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Richard Dreyfuss is an American leading man, who has played his fair share of irritating pests and brash, ambitious hustlers.

He was born Richard Stephen Dreyfus in Brooklyn, New York, to Geraldine (Robbins), an activist, and Norman Dreyfus, a restaurateur and attorney. His paternal grandparents were Austro-Hungarian Jewish immigrants, and his mother's family was Russian Jewish.

Richard worked his way up through bit parts (The Graduate, for one) and TV before gaining attention with his portrayal of Baby Face Nelson in John Milius' Dillinger. He gained prominence as a college-bound young man in American Graffiti and as a nervy Jewish kid with high hopes in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. By the latter part of the 1970s Dreyfuss was established as a major star, playing leads (and alter-egos) for Steven Spielberg in two of the top-grossing films of the that decade: Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He won a Best Actor Oscar in his first romantic lead as an out-of-work actor in The Goodbye Girl. Dreyfuss also produced and starred in the entertaining private

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