Richard Dreyfuss

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.

Known For

Jaws

as Hooper

RED

as Alexander Dunning

Stand by Me

as The Writer

Family Guy

as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)

Family Guy

as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

as Roy Neary

The Graduate

as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

Polar

as Porter

Piranha 3D

as Matthew Boyd

Poseidon

as Richard Nelson