Richard Dreyfuss has become the latest Hollywood figure to face allegation of sexual harassment,

Within days of accusing Kevin Spacey of fondling his son, Dreyfuss was accused by Jessica Tech, a Los Angeles based writer, of harassing her for several years.

The allegations date back to the 1980s when the pair were working on a TV show called “Funny, You Don’t Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville”.

Ms Tech was a junior writer and researcher on the show and Dreyfuss was married with a young child.

In an interview with Vulture, a show business website, Ms Teich alleged Dreyfuss made repeated sexual advances towards her.

On at least one occasion, she claims, Dreyfuss exposed himself adding that he appeared to hope she would perform a sex act although he never actually requested she did so.

“It was like an out-of-body experience. I just tried to swiftly get out of the room. I pretended it hadn’t really happened,” she told Vulture.

“I kept moving because it was part of my job, and I knew he was, at the time, a very important guy, and certainly important to me.

"I trusted him. That’s what’s always so weird. I liked him. That’s part of why it’s so painful, because of the level of innocence one brings to these things. I felt responsible, that I must have indicated in some way that I was available for this.”