Richard Dreyfuss

FULL NAME	Richard Stephen Dreyfuss
BORN	29 October 1947, Brooklyn, New York, USA
ASSOCIATION	Actor
NATIONALITY	American
HEIGHT	165 cm
REVIEWED ENTRIES	13 (11)
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AVERAGE RATING	3.86

ACTOR FILMOGRAPHY (ONLY REVIEWED ENTRIES)

BIO

Dreyfuss was a highly unlikely movie star for a short period of time from the mid 1970s until the 1980s. His everyday persona and dramatic talent made him easily identifiable, and he often played sympathetic but frustrated characters, in the mould of Dustin Hoffman. After breaking through in George Lucas' American Graffiti, he found mainstream success in the two Steven Spielberg classics Jaws (1975) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), before winning an Academy Award for Best Actor for Herbert Ross' The Goodbye Girl in 1978. A fast visible aging and a demand for a different leading man led to fewer good roles for Dreyfuss during the 1980s and 1990s, but he received rave reviews for Mr. Holland's Opus in 1995.

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