Richard Dreyfuss
Born: 1947-10-29 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For: Acting
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 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.
Filmography
2025
- Into the Deep as Seamus
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
- Waltzing with Brando as Seymour Kraft
- Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story as Self
2023
- Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
- Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
2022
- Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
- Save Christmas as Santa
- Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
2021
- Crime Story as Ben Myers
- Every Last One of Them as Murphy
2020
- Stars in the House as Self
- Audrey as Self - Actor
2019
- Polar as Porter
- Daughter of the Wolf as Father
- Astronaut as Angus
- The Last Laugh as Buddy Green
2018
- Bayou Caviar as Yuri
- Firing Line with Margaret Hoover as Self
- Asher as Avi
- Book Club as George
- The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer as Self - Guest
- Third Party President: Citizen Rocky as Self
2017
- Spielberg as Self
- Shots Fired as Arlen Cox
2016
- Madoff as Bernie Madoff
2015
- Zipper as George Hiller
- Your Family or Mine as Louis
2014
- The Real History of Science Fiction as Self
- Caserta Palace Dream as Luigi Vanvitelli
- Squatters as David Silverman
2013
- Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
- Cas & Dylan as Dr. Cas Pepper
- Very Good Girls as Danny
- Milius as Self
2012
- Casting By as Self
- Coma as Professor Hillside
2011
- Bubble Guppies as Captain Acrab
- The Two Million Year Old Boy as Narrator
2010
- Parenthood as Gilliam T. Blount
- RED as Alexander Dunning
- Piranha 3D as Matthew Boyd
- Jaws: The Inside Story as Self
2009
- My Life in Ruins as Irv Gideon
- Waking Sleeping Beauty as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- Leaves of Grass as Pug Rothbaum
- The Lightkeepers as Seth
- The Shark Is Still Working as Self
2008
- W. as Dick Cheney
- America Betrayed as Narrator
2007
- Tin Man as Mystic Man
- AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
- The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo as Self
- Ocean of Fear as Narrator
2006
- Poseidon as Richard Nelson
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
2005
- Weeds as Warren Schiff
- The Reichen Show as Self
- The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Actor
2004
- Silver City as Chuck Raven
- Coast to Coast as Barnaby Pierce
- 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
- The John Garfield Story as Self
- Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion as Theodore Roosevelt
- The Johnstown Flood as narrator
2002
- Manassas: End of Innocence as Narrator
2001
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
- R2-D2: Beneath the Dome as Self
- The Day Reagan Was Shot as Alexander Haig
- Who Is Cletis Tout? as Micah Donnelly
- The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' as Self
- The Education of Max Bickford as Max Bickford
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
- In Search of Peace as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2000
- Fail Safe as President
- The Crew as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
- Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me as Self
1999
- Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
- Where Are They Now? as Self
- Lansky as Meyer Lansky
1998
- Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
- The Making of 'American Graffiti' as Self
- The Entertainment Biz as Self
- Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude as Narrator
1997
- The View as Self
- Oliver Twist as Fagin
- The Wonderful World of Disney
- Night Falls on Manhattan as Sam Vigoda
- The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Narrator (voice)
- In the Teeth of Jaws as Self
- Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
- Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady as Self
- Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero as Self
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- James and the Giant Peach as Centipede (voice)
- Mad Dog Time as Vic
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- The Universal Story as Self
1995
- The Frank Skinner Show as Self
- Mr. Holland's Opus as Glenn Holland
- The American President as Senator Rumson
- The Making of 'Jaws' as Self
- The Last Word as Larry
- Present Tense, Past Perfect ... (Director)
1994
- Quiz Show ... (Executive Producer)
- Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
1993
- Another Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Lincoln as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
- Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (voice)
1991
- Once Around as Sam Sharpe
- Prisoner of Honor as Col. Picquart
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as The Player
- What About Bob? as Dr. Leo Marvin
1990
- Postcards from the Edge as Dr. Frankenthal
1989
- Always as Pete Sandich
- Let It Ride as Jay Trotter
1988
- Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
1987
- Tin Men as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
- Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
- Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as Self
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
- Citizen Steve as Jedediah
1986
- Stand by Me as The Writer
- 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
1980
- The Competition as Paul Dietrich
1978
- The Big Fix as Moses Wine
1977
- The Sentinel as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Roy Neary
- The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
- The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' as Self
- The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1976
- Victory at Entebbe as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- Jaws as Hooper
- Inserts as Boy Wonder
1974
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Duddy
- The Second Coming of Suzanne as Clavius
- New England Our Way as Self
1973
- American Graffiti as Curt Henderson
- Dillinger as Baby Face Nelson
- Me as Greg
- A Touch of Grace
- Catch-22 as Yossarian
1972
- The Shadow of a Gunman as Tommy Owen
- Two for the Money as Morris Gap
1971
- Great Performances as Self
1970
- Treffpunkte as Self
1969
- Room 222
- Hello Down There as Harold Webster
- The New People
1968
- The Mod Squad
- The Young Runaways as Terry
1967
- The Graduate as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
- Judd for the Defense
- Valley of the Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
- The Second Hundred Years as Ben Jr.
1965
- The Big Valley as Lud
- Gidget
1962
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Ben Casey
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1955
- Gunsmoke as Gearshon Gorofsky
1953
- The Oscars as Self