
Richard Dreyfuss
October 29, 1947 (77 years old) in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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. 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
- 2025 · Into the Deep as Seamus
- 2024 · Waltzing with Brando as Seymour Kraft
- 2023 · Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
- 2023 · Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
- 2021 · Every Last One of Them as Murphy
- 2020 · Audrey as Self - Actor
- 2019 · Astronaut as Angus
- 2019 · The Last Laugh as Buddy Green
- 2018 · Bayou Caviar as Yuri
- 2015 · Zipper as George Hiller
- 2013 · Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
- 2012 · Coma as Professor Hillside
- 2009 · The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws" as Self
- 2007 · AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
- 2006 · Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
- 2005 · The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Actor
- 2004 · Silver City as Chuck Raven
- 2004 · A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope as Narrator
- 2003 · Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
- 2001 · The Day Reagan Was Shot as Alexander Haig
- 2001 · R2-D2: Beneath the Dome as Self
- 1998 · The Making of 'American Graffiti' as Self
- 1997 · The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 · Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero as Self
- 1997 · Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
- 1996 · The Universal Story as Self
- 1995 · The Making of 'Jaws' as Self
- 1995 · The Last Word as Larry
- 1993 · Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz
- 1991 · What About Bob? as Dr. Leo Marvin
- 1991 · Once Around as Sam Sharpe
- 1989 · Always as Pete Sandich
- 1987 · Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as Self
- 1987 · Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- 1987 · Citizen Steve as Jedediah
- 1984 · The Buddy System as Joe
- 1980 · The Competition as Paul Dietrich
- 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
- 1969 · The New People as
- 1969 · Hello Down There as Harold Webster
- 1966 · Occasional Wife as
- Future · Happiness Isn't Everything as Jerry Hamburger
- 2022 · Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Save Christmas as Santa
- 2022 · Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
- 2021 · Crime Story as Ben Myers
- 2020 · Stars in the House as Self
- 2019 · Daughter of the Wolf as Father
- 2019 · Polar as Porter
- 2018 · Asher as Avi
- 2018 · Firing Line with Margaret Hoover as Self
- 2018 · Third Party President: Citizen Rocky 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 · Madoff as Bernie Madoff
- 2015 · Your Family or Mine as Louis
- 2014 · Squatters as David Silverman
- 2014 · The Real History of Science Fiction as Self
- 2014 · Caserta Palace Dream as Luigi Vanvitelli
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Cas & Dylan as Dr. Cas Pepper
- 2013 · Milius as Self
- 2013 · Very Good Girls as Danny
- 2012 · Casting By as Self
- 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 · The Lightkeepers as Seth
- 2009 · Leaves of Grass as Pug Rothbaum
- 2009 · Waking Sleeping Beauty as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
- 2009 · My Life in Ruins as Irv Gideon
- 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 · The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo as Self
- 2006 · Poseidon as Richard Nelson
- 2005 · The Reichen Show as Self
- 2005 · Weeds as Warren Schiff
- 2004 · Coast to Coast as Barnaby Pierce
- 2003 · Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion as Theodore Roosevelt
- 2003 · The John Garfield Story as Self
- 2003 · The Johnstown Flood as narrator
- 2002 · Manassas: End of Innocence as Narrator
- 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 · Who Is Cletis Tout? as Micah Donnelly
- 2001 · The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' as Self
- 2001 · The Old Man Who Read Love Stories as
- 2000 · Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me as Self
- 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 · Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude as Narrator
- 1998 · AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self
- 1998 · Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
- 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 · In the Teeth of Jaws as Self
- 1996 · Mad Dog Time as Vic
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- 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
- 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 · 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 · Prisoner of Honor as Col. Picquart
- 1991 · Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as The Player
- 1990 · Postcards from the Edge as Dr. Frankenthal
- 1989 · Let It Ride as Jay Trotter
- 1988 · James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
- 1988 · Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
- 1987 · Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
- 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
- 1981 · Whose Life Is It Anyway? as Ken Harrison
- 1978 · The Big Fix as Moses Wine
- 1977 · Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Roy Neary
- 1977 · The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
- 1977 · The Sentinel as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
- 1977 · The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' as Self
- 1977 · The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play as
- 1976 · Victory at Entebbe as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
- 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
- 1970 · Treffpunkte 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 · Felony Squad as
- 1966 · Hey Landlord! as
- 1966 · That Girl as
- 1965 · The Big Valley as Lud
- 1965 · Gidget as
- 1964 · Karen as David Rowe III
- 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)
- Future · I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War as Self