Richard Dreyfuss
Film

Richard Dreyfuss

Section Title: Film
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Year	Film	Role	Notes

1967	Valley of the Dolls	Assistant stage manager	Uncredited

1967	The Graduate	Boarding House Resident	Uncredited

1968	The Young Runaways	Terry

1969	Hello Down There	Harold Webster

1973	American Graffiti	Curt Henderson	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

1973	Dillinger	Baby Face Nelson

1974	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Duddy	Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor

1974	The Second Coming of Suzanne	Clavius

1975	Inserts	The Boy Wonder

1975	Jaws	Matt Hooper	Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Roy Neary	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor

1977	The Goodbye Girl	Elliott Garfield	Academy Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

1978	The Big Fix	Moses Wine	Also producer

1980	The Competition	Paul Dietrich	Nominated—Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor

1981	Whose Life Is It Anyway?	Ken Harrison

1983	The Buddy System	Joe

1986	Down and Out in Beverly Hills	David 'Dave' Whiteman

1986	Stand by Me	Narrator/Gordie LaChance (adult)

1987	Tin Men	Bill 'BB' Babowsky

1987	Stakeout	Det. Chris Lecce

1987	Nuts	Aaron Levinsky	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture

1988	Moon over Parador	Jack Noah/President Alphonse Simms

1989	Let It Ride	Jay Trotter

1989	Always	Pete Sandich

1990	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead	The Player	Pasinetti Award for Best Actor

1990	Postcards from the Edge	Doctor Frankenthal

1991	Once Around	Sam Sharpe	Also co-producer

1991	What About Bob?	Leo Marvin

1993	Lost in Yonkers	Louie Kurnitz

1993	Another Stakeout	Detective Chris Lecce

1994	Silent Fall	Jake Rainer

1995	The Last Word	Larry

1995	The American President	Senator Bob Rumson

1995	Mr. Holland's Opus	Glenn Holland	Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama

1996	James and the Giant Peach	Mr. Centipede (voice)

1996	Mad Dog Time	Vic

1997	Night Falls on Manhattan	Sam Vigoda

1998	Krippendorf's Tribe	Prof. James Krippendorf

2000	The Crew	Bobby Bartellemeo/Narrator

2001	The Old Man Who Read Love Stories	Antonio Bolivar	Nominated—Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actor

2001	Who Is Cletis Tout?	Micah Donnelly

2001	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys	Scoop T. Snowman (voice)

2004	Silver City	Chuck Raven

2006	Poseidon	Richard Nelson

2008	Signs of the Time	Narrator	Documentary

2008	W.	Dick Cheney

2008	America Betrayed	Narrator	Documentary

2009	My Life in Ruins	Irv

2009	Leaves of Grass	Pug Rothbaum

2009	The Lightkeepers	Seth	Also executive producer

2010	Piranha 3D	Matt Hooper (Credited as "Matthew Boyd")	Cameo appearance

2010	Red	Alexander Dunning

2013	Paranoia	Francis Cassidy

2013	Cas and Dylan	Cas Pepper

2014	Very Good Girls	Danny

2014	Squatters	David

2015	Zipper	George Hiller

2018	Book Club	George

2018	Bayou Caviar	Yuri

2019	The Last Laugh	Buddy Green

2019	Polar	Porter

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Dreyfuss was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Glenn Holland in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995).

final_sentence: Dreyfuss was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Glenn Holland in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995).