Richard Dreyfuss
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PERSONAL DATA OF RICHARD DREYFUSS
Age: 73 years old
Born in: New York, USA
Born on: 29/10/1947
BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD DREYFUSS
Actor. Born into a Russian-Jewish family, he moved to Los Angeles when he was still small and began acting in the theater with the Beverly Hills Jewish Center at the age of eleven. After years on the stage, he made his film debut in 1967, with a small part in the famous film “The Graduate” by Mike Nichols with Dustin Hoffmann. He then switches to television and decides not to accept more small parts from Hollywood. He returned to the big screen in 1973 and gained public attention in the role of Baby Face Nelson in John Millus ‘”Dillinger” and confirmed himself as a rising star with his intense performance in George Lucas’ “American Graffiti” (1973). His popularity takes off thanks to the success of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” where he plays the role of the oceanographer Hooper and is confirmed with “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977) by Spielberg himself. Also in 1977 he won the Oscar for best leading actor for the role of Elliot Garfield in the film “Goodbye my love” by Herbert Ross, a film that also earned him the BAFTA and the David di Donatello as best foreign actor. After about a decade that will see him in marginal roles or in films of little success, he will come back into vogue thanks to the comedy “Up and down Beverly Hills” by Paul Mazursky and with the following “Tin-Man – Two cheaters with a lady” (1987) by Barry Levinson, “Always” by Steve Spielberg, “Postcards from Hell” by Mike Nichols. He reaches the apex of his artistic career playing the role of comedian of a traveling theater company in “Rosencratz and Guildenstern are dead” (1990) by Tom Stoppard, presented at the Venice Film Festival and awarded with the Golden Lion. In the nineties he made many films including John Badham’s “Eye to the Witness” (1992), Stephen Hereck’s “Goodbye Mr. Holland” (1995), Larry Bishop’s “Time for Crazy Dogs” (1996). In 2000 he was in the cast of Stephen Frears’ “Foolproof” alongside George Clooney and in 2001 he shot “Who is Cletis Tout?” by Chris Verwiel. Between 2000 and 2008 he returned to television to shoot some series including the part of the protagonist of the series “The Education of Max Bickford”. In 2006 he is back in Hollywood with the film “Poseidon” directed by Wolfgang Petersen and with “W.” (2008) by Oliver Stone. In 2009, however, he is next to Edward Norton in “Leaves of Grass” by Tim Blake Nelson.
THE MOST RECENT FILMS BY RICHARD DREYFUSS
Daughter of the Wolf
Role: Actor
Year: 2019
One last laugh (The Last Laugh)
Role: Actor
Year: 2019
Asher
Role: Actor
Year: 2018
Book Club – Anything can happen (Book Club)
Role: Actor
Year: 2018 Go to the complete Filmography
RICHARD DREYFUSS’S MOST RECENT TV SERIES
Shots Fired
Role: Actor
Year: 2017 Go to all TV series
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF RICHARD DREYFUSS
Drama: 30% Comedy: 24% Thriller: 10% Detective: 6%
THE STATISTICS OF RICHARD DREYFUSS ON COMINGSOON.IT
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RECENT ROLES PLAYED BY RICHARD DREYFUSS
| Movie | Role |
|---|---|
Daughter of the Wolf | The father |
One last laugh | Buddy Green |
Asher | Avi |
Book Club – Anything can happen | George |
Zipper | George Hiller |
Squatters | David Silverman |
No – Days of the Rainbow | himself photographic archive |
Budding brothers | Pug Rothbaum |
Piranha 3D | Dr. Gorden Raybanks |
My big fat Greek holidays | Irv |
W. | Dick Cheney |
Poseidon |
