Richard Dreyfuss (natural October 29, 1947) is an American actor. He wwhen natural as a boy of legal help within Brooklyn, New York. He spent his early childhood withwithin Brooklyn & in Bayside, Queens until he moved to Los Angeles with his family at age nine.

Dreyfuss' acting career began at this age at a Beverly Hills Jewish Center. He debuted in the TV production ''Inside Mama's Home whenever he was 15. He attended a San Fernando Valley State College for the year and then became a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, and worked inside surrogate service for ii years as a clerk within an Los Angeles hospital. around the period of this period he acted in a select few little TV roles in shows like Peyton Place and The Big Valley''. In a period of the late 60s & early 70s, he performed as well in stage in Broadway, off-Broadway, repertory and improvisational theater.

Dreyfuss' number one film the share was a super little, uncredited section in The Graduate, in which he single got a single line, "Shall I call the cops? I'll call the cops." He mass produced so an impression around Dillinger, and landed the role in the 1973 hit American Graffiti, acting with more first stars, rather Harrison Ford.

Dreyfuss' played his number one lead role in the American film The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. He went in to star in the brobdingnagian pack professional hits Jaws and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. For his portrayal of the struggling actor in The Goodbye Girl he won an Oscar, becoming a immature actor at a period to ever win the Best Actor Award (this record has since been surpassed by Adrien Brody).

Between 1978 and 1982, Dreyfuss acted in many films, however none did particularly easily at a box office. This led to the growing drug dependency, which ended of these nighttime inside 1982, when his car hit the tree & he was arrested for possession of cocaine. He filtered himself higher & mass produced the comeback inside Hollywood in the film Down And Out In Beverly Hills, proving that he was still one of Hollywood's virtually all accomplished actors. Since so he hwhen continued his career as one of a virtually all dependable & versatile actors, nin single within the pic, however likewise in television & on stage. Around April, 2004, he appeared in the revival of Sly Dodger in Broadway (opposite Eric Stoltz, René Auberjonois, Bronson Pinchot, Elizabeth Berkley, et al.).

Within November 2004, he was scheduled to appear in The Producers in London, but withdrew from either a production a week prior to the opening. the understanding for his departure was indecipherable, however newspapers noted that Dreyfuss was however suffering from either problems on to an operation for a herniated disc in January, and that a section of Max Bialystock in the play occurs as physically demanding 1. Nathan Lane was brought in to replenish Dreyfuss in the London production.

Dreyfuss is presently the Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford.

From either 1983 until 1995 Dreyfuss was married to Jeramie Rain, with whom he experienced triad babies. Since 1999 he has been married to Janelle Lacey.

Filmography
Silver City (2004) Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001) The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001) ''Krippendorf's Tribe (1998) Night Falls on Manhattan (1997) Mad Dog Time (1996) Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) The American President (1995) The Last Word (1995) Silent Fall (1994) Another Stakeout (1993) Lost in Yonkers (1993) What About Bob? (1991) Once Around (1991) Postcards from the Edge (1990) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Always (1989) Let It Ride (1989) Moon Over Parador (1988) Nuts (1987) Stakeout (1987) Tin Men (1987) Stand by Me (1986) Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) The Buddy System (1984) Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) The Competition (1980) The Big Fix (1978) The Goodbye Girl (1977) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Victory At Entebbe (1976) Jaws (1975) Inserts (1975) The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) Dillinger (1973) American Graffiti (1973) Hello Down There (1969) The Young Runaways (1968) The Graduate'' (1967)