Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss was born on Oct 29, 1947 in USA. Richard Dreyfuss's big-screen debut came with Karen - Season 1 directed by Hollingsworth Morse in 1964, strarring David Rowe III. Richard Dreyfuss is known for Madoff directed by Raymond De Felitta, Drew Gregory stars as Agent Neil Smith and Richard Dreyfuss as Bernie Madoff. Richard Dreyfuss has got 18 awards and 17 nominations so far. The most recent award Richard Dreyfuss achieved is Catalina Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Richard Dreyfuss plays is Sweetwater which will be released on Apr 14, 2023.

Richard Dreyfuss is an American leading man, who has played his fair share of irritating pests and brash, ambitious hustlers.He was born Richard Stephen Dreyfus in Brooklyn, New York, to Geraldine (Robbins), an activist, and Norman Dreyfus, a restaurateur and attorney. His paternal grandparents were Austro-Hungarian Jewish immigrants, and his mother's family was Russian Jewish.Richard worked his way up through bit parts (Le lauréat (1967), for one) and TV before gaining attention with his portrayal of Baby Face Nelson in John Milius' Dillinger (1973). He gained prominence as a college-bound young man in American Graffiti (1973) and as a nervy Jewish kid with high hopes in L'apprentissage de Duddy Kravitz (1974). By the latter part of the 1970s Dreyfuss was established as a major star, playing leads (and alter-egos) for Steven Spielberg in two of the top-grossing films of the that decade: Les Dents de la mer (1975) and Rencontres du troisième type (1977). He won a Best Actor Oscar in his first romantic lead as an out-of-work actor in Adieu, je reste... (1977). Dreyfuss also produced and starred in the entertaining private eye movie La grande triche (1978). After a brief lull in the early 1980s, a well-publicized drug problem and a string of box-office disappointments (Le concours (1980), C'est ma vie, après tout! (1981), Copain, copine (1984)), a clean and sober Dreyfuss re-established himself in the mid-'80s as one of Hollywood's more engaging leads. He co-starred with Bette Midler and Nick Nolte in Paul Mazursky's popular Le Clochard de Beverly Hills (1986). That same year he provided the narration and appeared in the opening and closing "bookends" of Rob Reiner's nostalgic Stand by Me : Compte sur moi (1986). He quickly followed that with Cinglée (1987) opposite Barbra Streisand, Barry Levinson's Les filous (1987) in a memorable teaming with Danny DeVito, and Étroite surveillance (1987) with Emilio Estevez. Dreyfuss continued working steadily through the end of the 1980s and into the 1990s, most notably in Mazursky's farce Pleine lune sur Parador (1988), Spielberg's Always - Pour toujours (1989), Bons baisers d'Hollywood (1990) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern sont morts (1990). He appeared as a member of an ensemble that included Holly Hunter, Gena Rowlands and Danny Aiello in the romantic comedy Ce cher intrus (1991) and as a pop psychiatrist, the author of several successful self-help books, who is driven to the edge by nutcase Bill Murray in the popular comedy Quoi de neuf Bob? (1991). Dreyfuss has also remained active in the theater ("Death and Maiden", 1992) and on TV. In his next project he starred the thriller Silent Fall (1994) with John Lithgow and Linda Hamilton, being the film debut of Liv Tyler, Steven Tyler's daughter (Aerosmith's lead vocals). Just later Dreyfuss made Indiscrétion assurée (1993), sequel of Étroite surveillance (1987) where was team again with Emilio Estevez accompanied of Rosie O'Donnell, the adaptation of Neil Simon's play Lost in Yonkers (1993) and followed with a supporting turn as the querulous political opponent in Le président et Miss Wade (1995). Dreyfuss received some of the best notices of his career as a determined, inspiring music teacher coping with a deaf son and the demands of his career in Professeur Holland (1995). Closing the 20th century he was in Sidney Lumet's Dans l'ombre de Manhattan (1996) with Andy Garcia, the crime comedy Mad Dogs (1996) as the mob boss Vic, the screwball comedy Drôles de papous (1998) about an anthropologist who creates a false lost New Guinea tribe for not losing his job in the university, TV movie Lansky (1999) about the infamous mob boss to end, the too TV movie Point limite (2000) playing The President, and The Crew (2000), about four older mobsters retired in Miami, partnering with Hollywood legends Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya and Seymour Cassel.His start in the 21st century was with the adaption of Luis Sepúlveda's novel Le vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour (2001), playing an old man to must to hunt a female jaguar turned crazy. It was followed by the supporting apparition in the comedy Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001) and another TV movie about 1981 Ronald Reagan's shooting Panique à la Maison Blanche (2001). After the short-lived TV series The Education of Max Bickford (2001) about a teacher in a women's college where his daughter is student, Dreyfuss returned to cinema in Silver City (2004) and the box-office bomb Poséidon (2006) with Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum and Josh Lucas. Playing former vice-president Dick Cheney in the Oliver Stone's biopic W., l'improbable président (2008) and Irv, the cunning tourist in Greece turned in assistant of a troubled tour guide in Vacances à la grecque (2009), Dreyfuss participated in low-budget productions as Escrocs en herbe (2009) and The Lightkeepers (2009), for making a cameo in the wild and crazy Piranha 3D (2010) about prehistoric men-eater piranhas that make a bloodbath in a spring break. Returning to first line playing evil Alexander Dunning in the actioner Red (2010), his further productions included Paranoïa (2013) as Liam Hemsworth's father partnering Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, road movie Cas & Dylan (2013) opposites Tatiana Maslany and the biopic TV mini-series Madoff (2016) about the infamous multi-billion-dollar and hustler Bernie Madoff. Tireless and always implied in new projects, Dreyfuss played George, the funny online date of Candice Bergen in Le Book Club (2018), the comedy and road movie Juste pour rire (2019) with Chevy Chase, and the set in wilderness thriller Daughter of the Wolf (2019) with Gina Carano and Brendan Fehr. Making his 73rd birthday in 2020, Dreyfuss is an example of talent, diversity and love for his work, touching not only all the genres in cinema but leaving an unforgettable footprint at any of them.