Biography
Geraldine Dreyfuss was an American actress. She played Sadie Whiteman in the 1986 film Down and Out in Beverly Hills and appeared as Woman During Chase in Let It Ride (1989).
Born in New York City on 10 March 1921, she attended Brooklyn College and lived in Los Angeles from 1956. She was the mother of actors Richard Dreyfuss and Lorin Dreyfuss.
Dreyfuss worked as a civil rights and peace activist. In 1961 she was a major Los Angeles organiser of the nationwide Women’s Strike for Peace. She died in Los Angeles on 19 October 2000.
