He appeared in the subsequent Dillinger, and landed a role in the 1973 hit American Graffiti, acting with other future stars such as Harrison Ford and Ron Howard. In 1973 he starred in the CBS pilot Catch-22. He had one line, "Shall I get the cops? I'll get the cops." He was also briefly seen as a stagehand in Valley of the Dolls (1967), in which he had a few lines. ĭreyfuss's first film role was a small, uncredited appearance in The Graduate. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he also performed on stage on Broadway, Off-Broadway, repertory, and improvisational theater.ĭreyfuss appeared in the play The Time of Your Life, which was revived on March 17, 1972, at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles, and directed by Edwin Sherin.
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During this time, he acted in a few small TV roles on shows such as Peyton Place, Gidget, That Girl, Gunsmoke, Bewitched, The Ghost & Mrs.
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He attended San Fernando Valley State College, now California State University, Northridge, for a year, and was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, working in alternate service for two years, as a clerk in a Los Angeles hospital. He debuted in the TV production In Mama's House, when he was fifteen. Career ĭreyfuss (left) and producer Allan Carr at the Governor's Ball after the 1989 Academy Awardsĭreyfuss began acting in his youth, at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills Arts Center and the Westside Jewish Community Center, under drama teacher Bill Miller. Dreyfuss attended Beverly Hills High School. His father disliked New York, and moved the family first to Europe, and later to Los Angeles, California, when Dreyfuss was nine. He has commented that he "grew up thinking that Alfred Dreyfus and are from the same family". His family is Jewish, descended from immigrants from Russia and Poland. ĭreyfuss was raised in the Bayside area of Queens, New York. He left the family when his son was 21 years old, and remarried more than once he and his son were not on speaking terms at the time of his death. Norman Dreyfus suffered from the debilitating physical effects of a mortar explosion at the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, requiring the use of crutches, canes, and special footwear provided by the Army for the rest of his life. Dreyfuss was born on October 29, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Norman Dreyfus (1920–2013), an attorney, restaurateur and plastics company owner originally from a "violent gang culture in Brooklyn", and Geraldine ( née Robbins 1921–2000), a peace activist.