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Richard Dreyfuss

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Richard Dreyfuss

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Also known as Richard Stephen Dreyfuss

American actor

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Richard Dreyfuss is an American actor, television actor, film actor, and novelist. Born in Brooklyn, New York City, on October 29, 1947, he began his work period in 1964. He is a citizen of the United States and resides in Encinitas. Dreyfuss has three children and is married to Jeramie Rain. He has a sibling named Lorin Dreyfuss and was educated at Beverly Hills High School.

His notable works include *American Graffiti*, *Down And Out In Beverly Hills*, *The Lincoln-Douglas Debates*, *America Betrayed*, and *The two Georges*. Dreyfuss has received the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has been nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor.

Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, Last.fm, TMDb, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
29 October 1947
Works
9

Top works

  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  • American Graffiti
  • Down And Out In Beverly Hills
  • America Betrayed
  • The two Georges

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Film & TV

Acting · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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…

Known for

  • Waltzing with Brando — Seymour Kraft2025
  • Into the Deep — Seamus2025
  • Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self2025
  • Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life — Self2023
  • Sweetwater — Maurice Podoloff2023
  • Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)2023
  • Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony — Narrator (voice)2022
  • Murder at Yellowstone City — Edgar2022
  • Save Christmas — Santa2022
  • Every Last One of Them — Murphy2021

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1947

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
34
Total plays
1,024

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

    · 1977 · cited 63,391x

  2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    · 2009 · cited 59,258x

  3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

    · 2009 · cited 47,665x

  4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

    · 2009 · cited 47,292x

  5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,635x

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Encyclopedic overview

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (/ˈdraɪfəs/ DRY-fəs; né Dreyfus; born October 29, 1947) is an American actor. He emerged from the New Hollywood wave of American cinema, finding fame with a succession of leading man parts in the 1970s. He has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and a Golden Globe.

Dreyfuss rose to prominence with starring roles in American Graffiti (1973), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), Jaws (1975), and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Elliot Garfield in the 1977 romantic comedy The Goodbye Girl, and was Oscar-nominated in the same category for his title role in the 1995 drama Mr. Holland's Opus. His other film credits include The Competition (1980), Stand by Me (1986), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Stakeout (1987), Nuts (1987), Always (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990), What About Bob? (1991), The American President (1995), Poseidon (2006) , W. (2008), Piranha 3D (2010), and Red (2010).

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