Richard Dreyfuss
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as Hooper Jaws Richard Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor. He has starred in film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob? and Mr. Holland's Opus. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories.
Filmography
Jaws
as Hooper
RED
as Alexander Dunning
Stand by Me
as The Writer
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
The Graduate
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Polar
as Porter
Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)
Paranoia
as Frank Cassidy
What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin
Book Club
as George
The American President
as Senator Rumson
W.
as Dick Cheney
Always
as Pete Sandich
Leaves of Grass
as Pug Rothbaum
Very Good Girls
as Danny
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Glenn Holland
Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce