---
name: "Geraldine Dreyfuss"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/geraldine-dreyfuss"
fi1m_id: "geraldine-dreyfuss"
tmdb_id: 3595526
roles: []
born: "10 March 1921"
died: "19 October 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T19:51:16.729792+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Geraldine Dreyfuss

## Identity

Geraldine Dreyfuss

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/geraldine-dreyfuss
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** geraldine-dreyfuss
- **TMDB ID:** 3595526
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3595526

Actor. Born 10 March 1921 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 19 October 2000.

## Details

- **Born:** 10 March 1921, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 19 October 2000
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3595526

## 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.

*Sources: imdb.com, latimes.com, allmovie.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Down and Out in Beverly Hills* (1986), Fi1m 65, as Sadie Whiteman — [page](https://film.one/film/down-and-out-in-beverly-hills.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Down and Out in Beverly Hills* (1986), as Sadie Whiteman — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/down-and-out-in-beverly-hills.md)

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