Book Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss is an American actor who rose with the New Hollywood generation and became one of the signature leading men of the 1970s. He broke through in American Graffiti (1973) and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), then starred in two landmark Steven Spielberg films, Jaws (1975) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). His turn as Elliot Garfield in The Goodbye Girl won him the Academy Award for Best Actor, along with a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, and he earned another Best Actor Oscar nomination for the title role in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995). His long list of credits includes Stand by Me (1986), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Stakeout (1987), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), What About Bob? (1991), The American President (1995) and W. (2008). On television he led The Education of Max Bickford and played Bernie Madoff in Madoff (2016). He has also received a David di Donatello award, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Grammy nominations, and co-wrote the novel The Two Georges (1995). Dreyfuss is a passionate, articulate speaker with decades of film stories to share.