Profile
Richard Dreyfuss
Actor
Male
Born
Oct 29, 1947
Age
65
Hometown
New York
Other Names
Dreyfuss, Richard...
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life… Read More
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Romance
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Svetlana ErokhinMarried 2006
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Janelle LaceyMarried 1999 - 2005
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Jeramie RainMarried 1983 - 1995
Family
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Richard Dreyfuss
Age 65
parents
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Norman DreyfussFather
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Geraldine DreyfussMother, d.2000
siblings
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Lorin DreyfussBrother, Age 68
children
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Emily DreyfussDaughter, Age 29
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Ben DreyfussSon, Age 26
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Harry DreyfussSon, Age 22
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Crazy Legs Conti: The Triple Crown Of The ChowdownHuffington Post - May 01, 2013
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David Macaray: 10 Ways Lindsay Lohan Can Salvage Her CareerHuffington Post - Nov 29, 2012
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Tim Geithner Asked To Save AmericaHuffington Post - Nov 26, 2012
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Dvd Review: 'The American President'San Francisco Chronicle - Oct 25, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1947
Birth
Born on October 29, 1947.
TWENTIES
1972
24 Years Old
Dreyfuss appeared alongside Henry Fonda, Gloria Grahame, Ron Thompson, Strother Martin, Jane Alexander, Lewis J. Stadlen, Richard X. Slattery and Pepper Martin in the play The Time of Your Life, which was revived on March 17, 1972 at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles, and directed by Edwin Sherin.
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1973
25 Years Old
He appeared in the subsequent Dillinger, and landed a role in the 1973 hit American Graffiti, acting with other future stars such as Harrison Ford and Ron Howard.
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THIRTIES
He won the 1978 Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a struggling actor in The Goodbye Girl (1977), becoming the youngest actor to do so (at the age of 29).
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1984
36 Years Old
He said he gave his relatives $870,000 in 1984 when they owned an interest in a Los Angeles office building.
1986
38 Years Old
He entered rehabilitation and eventually made a Hollywood comeback with the film Down And Out In Beverly Hills in 1986 and Stakeout the following year.
FORTIES
1989
41 Years Old
In 1989, Dreyfuss reunited with Spielberg on Always, a remake of A Guy Named Joe in which he co-starred with Holly Hunter.
1991
43 Years Old
He had a starring role opposite Bill Murray in the 1991 hit comedy What About Bob?, as a psychiatrist who goes crazy while trying to cope with a particularly obsessive new patient.
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1994
46 Years Old
In 1994, he participated in the historic Papal Concert to Commemorate the Holocaust at the Vatican in the presence of Pope John Paul II, Rav Elio Toaf, chief rabbi of Rome, and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, President of the Italian Republic.
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1995
47 Years Old
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After his 1995 divorce from Rain, Dreyfuss then married Janelle Lacey in 1999 but they divorced in 2005.
FIFTIES
2000
52 Years Old
Dreyfuss' mother died on October 19, 2000, due to complications from a stroke.
2001
53 Years Old
In 2001/2002, he played Max Bickford in the television drama The Education of Max Bickford.
In April 2004, he appeared in the revival of Sly Fox on Broadway (opposite Eric Stoltz, René Auberjonois, Bronson Pinchot and Elizabeth Berkley).
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In 2006, he appeared as one of the survivors in the 2006 film Poseidon.
LATE ADULTHOOD
Dreyfuss portrayed U.S Vice President Dick Cheney in Oliver Stone's 2008 George W. Bush bio-pic W.
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2011
63 Years Old
On June 10, 2011, Dreyfuss was made a Master Mason by the Grand Master of Masons of the District of Columbia at the Washington DC Scottish Rite building, as well as a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason and is a member of the Valley of the District of Columbia, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite.
2012
64 Years Old
Dreyfuss was among 99 other stars at the 2012 Academy Awards - Night of 100 Stars.
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