Richard Dreyfuss
October 29, 1947 (77 years old) in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
An American actor best known for starring in a number of 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. Dreyfuss 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 Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Waltzing with Brando as Seymour Kraft
- 2023 · Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
- 2022 · Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Every Last One of Them as Murphy
- 2021 · Crime Story as Ben Myers
- 2020 · Audrey as Self - Actor
- 2016 · Madoff as Bernie Madoff
- 2015 · Your Family or Mine as Louis
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Milius as Self
- 2009 · The Lightkeepers as Seth
- 2009 · Waking Sleeping Beauty as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
- 2007 · The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo as Self
- 2004 · A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope as Narrator
- 2004 · Coast to Coast as Barnaby Pierce
- 2001 · The Day Reagan Was Shot as Alexander Haig
- 2001 · Who Is Cletis Tout? as Micah Donnelly
- 2000 · Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me as Self
- 1998 · Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude as Narrator
- 1998 · Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
- 1997 · The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Narrator (voice)
- 1996 · Mad Dog Time as Vic
- 1995 · The Making of 'Jaws' as Self
- 1994 · Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer
- 1994 · It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz
- 1991 · Prisoner of Honor as Col. Picquart
- 1991 · Once Around as Sam Sharpe
- 1988 · James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
- 1988 · Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
- 1987 · Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
- 1987 · Citizen Steve as Jedediah
- 1981 · Whose Life Is It Anyway? as Ken Harrison
- 1978 · The Big Fix as Moses Wine
- 1977 · The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
- 1976 · Victory at Entebbe as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
- 1975 · Inserts as Boy Wonder
- 1974 · The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Duddy
- 1973 · A Touch of Grace as
- 1972 · Two for the Money as Morris Gap
- 1970 · Treffpunkte as Self
- 1969 · The New People as
- 1969 · Hello Down There as Harold Webster
- 1964 · Karen as David Rowe III
- Future · Happiness Isn't Everything as Jerry Hamburger
- Future · I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War as Self
- 2023 · Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
- 2022 · Save Christmas as Santa
- 2022 · Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
- 2020 · Stars in the House as Self
- 2019 · Astronaut as Angus
- 2019 · Daughter of the Wolf as Father
- 2019 · Polar as Porter
- 2019 · The Last Laugh as Buddy Green
- 2018 · Asher as Avi
- 2018 · Bayou Caviar as Yuri
- 2018 · Firing Line with Margaret Hoover as Self
- 2018 · Book Club as George
- 2018 · The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer as Self - Guest
- 2017 · Spielberg as Self
- 2017 · Shots Fired as Arlen Cox
- 2016 · Third Party President: Citizen Rocky as Self
- 2015 · Zipper as George Hiller
- 2014 · Squatters as David Silverman
- 2014 · The Real History of Science Fiction as Self
- 2014 · Caserta Palace Dream as Luigi Vanvitelli
- 2013 · Cas & Dylan as Dr. Cas Pepper
- 2013 · Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
- 2013 · Very Good Girls as Danny
- 2012 · Casting By as Self
- 2012 · Coma as Professor Hillside
- 2011 · The Two Million Year Old Boy as Narrator
- 2011 · Bubble Guppies as Captain Acrab
- 2010 · RED as Alexander Dunning
- 2010 · Piranha 3D as Matthew Boyd
- 2010 · Jaws: The Inside Story as Self
- 2010 · Parenthood as Gilliam T. Blount
- 2009 · Leaves of Grass as Pug Rothbaum
- 2009 · My Life in Ruins as Irv Gideon
- 2009 · The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws" as Self
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2008 · W. as Dick Cheney
- 2008 · America Betrayed as Narrator
- 2007 · Tin Man as Mystic Man
- 2007 · Ocean of Fear as Narrator
- 2007 · AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
- 2006 · Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
- 2006 · Poseidon as Richard Nelson
- 2005 · The Reichen Show as Self
- 2005 · Weeds as Warren Schiff
- 2005 · The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Actor
- 2004 · Silver City as Chuck Raven
- 2003 · Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion as Theodore Roosevelt
- 2003 · Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
- 2003 · The John Garfield Story as Self
- 2003 · The Johnstown Flood as narrator
- 2002 · Manassas: End of Innocence as Narrator
- 2001 · R2-D2: Beneath the Dome as Self
- 2001 · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
- 2001 · The Education of Max Bickford as Max Bickford
- 2001 · In Search of Peace as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
- 2001 · The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' as Self
- 2001 · The Old Man Who Read Love Stories as
- 2000 · The Crew as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
- 2000 · Fail Safe as President
- 1999 · Where Are They Now? as Self
- 1999 · Lansky as Meyer Lansky
- 1999 · Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
- 1998 · The Making of 'American Graffiti' as Self
- 1998 · AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self
- 1997 · The Wonderful World of Disney as
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Oliver Twist as Fagin
- 1997 · Night Falls on Manhattan as Sam Vigoda
- 1997 · Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady as Self
- 1997 · Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero as Self
- 1997 · In the Teeth of Jaws as Self
- 1997 · Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- 1996 · The Universal Story as Self
- 1996 · James and the Giant Peach as Centipede (voice)
- 1995 · Mr. Holland's Opus as Glenn Holland
- 1995 · The American President as Senator Rumson
- 1995 · The Frank Skinner Show as Self
- 1995 · The Last Word as Larry
- 1993 · Another Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- 1992 · Lincoln as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1992 · Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (Voice)
- 1991 · What About Bob? as Dr. Leo Marvin
- 1991 · Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as The Player
- 1990 · Postcards from the Edge as Dr. Frankenthal
- 1989 · Always as Pete Sandich
- 1989 · Let It Ride as Jay Trotter
- 1987 · Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as Self
- 1987 · Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- 1987 · Tin Men as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
- 1986 · Stand by Me as The Writer
- 1986 · Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Dave Whiteman
- 1985 · Night of 100 Stars II as Self
- 1984 · The Buddy System as Joe
- 1980 · The Competition as Paul Dietrich
- 1977 · Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Roy Neary
- 1977 · The Sentinel as Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited)
- 1977 · The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play as
- 1977 · The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' as Self
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Jaws as Hooper
- 1974 · New England Our Way as Self
- 1974 · The Second Coming of Suzanne as Clavius
- 1973 · Me as Greg
- 1973 · American Graffiti as Curt Henderson
- 1973 · Dillinger as Baby Face Nelson
- 1973 · Catch-22 as Yossarian
- 1972 · The Shadow of a Gunman as Tommy Owen
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1969 · Room 222 as
- 1968 · The Mod Squad as
- 1968 · The Young Runaways as Terry
- 1967 · Valley of the Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
- 1967 · The Graduate as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
- 1967 · Judd for the Defense as
- 1966 · Occasional Wife as
- 1966 · Felony Squad as
- 1966 · Hey Landlord! as
- 1966 · That Girl as
- 1965 · The Big Valley as Lud
- 1965 · Gidget as
- 1964 · Bewitched as
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1961 · Ben Casey as
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Gearshon Gorofsky
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Ocean of Fear as Narrator (voice)