Birthday: October 29, 1947
Stocky, frequently bespectacled, eventually balding, and prematurely gray, Richard Dreyfuss is an unlikely candidate for a movie star. Even so, he has been one of Hollywood's most versatile, charismatic, and energetic leading men since the mid-'70s. Born in Brooklyn, NY, on October 29, 1947, Dreyfuss moved to Los Angeles with his family when he was nine. There he became friends with Rob ...more- 2001
- Screen Actors Guild
- Best Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
- The Day Reagan Was Shot
- nom
- 2001
- Screen Actors Guild
- Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama
- The Education of Max Bickford (TV Series)
- nom
- 1995
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Actor
- Mr. Holland's Opus
- nom
- 1995
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Mr. Holland's Opus
- nom
- 1978
- British Academy of Film and Television
- Best Actor
- The Goodbye Girl
- win
- Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys
- Scoop the Snowman
- 2009
- My Life in Ruins
- Irv
- 2008
- America Betrayed
- Narrator
- 2008
- Sweetwater
- Abe Saperstein














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