The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 100 to 91
Born in Flatbush, little Richard Dreyfuss would leave Brooklyn by the age of nine, eventually settling down in Beverly Hills. Which, yeah, California was really the best place for a budding actor to be; in his late 20s, the wheezy-voiced performer would team up with Spielberg to become not only a star but a part of film history—first in Jaws, then Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which he would forever change the way we played with our mashed potatoes. The rest of his career has been varied: he narrated Stand By Me, freaked the fuck out in What About Bob?, took on Academy tearjerking in Mr. Holland’s Opus, and was a dead ringer for Dick Cheney in W. But to us he’ll always be James Krippendorf, the corrupt, embezzling anthropologist from Krippendorf’s Tribe.