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American actor Richard Stephen Dreyfuss was born on October 29th 1947 in Brooklyn, New York and has a net worth of $5 million. He started his acting career when he attended Beverly Hills Jewish Center. At age 15, he made his debut in Mama’s House, a TV production. After school, he was actively involved in services during the Vietnam War for two years, doing clerical work in a hospital in Los Angeles.

However, he did act in various small TV productions during that period and in the late 1960’s done improvisational theater, repertory, and Broadway. Dreyfuss made his filming debut in The Graduate, with only one line, followed by a few more lines in 1967’s Valley of the Dolls. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in 1974 landed him his first lead role, with great reviews.

Two Steven Spielberg movies followed with Dreyfuss starring in both, and he moved on to become the youngest actor at that time to win the Best Actor Award at age 29. The award was for The Goodbye Girl in 1977. Although he had some bad experiences with cocaine for a period in his life, his career did not falter and he continued to work accumulating his net worth of $55 million.

Earnings & Financial Data

Date	Category	Description	Amount
2018	Others	Sales of the video Book Club as George	$7,960,000
2018	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movie Book Club as George	$89,690,000
2018	Asset	Purchase value of Richard Dreyfuss' home in Los Angeles	$3,000,000
2014	Others	Sales of the video Paranoia as Francis Cassidy	$920,440
2014	Others	Sales of the video Very Good Girls as Danny	$121,020
2014	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movie Very Good Girls as Danny	$6,940
2013	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movie Paranoia as Francis Cassidy	$16,340,000
2012	Others	Sales of the video Jaws as Matt Hooper	$12,190,000
2011	Others	Sales of the videos Piranha 3D as Matt Hooper and Red as Alexander Dunning	$72,110,000
2010	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movies Piranha 3D as Matt Hooper and Red as Alexander Dunning	$282,670,000
2009	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movies My Life in Ruins as Irv, Leaves of Grass as Pug Rothbaum and box office sales of the movies America Betrayed as the film's narrator and The Lightkeepers as Seth and the film's executive producer	$21,530,000
2009	Others	Sales of the videos W. as Dick Cheney and My Life in Ruins as Irv	$19,110,000
2008	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movie W. as Dick Cheney	$29,510,000
2008	Asset	Purchase value of Richard Dreyfuss' house in the rural community of Olivenhain in eastern Encinitas, California	$1,500,000
2006	Box Office Sales	Sales of the video Poseidon as Richard Nelson	$27,460,000
2006	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movie Poseidon as Richard Nelson	$181,670,000
2004	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movie Silver City as Chuck Raven	$1,380,000
2002	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movies The Old Man Who Read Love Stories as Antonio Bolivar and Who Is Cletis Tout? as Micah Donnelly	$387,300
2000	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movie The Crew as Bobby Bartellemeo and the film's narrator	$13,110,000
1998	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movie Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. James Krippendorf	$7,570,000
1997	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movie Night Falls on Manhattan as Sam Vigoda	$9,890,000
1996	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movies James and the Giant Peach as the voice of Mr. Centipede and Mad Dog Time as Vic	$29,060,000
1995	Salary	Salary from the movie The American President as Senator Bob Rumson	$5,000,000
1995	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movies The American President as Senator Bob Rumson and Mr. Holland's Opus as Glenn Holland	$214,160,000
1994	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movie Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer	$3,180,000
1993	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movies Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz and Another Stakeout as Detective Chris Lecce	$29,500,000
1991	Salary	Salary from the movie What About Bob? as Dr. Leo Marvin	$5,000,000
1991	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movies Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as The Player, Once Around as Sam Sharpe and the film's co-producer and What About Bob? as Dr. Leo Marvin	$79,300,000
1990	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movie Postcards from the Edge as Doctor Frankenthal	$39,070,000
1989	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movies Let It Ride as Jay Trotter and Always as Pete Sandich	$79,100,000
1988	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movie Moon over Parador as Jack Noah or President Alphonse Simms	$11,440,000
1987	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movies Tin Men as Bill 'BB' Babowsky, Stakeout as Detective Chris Lecce and Nuts as Aaron Levinsky	$122,030,000
1985	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movies Down and Out in Beverly Hills as David 'Dave' Whiteman and Stand by Me as the adult Gordie LaChance and the film's narrator	$114,420,000
1984	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movie The Buddy System as Joe	$1,820,000
1981	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movie Whose Life Is It Anyway? as Ken Harrison	$8,210,000
1980	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movie The Competition as Paul Dietrich	$14,290,000
1978	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movie The Big Fix as Moses Wine and the film's producer	$13,060,000
1977	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Roy Neary and box office sales of the movie The Goodbye Girl as Elliott Garfield	$424,500,000
1975	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movie Jaws as Matt Hooper	$470,700,000
1974	Box Office Sales	Box office sales of the movie The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Duddy	$1,700,000
1973	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movies American Graffiti as Curt Henderson and Dillinger as Baby Face Nelson	$142,000,000
1967	Box Office Sales	Worldwide box office sales of the movie Valley of the Dolls as an assistant stage manager and box office sales of the movie The Graduate as a boarding house resident	$154,950,000