Richard Dreyfuss
October 29, 1947 (76 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
- 2022 · Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
- 2021 · Every Last One of Them as Murphy
- 2020 · Audrey as Self - Actor
- 2020 · Stars in the House as Self
- 2019 · Daughter of the Wolf as Father
- 2019 · Polar as Porter
- 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 · Madoff as Bernie Madoff
- 2015 · Zipper as George Hiller
- 2015 · Your Family or Mine as Louis
- 2014 · The Real History of Science Fiction as Self
- 2013 · Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
- 2013 · Very Good Girls as Danny
- 2012 · Coma as Professor Hillside
- 2010 · RED as Alexander Dunning
- 2010 · Piranha 3D as Matthew Boyd
- 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
- 2007 · Tin Man as Mystic Man
- 2006 · Poseidon as Richard Nelson
- 2005 · The Reichen Show as Self
- 2005 · Weeds as Warren Schiff
- 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
- 2000 · The Crew as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
- 1999 · Where Are They Now? as Self
- 1999 · Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
- 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 · Oliver Twist as Fagin
- 1997 · Night Falls on Manhattan as Sam Vigoda
- 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 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · Another Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- 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 Doctor Frankenthal
- 1989 · Always as Pete Sandich
- 1987 · Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
- 1987 · Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- 1986 · Stand by Me as The Writer
- 1986 · Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Dave Whiteman
- 1977 · Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Roy Neary
- 1977 · The Sentinel as Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Jaws as Matt Hooper
- 1973 · American Graffiti as Curt Henderson
- 1973 · Dillinger as Baby Face Nelson
- 1973 · A Touch of Grace as
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1970 · Treffpunkte as Self
- 1969 · The New People as
- 1969 · Room 222 as
- 1968 · The Mod Squad as
- 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 · Ben Casey as
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Gearshon Gorofsky
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Happiness Isn't Everything as Jerry Hamburger
- 2023 · Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
- 2021 · Crime Story as Ben Myers
- 2019 · Astronaut as Angus
- 2019 · The Last Laugh as Buddy Green
- 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
- 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
- 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, Drugs and 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
- 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 · Fail Safe as President
- 1999 · Lansky as Meyer Lansky
- 1998 · Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
- 1997 · Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
- 1996 · Mad Dog Time as Vic
- 1996 · The Universal Story as Himself
- 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
- 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
- 1988 · Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
- 1987 · Tin Men as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
- 1985 · Night of 100 Stars II as Self
- 1981 · Whose Life Is It Anyway? as Ken Harrison
- 1977 · The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
- 1975 · Inserts as Boy Wonder
- Future · Ocean of Fear as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
- 2022 · Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Save Christmas as Santa
- 2016 · Third Party President: Citizen Rocky as himself
- 2014 · Caserta Palace Dream as Luigi Vanvitelli
- 2012 · The Two Million Year Old Boy as Narrator
- 2010 · Jaws: The Inside Story as Self
- 2008 · America Betrayed as Narrator
- 2007 · Ocean of Fear as Narrator
- 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
- 2006 · Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
- 2005 · The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Actor
- 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 · In Search of Peace as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
- 1998 · Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude as Narrator
- 1998 · The Making of 'American Graffiti' as Self
- 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
- 1995 · The Last Word as Larry
- 1992 · Lincoln as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
- 1987 · Citizen Steve as Jedediah
- 1984 · The Buddy System as Joe
- 1980 · The Competition as Paul Dietrich
- 1978 · The Big Fix as Moses Wine
- 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
- 1974 · New England Our Way as Himself
- 1974 · The Second Coming of Suzanne as Clavius
- 1974 · The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Duddy
- 1973 · Me as Greg
- 1973 · Catch-22 as Yossarian
- 1972 · The Shadow of a Gunman as Tommy Owen
- 1972 · Two for the Money as Morris Gap
- 1969 · Hello Down There as Harold Webster
- 1968 · The Young Runaways as Terry
- 1964 · Karen as David Rowe III
- Future · Waltzing With Brando as Seymour Kraft
- Future · I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War as Self