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
- Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story as Self
- Into the Deep as Seamus
- Waltzing with Brando as Seymour Kraft
2023
- Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
- Commitment to Life as Self (archive footage)
- Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
2022
- Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
- Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
- Save Christmas as Santa
2021
- Every Last One of Them as Murphy
- Crime Story as Ben Myers
2020
- Stars in the House as Self
- Audrey as Self - Actor
2019
- Polar as Porter
- Daughter of the Wolf as Father
- The Last Laugh as Buddy Green
- Astronaut as Angus
2018
- Firing Line with Margaret Hoover as Self
- The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer as Self - Guest
- Book Club as George
- Asher as Avi
- Bayou Caviar as Yuri
- Third Party President: Citizen Rocky as Self
2017
- Spielberg as Self
- Shots Fired as Arlen Cox
2016
- Madoff as Bernie Madoff
2015
- Your Family or Mine as Louis
- Zipper as George Hiller
2014
- The Real History of Science Fiction as Self
- Squatters as David Silverman
- Caserta Palace Dream as Luigi Vanvitelli
2013
- Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
- Very Good Girls as Danny
- Milius as Self
- Cas & Dylan as Dr. Cas Pepper
2012
- Coma as Professor Hillside
- Casting By as Self
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)
- Leaves of Grass as Pug Rothbaum
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- The Shark Is Still Working as Self
- The Lightkeepers as Seth
- American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist 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
- The Dish on Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
2005
- Weeds as Warren Schiff
- The Reichen Show as Self
- The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Actor
2004
- Coast to Coast as Barnaby Pierce
- Silver City as Chuck Raven
- 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
- The Johnstown Flood as narrator
- Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion as Theodore Roosevelt
2002
- Manassas: End of Innocence as Narrator
2001
- The Education of Max Bickford as Max Bickford
- R2-D2: Beneath the Dome as Self
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
- Who Is Cletis Tout? as Micah Donnelly
- The Day Reagan Was Shot as Alexander Haig
- In Search of Peace as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
- The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' as Self
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories as Antonio Bolivar
2000
- The Crew as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
- Fail Safe as President
- 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
- The Entertainment Biz as Self
- Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
- The Making of 'American Graffiti' as Self
- Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude as Narrator
1997
- The View as Self
- The Wonderful World of Disney
- HARDtalk
- Night Falls on Manhattan as Sam Vigoda
- The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Narrator (voice)
- Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero as Self
- Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
- Oliver Twist as Fagin
- In the Teeth of Jaws as Self
- Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady as Self
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- James and the Giant Peach as Centipede (voice)
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- Mad Dog Time as Vic
- The Universal Story as Self
1995
- The Frank Skinner Show as Self
- The American President as Senator Rumson
- Mr. Holland's Opus as Glenn Holland
- The Making of 'Jaws' as Self
- The Last Word as Larry
- Present Tense, Past Perfect ... (Director)
1994
- Quiz Show ... (Executive Producer)
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
- Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer
1993
- Another Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (voice)
- Lincoln as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
1991
- What About Bob? as Dr. Leo Marvin
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as The Player
- Once Around as Sam Sharpe
- Prisoner of Honor as Col. Picquart
1990
- Postcards from the Edge as Dr. Frankenthal
- American Chronicles as narrator
1989
- Always as Pete Sandich
- Let It Ride as Jay Trotter
1988
- Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
1987
- Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
- Tin Men as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
- Citizen Steve as Jedediah
- Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as Self
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
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Roy Neary
- The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
- The Sentinel as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
- 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
- New England Our Way as Self
- The Second Coming of Suzanne as Clavius
1973
- American Graffiti as Curt Henderson
- Dillinger as Baby Face Nelson
- A Touch of Grace
- Me as Greg
- Catch-22 as Yossarian
1972
- Two for the Money as Morris Gap
- The Shadow of a Gunman as Tommy Owen
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- The New Dick Van Dyke Show as Tony Injijikian
1970
- Treffpunkte as Self
1969
- Room 222
- The New People
- Hello Down There as Harold Webster
1968
- The Mod Squad
- The Young Runaways as Terry
1967
- Judd, for the Defense
- The Graduate as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
- The Second Hundred Years as Ben Jr.
- Valley of the Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
1965
- The Big Valley as Lud
- Gidget
1962
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Ben Casey
1955
- Gunsmoke as Gearshon Gorofsky
1953
- The Oscars as Self