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
- 2025 · Into the Deep as Seamus
- 2024 · Waltzing with Brando as Seymour Kraft
- 2022 · Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Every Last One of Them as Murphy
- 2021 · Crime Story as Ben Myers
- 2019 · Astronaut as Angus
- 2015 · Your Family or Mine as Louis
- 2014 · Squatters as David Silverman
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · Cas & Dylan as Dr. Cas Pepper
- 2013 · Milius as Self
- 2012 · Casting By as Self
- 2012 · Coma as Professor Hillside
- 2009 · The Lightkeepers as Seth
- 2009 · The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws" as Self
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2007 · AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
- 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
- 2003 · Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
- 2001 · The Education of Max Bickford as Max Bickford
- 2001 · Who Is Cletis Tout? as Micah Donnelly
- 2001 · The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' as Self
- 2000 · The Crew as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
- 2000 · Fail Safe as President
- 1999 · Lansky as Meyer Lansky
- 1998 · Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
- 1997 · Oliver Twist as Fagin
- 1996 · Mad Dog Time as Vic
- 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
- 1989 · Let It Ride as Jay Trotter
- 1988 · James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
- 1987 · Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
- 1986 · Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Dave Whiteman
- 1985 · Night of 100 Stars II as Self
- 1984 · The Buddy System as Joe
- 1981 · Whose Life Is It Anyway? as Ken Harrison
- 1976 · Victory at Entebbe as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
- 1974 · The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Duddy
- 1973 · Catch-22 as Yossarian
- 1973 · A Touch of Grace as
- Future · Happiness Isn't Everything as Jerry Hamburger
- 2023 · Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
- 2023 · Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
- 2022 · Save Christmas as Santa
- 2022 · Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
- 2020 · Audrey as Self - Actor
- 2020 · Stars in the House as Self
- 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 · 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 · Zipper as George Hiller
- 2014 · The Real History of Science Fiction as Self
- 2014 · Caserta Palace Dream as Luigi Vanvitelli
- 2013 · Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
- 2013 · Very Good Girls as Danny
- 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 · Waking Sleeping Beauty as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
- 2009 · My Life in Ruins as Irv Gideon
- 2008 · W. as Dick Cheney
- 2008 · America Betrayed as Narrator
- 2007 · Tin Man as Mystic Man
- 2007 · Ocean of Fear as Narrator
- 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 · The John Garfield Story as Self
- 2003 · The Johnstown Flood as narrator
- 2002 · Manassas: End of Innocence as Narrator
- 2001 · The Day Reagan Was Shot as Alexander Haig
- 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 · In Search of Peace as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
- 2001 · The Old Man Who Read Love Stories as
- 2000 · Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me as Self
- 1999 · Where Are They Now? as Self
- 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 · 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 · The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Narrator (voice)
- 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 · Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
- 1997 · In the Teeth of Jaws 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 Making of 'Jaws' as Self
- 1995 · The American President as Senator Rumson
- 1995 · The Frank Skinner Show as Self
- 1995 · The Last Word as Larry
- 1994 · Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer
- 1994 · It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein 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 · 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
- 1988 · Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
- 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
- 1987 · Citizen Steve as Jedediah
- 1986 · Stand by Me as The Writer
- 1980 · The Competition as Paul Dietrich
- 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
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Jaws as Hooper
- 1975 · Inserts as Boy Wonder
- 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
- 1972 · The Shadow of a Gunman as Tommy Owen
- 1972 · Two for the Money as Morris Gap
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1970 · Treffpunkte as Self
- 1969 · The New People as
- 1969 · Room 222 as
- 1969 · Hello Down There as Harold Webster
- 1968 · The Mod Squad as
- Future · Ocean of Fear as Narrator (voice)
- Future · I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War as Self
- 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 · 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