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, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob? and Mr. Holland's Opus. Dreyfuss 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.
Paranoia
Stakeout
American Graffiti
Astronaut
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Spielberg
James and the Giant Peach
Krippendorf's Tribe
Postcards from the Edge
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Mad Dog Time
Poseidon
Mr. Holland's Opus
Valley of the Dolls
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
The American President
Another Stakeout
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
The Griffins
Saturday Night Live '80
The Academy Awards
Mod Squad
The Weekend View
The Daily Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Weeds
Inside the Actors Studio
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Gidget
That Girl
Room 222
Gunsmoke
Bewitched
GREAT PERFORMANCES | PBS
Ocean of Fear
The Education of Max Bickford
Tin Man
The Mike Douglas Show
