John Manard for Super Festivals/Galaxy Con from Ft. Lauderdale, USA · CC BY 2.0

Emerged from the New Hollywood generation with a run of defining 1970s roles — American Graffiti, Jaws, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind — before winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Goodbye Girl in 1977. He returned to Oscar contention nearly two decades later for Mr. Holland's Opus, and later played Meyer Lansky in HBO's Lansky and Alexander Haig in Showtime's The Day Reagan Was Shot.