Richard Dreyfuss
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Biography
Richard Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor. He has starred in film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob? and Mr. Holland's Opus. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for ...
Known For
Filmography
Waltzing with Brando
2025
as Seymour Kraft
Into the Deep
2025
as Seamus
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
as Self
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
as Self - (archive footage)
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
as Self
Sweetwater
2023
as Maurice Podoloff
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
as Narrator (voice)
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
as Edgar
Save Christmas
2022
as Santa
Every Last One of Them
2021
as Murphy
Crime Story
2021
as Ben Myers
Audrey
2020
as Self - Actor
Stars in the House
2020
as Self
The Last Laugh
2019
as Buddy Green
Polar
2019
as Porter
Daughter of the Wolf
2019
as Father
Astronaut
2019
as Angus
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018
as Self
Book Club
2018
as George
Bayou Caviar
2018
as Yuri
Asher
2018
as Avi
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
as Self
Spielberg
2017
as Self
Shots Fired
2017
as Arlen Cox
Madoff
2016
as Bernie Madoff
Zipper
2015
as George Hiller
Your Family or Mine
2015
as Louis
Squatters
2014
as David Silverman
Caserta Palace Dream
2014
as Luigi Vanvitelli
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
as Self
Very Good Girls
2013
as Danny
Paranoia
2013
as Frank Cassidy
Cas & Dylan
2013
as Dr. Cas Pepper
Milius
2013
as Self
Casting By
2012
as Self
Coma
2012
as Professor Hillside
The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011
as Narrator
Bubble Guppies
2011
as Captain Acrab
Piranha 3D
2010
as Matthew Boyd
RED
2010
as Alexander Dunning
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010
as Self
Parenthood
2010
as Gilliam T. Blount
My Life in Ruins
2009
as Irv Gideon
Leaves of Grass
2009
as Pug Rothbaum
The Lightkeepers
2009
as Seth
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
as Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
as Self
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
as Self
W.
2008
as Dick Cheney
America Betrayed
2008
as Narrator
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
as Self
Ocean of Fear
2007
as Narrator
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
as Self
Tin Man
2007
as Mystic Man
Poseidon
2006
as Richard Nelson
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
as Self
The Dish on Dolls
2006
as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Self - Actor
Weeds
2005
as Warren Schiff
The Reichen Show
2005
as Self
Silver City
2004
as Chuck Raven
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
as Narrator
Coast to Coast
2004
as Barnaby Pierce
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
as Self
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003
as Theodore Roosevelt
The Johnstown Flood
2003
as narrator
The John Garfield Story
2003
as Self
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002
as Narrator
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
as Micah Donnelly
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
as Antonio Bolivar
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
as Alexander Haig
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
as Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
as Self
In Search of Peace
2001
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
as Max Bickford
Fail Safe
2000
as President
The Crew
2000
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000
as Self
Lansky
1999
as Meyer Lansky
Family Guy
1999
as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
Where Are They Now?
1999
as Self
Family Guy
1999
as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
as Prof. Krippendorf
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
as Self
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998
as Narrator
The Entertainment Biz
1998
as Self
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
as Sam Vigoda
Oliver Twist
1997
as Fagin
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
as Narrator (voice)
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997
as Self
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997
as Self
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
as Self
The View
1997
as Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
James and the Giant Peach
1996
as Centipede (voice)
Mad Dog Time
1996
as Vic
The Universal Story
1996
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
as Glenn Holland
The American President
1995
as Senator Rumson
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
as Self
The Last Word
1995
as Larry
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
as Self
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
as Self
Silent Fall
1994
as Dr. Jake Rainer
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Another Stakeout
1993
as Det. Chris Lecce
Lost in Yonkers
1993
as Louie Kurnitz
Lincoln
1992
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
as Narrator (voice)
What About Bob?
1991
as Dr. Leo Marvin
Once Around
1991
as Sam Sharpe
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
as The Player
Prisoner of Honor
1991
as Col. Picquart
Postcards from the Edge
1990
as Dr. Frankenthal
Always
1989
as Pete Sandich
Let It Ride
1989
as Jay Trotter
Moon Over Parador
1988
as Jack Noah
Tin Men
1987
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Stakeout
1987
as Det. Chris Lecce
Citizen Steve
1987
as Jedediah
Nuts
1987
as Aaron Levinsky
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
as Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self
Stand by Me
1986
as The Writer
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
as Dave Whiteman
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
The Buddy System
1984
as Joe
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
as Ken Harrison
The Competition
1980
as Paul Dietrich
The Big Fix
1978
as Moses Wine
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
as Roy Neary
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977
as Self
The Goodbye Girl
1977
as Elliot Garfield
The Sentinel
1977
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
Victory at Entebbe
1976
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Jaws
1975
as Hooper
Inserts
1975
as Boy Wonder
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
as Duddy
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974
as Clavius
New England Our Way
1974
as Self
American Graffiti
1973
as Curt Henderson
Catch-22
1973
as Yossarian
Dillinger
1973
as Baby Face Nelson
Me
1973
as Greg
A Touch of Grace
1973
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972
as Tommy Owen
Two for the Money
1972
as Morris Gap
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Treffpunkte
1970
as Self
Hello Down There
1969
as Harold Webster
Room 222
1969
The New People
1969
The Young Runaways
1968
as Terry
The Mod Squad
1968
The Graduate
1967
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Valley of the Dolls
1967
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Judd for the Defense
1967
The Second Hundred Years
1967
as Ben Jr.
That Girl
1966
Felony Squad
1966
Hey Landlord!
1966
Occasional Wife
1966
Gidget
1965
The Big Valley
1965
as Lud
Bewitched
1964
Karen
1964
as David Rowe III
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Ben Casey
1961
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
Gunsmoke
1955
as Gearshon Gorofsky
The Oscars
1953
as Self