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Richard Dreyfuss: Biography

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Birth Name: Richard Stephan Dreyfuss
Birth Place: Brooklyn, NY
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 10/29/1947, Scorpio
Profession: Actor; producer

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Richard Dreyfuss: TV Guide News

Shark Weeks Makes a Ratings Splash for Discovery Channel | Today's News: Our Take | 7/31/2007
It's just like the sleazy mayor in Jaws says: "You yell, 'Barracuda,' everybody says, 'Huh? What?' You yell, 'Shark,' you've got a ratings smash in the middle of summer!" Discovery Channel's Sunday-night Shark Week special, Ocean of Fear: The Worst Shark Attack Ever, brought the cabler its best numbers ever for the annual feeding frenzy. The Richard Dreyfuss-narrated Shark Attack hooked 3.9 million total viewers, way more than 2003's Anatomy of a Shark Bite (which scared up 3.2 million). The 20th "Shark Week" runs through Saturday. In related news, Daryl Hannah, John Schneider and Armand Assante have signed on to star in Hallmark Channel's three-hour Shark Swarm, about... oh, come on. Read the title. read more
Casting About: Richard Dreyfuss Takes a Wizard | Today's News: Our Take | 3/2/2007
• Richard Dreyfuss is joining Sci Fi Channel's Tin Man, playing a wizard known as Mystic Man, Reuters reports. This leaves the roles of Raw, a wolverine creature, and Cain, a former policeman with a scarred heart, to be cast in the Oz-some miniseries.• Exclusive: Clancy Brown (Lost) will play Rudy Blue, "a fallen baseball idol whose all-star career is overshadowed by sketchy investments and sexual indescretions," on the April 9 episode of FX's The Riches (premiering Mar. 12).• Big You-know-who has been replaced by... Cliff Clavin. Cheers' John Ratzenberger has claimed Vincent Pastore's spot on Dancing with the Stars, ABC announced on Friday. read more
Televisionary | 3/28/2006
Maybe 40 or so years ago, wasn't there a television show called Karen? For some reason I'm thinking it starred a read more
Televisionary | 11/10/2005
One of my favorite shows from around the late '60s to early '70s took place on a deserted island, where a bunch of colle read more
FlickChick | 8/25/2005
A friend of mine says there are two remakes of The Poseidon Adventure (1972) in the works, one for theatres and read more

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Richard Dreyfuss: Photos

eric stoltz, Bronson Pinchot, Richard Dreyfuss courtesy Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage.com

francis ford coppola, richard dreyfuss courtesy Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com

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Richard Dreyfuss: TV Listings

Richard Dreyfuss: Credits

Title	Year	Type
Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Ever (Narrator)	2007	TV Show Series
Tin Man (Actor - Mystic Man)	2007	TV Show Series
Poseidon (Actor - Richard Nelson)	2006	Movie
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to George Lucas (Remarks by)	2005	TV Show Series
Silver City (Actor - Chuck Raven)	2004	Movie