Drag # "Ben Casey" - Francini? Who Is Francini? (1965) TV Episode # "Karen" (1964) TV Series .... David Rowe III