I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

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In 1995 Dreyfuss co-authored with science-fiction writer Harry Turtledove the novel The Two Georges an alternate history/mystery piece set in the year 1996 of an alternate timeline where the American Revolution was peacefully avoided. Holland's Opus (1995).

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. Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29 1947) 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 Is It Anyway? Always What About Bob? Poseidon Mr.