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Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor. He emerged from the New Hollywood wave of American cinema, finding fame with a succession of leading man parts in the 1970s. He has received numerous acting honors, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Satellite Award, a David di Donatello Award, a Saturn Award, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for two Actor Awards, two Photopl…
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entertainment · American actor (born 1947) · actor · television actor · novelist · film actor · stage actor · also Richard Dreyfuss, Dreyfuss
Born 29 October 1947 · Q181799
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 14,065 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.8× the usual 2,934, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: Into the Deep review – Richard Dreyfuss brings the meaning to smugglers v sharks thriller
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That he and his siblings had an estranged relationship with their father
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘We deeply regret the distress’: cinema apologises for Richard Dreyfuss comments at Jaws screening
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Dreyfuss disparaged "diversity initiatives", and launched into what was described as a transphobic, misogynistic, homophobic, and
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Richard Dreyfuss says Oscar diversity rules ‘make me vomit’
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Last Job review – Richard Dreyfuss is a retiree on a rampage in muddled melodrama
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Richard Dreyfuss: 'I was a bad guy for a number of years'
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2017· 5 entries
The Guardian: Richard Dreyfuss denies exposing himself to writer in 1987
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The Guardian: Kevin Spacey accused of sexual assault by son of actor Richard Dreyfuss
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The Guardian: Richard Dreyfuss: ‘The one topic on which my dad would open up was sex’
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Dreyfuss' Harry accused Spacey of groping him while he ran lines with the elder Dreyfuss in Spacey's apartment; Spacey denied the allegation
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Writer Jessica Teich accused Dreyfuss of sexual harassment during the filming of an ABC special
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2014· 1 entry
Appeared with best-selling Abraham Lincoln scholar Ronald C
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2011· 1 entry
And 2014, Dreyfuss was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board
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2009· 2 entries
And later appeared in the episode "Peter-assment"
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Appeared in the play Complicit by Joe Sutton at the Old Vic
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2007· 1 entry
Dreyfuss appeared in the youth voting documentary film 18 in '08
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2006· 5 entries
Spoke at The National Press Club in Washington, D
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Appeared as Richard Nelson, a gay architect and one of the survivors in the film Poseidon
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Dreyfuss discussed his diagnosis of bipolar disorder in the documentary Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, in which Fry (who also has the disorder) interviewed Dreyfuss about his experience being bipol
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And as of February 2020 they reside in the San Diego area, although they have frequently visited New York City, London, and Sun Valley, Idaho
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Created The Dreyfuss Civics Initiative (TDCI)
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2004· 1 entry
Appeared in the revival of Sly Fox on Broadway (opposite Eric Stoltz, René Auberjonois, Bronson Pinchot and Elizabeth Berkley)
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2003· 1 entry
By Adrien Brody, who was three weeks shy of age 30 at the time of the 75th Academy Awards ceremony
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1999· 1 entry
Dreyfuss made his London West End debut starring alongside Marsha Mason in Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
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1997· 1 entry
Dreyfuss recorded a voiceover for the Apple Computer "Think Different" ad campaign, and also provided the voice of the narrator in The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
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1995· 1 entry
Dreyfuss co-authored (with Harry Turtledove) The Two Georges, a novel in which the American Revolution had been peacefully avoided
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1994· 1 entry
Participated in the historic Papal Concert to Commemorate the Shoah at the Vatican in the presence of Pope John Paul II, Rav Elio Toaff, chief rabbi of Rome, and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, President of the Italian Republic
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1989· 1 entry
Dreyfuss reunited with Spielberg on Always, a remake of A Guy Named Joe in which he co-starred with Holly Hunter, and reunited with his Close Encounters co-star Teri Garr for the comedy Let It Ride
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1988· 1 entry
Reunited with director Paul Mazursky to star in the political farce Moon over Parador
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1982· 1 entry
When he was arrested for possession of the drug after he blacked out while driving, and his Mercedes-Benz 450 SL struck a tree
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Goodbye Girl (1979).
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for The Goodbye Girl (1978).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for The Goodbye Girl (1978).
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1972· 1 entry
At the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles, and directed by Edwin Sherin
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1947· 2 entries
Born 1947-10-29.
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In Brooklyn, New York City, the second son of Norman Dreyfuss, an attorney, restaurateur and plastics company owner originally from a "violent gang culture in Brooklyn", and Geraldine (nee Robbins), a peace activist
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