Richard Dreyfuss Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Richard Dreyfuss Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (/ˈdraɪfəs/; né Dreyfus; born October 29,

1947) is an American actor best known for starring in popular films

during the 1970s and 1980s, including American Graffiti, Jaws, Stand

by Me, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Down and Out in Beverly

Hills, The Goodbye Girl, Tin Men, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob?,

and Mr. Holland's Opus.Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor

in 1978 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 Miniseries or Television

Movie categories.Dreyfuss was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of

Norman Dreyfus (1920â€"2013), an attorney, restaurateur and the owner

of a plastics company originally from a "violent gang culture in

Brooklyn," and Geraldine (née Robbins; 1921â€"2000), a peace

activist. Norman Dreyfus suffered from the debilitating physical

effects of being caught in a mortar explosion at the Battle of the

Bulge in World War II, requiring the use of crutches, canes, and

special footwear provided by the Army for the rest of his life. He

left the family when his son was 21 years old, and remarried more than

once; he and his son were not on speaking terms at the time of his

death.Dreyfuss was raised in the Bayside area of Queens, New York. His

family is Jewish. He has commented that he "grew up thinking that

Alfred Dreyfus and [he] are from the same family." His father disliked

New York, and moved the family first to Europe,[clarification needed]

and later to Los Angeles, California, when Dreyfuss was nine. Dreyfuss

attended Beverly Hills High School.
Richard Dreyfuss Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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