Dreyfuss' stage credits include Sly Fox and Death and the Maiden on Broadway and Complicit at the Old Vic. He won an Academy Award for The Goodbye Girl and was nominated for a second Oscar for his performance in Mr. Holland's Opus. Among his many other film credits are Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, What About Bob? and The American President.