Richard Dreyfuss
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Oct 29, 1947 (78 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For
| 2025 | Waltzing with BrandoSeymour Kraft | |
| 2025 | Into the DeepSeamus | |
| 2025 | Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside StorySelf | |
| 2025 | Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror MoviesSelf - (archive footage) | |
| 2023 | Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched LifeSelf | |
| 2023 | SweetwaterMaurice Podoloff | |
| 2022 | Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost TestimonyNarrator (voice) | |
| 2022 | Murder at Yellowstone CityEdgar | |
| 2022 | Save ChristmasSanta | |
| 2022 | Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction MoviesSelf - (archive footage) | |
| 2021 | Every Last One of ThemMurphy | |
| 2021 | Crime StoryBen Myers | |
| 2020 | AudreySelf - Actor | |
| 2020 | Stars in the HouseSelf | |
| 2019 | The Last LaughBuddy Green | |
| 2019 | PolarPorter | |
| 2019 | Daughter of the WolfFather | |
| 2019 | AstronautAngus | |
| 2018 | Third Party President: Citizen RockySelf | |
| 2018 | Book ClubGeorge | |
| 2018 | Bayou CaviarYuri | |
| 2018 | AsherAvi | |
| 2018 | The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To CancerSelf - Guest | |
| 2018 | Firing Line with Margaret HooverSelf | |
| 2017 | SpielbergSelf | |
| 2017 | Shots FiredArlen Cox | |
| 2016 | MadoffBernie Madoff | |
| 2015 | ZipperGeorge Hiller | |
| 2015 | Your Family or MineLouis | |
| 2014 | SquattersDavid Silverman | |
| 2014 | Caserta Palace DreamLuigi Vanvitelli | |
| 2014 | The Real History of Science FictionSelf | |
| 2013 | Very Good GirlsDanny | |
| 2013 | ParanoiaFrank Cassidy | |
| 2013 | Cas & DylanDr. Cas Pepper | |
| 2013 | MiliusSelf | |
| 2012 | Casting BySelf | |
| 2012 | ComaProfessor Hillside | |
| 2011 | The Two Million Year Old BoyNarrator | |
| 2011 | Bubble GuppiesCaptain Acrab | |
| 2010 | Piranha 3DMatthew Boyd | |
| 2010 | REDAlexander Dunning | |
| 2010 | Jaws: The Inside StorySelf | |
| 2010 | ParenthoodGilliam T. Blount | |
| 2009 | My Life in RuinsIrv Gideon | |
| 2009 | Leaves of GrassPug Rothbaum | |
| 2009 | The LightkeepersSeth | |
| 2009 | The Shark Is Still WorkingSelf | |
| 2009 | Waking Sleeping BeautyDavid 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage) | |
| 2009 | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John CazaleSelf | |
| 2009 | American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical HumanistSelf | |
| 2008 | W.Dick Cheney | |
| 2008 | America BetrayedNarrator | |
| 2007 | AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary EditionSelf | |
| 2007 | Ocean of FearNarrator | |
| 2007 | The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. AlonzoSelf | |
| 2007 | Tin ManMystic Man | |
| 2006 | PoseidonRichard Nelson | |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and BlockbustersSelf | |
| 2006 | The Dish on DollsAssistant Stage Manager (archive footage) | |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Errol FlynnSelf - Actor | |
| 2005 | WeedsWarren Schiff | |
| 2005 | The Reichen ShowSelf | |
| 2004 | Silver CityChuck Raven | |
| 2004 | A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American ZoetropeNarrator | |
| 2004 | Coast to CoastBarnaby Pierce | |
| 2003 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved HollywoodSelf | |
| 2003 | Teddy Roosevelt: An American LionTheodore Roosevelt | |
| 2003 | The Johnstown Floodnarrator | |
| 2003 | The John Garfield StorySelf | |
| 2002 | Manassas: End of InnocenceNarrator | |
| 2001 | Who Is Cletis Tout?Micah Donnelly | |
| 2001 | The Old Man Who Read Love StoriesAntonio Bolivar | |
| 2001 | The Day Reagan Was ShotAlexander Haig | |
| 2001 | The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'Self | |
| 2001 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit ToysScoop the Snowman (voice) | |
| 2001 | R2-D2: Beneath the DomeSelf | |
| 2001 | In Search of PeaceYitzhak Rabin (voice) | |
| 2001 | The Education of Max BickfordMax Bickford | |
| 2000 | Fail SafePresident | |
| 2000 | The CrewBobby Bartellemeo / Narrator | |
| 2000 | Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by MeSelf | |
| 1999 | LanskyMeyer Lansky | |
| 1999 | Family GuyRichard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) | |
| 1999 | Where Are They Now?Self | |
| 1999 | Family GuyRichard Dreyfuss (voice) | |
| 1998 | Krippendorf's TribeProf. Krippendorf | |
| 1998 | The Making of 'American Graffiti'Self | |
| 1998 | Lost at Sea: The Search for LongitudeNarrator | |
| 1998 | The Entertainment BizSelf | |
| 1997 | Night Falls on ManhattanSam Vigoda | |
| 1997 | Oliver TwistFagin | |
| 1997 | The Call of the Wild: Dog of the YukonNarrator (voice) | |
| 1997 | Frank Capra's American DreamSelf | |
| 1997 | In the Teeth of JawsSelf | |
| 1997 | Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest LadySelf | |
| 1997 | Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet HeroSelf | |
| 1997 | The ViewSelf | |
| 1997 | The Wonderful World of Disney | |
| 1997 | HARDtalk | |
| 1996 | James and the Giant PeachCentipede (voice) | |
| 1996 | Mad Dog TimeVic | |
| 1996 | The Universal StorySelf | |
| 1996 | The Daily ShowSelf | |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell ShowSelf - Guest | |
| 1995 | Mr. Holland's OpusGlenn Holland | |
| 1995 | The American PresidentSenator Rumson | |
| 1995 | The Making of 'Jaws'Self | |
| 1995 | The Last WordLarry | |
| 1995 | The Frank Skinner ShowSelf | |
| 1994 | It's Alive: The True Story of FrankensteinSelf | |
| 1994 | Silent FallDr. Jake Rainer | |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors StudioSelf | |
| 1993 | Another StakeoutDet. Chris Lecce | |
| 1993 | Lost in YonkersLouie Kurnitz | |
| 1992 | LincolnWilliam Tecumsah Sherman (voice) | |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | |
| 1992 | Shelley Duvall's Bedtime StoriesNarrator (voice) | |
| 1991 | What About Bob?Dr. Leo Marvin | |
| 1991 | Once AroundSam Sharpe | |
| 1991 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are DeadThe Player | |
| 1991 | Prisoner of HonorCol. Picquart | |
| 1990 | Postcards from the EdgeDr. Frankenthal | |
| 1990 | American Chroniclesnarrator | |
| 1989 | AlwaysPete Sandich | |
| 1989 | Let It RideJay Trotter | |
| 1988 | Moon Over ParadorJack Noah | |
| 1987 | Tin MenBill 'BB' Babowsky | |
| 1987 | StakeoutDet. Chris Lecce | |
| 1987 | Citizen SteveJedediah | |
| 1987 | NutsAaron Levinsky | |
| 1987 | Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional VaudevilleSelf | |
| 1987 | James Stewart: A Wonderful LifeSelf | |
| 1986 | Stand by MeThe Writer | |
| 1986 | Down and Out in Beverly HillsDave Whiteman | |
| 1985 | Night of 100 Stars IISelf | |
| 1984 | The Buddy SystemJoe | |
| 1981 | Whose Life Is It Anyway?Ken Harrison | |
| 1980 | The CompetitionPaul Dietrich | |
| 1978 | The Big FixMoses Wine | |
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third KindRoy Neary | |
| 1977 | The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'Self | |
| 1977 | The Goodbye GirlElliot Garfield | |
| 1977 | The SentinelMan on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited) | |
| 1977 | The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play | |
| 1976 | Victory at EntebbeColonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu | |
| 1975 | JawsHooper | |
| 1975 | InsertsBoy Wonder | |
| 1975 | Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host | |
| 1974 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy KravitzDuddy | |
| 1974 | The Second Coming of SuzanneClavius | |
| 1974 | New England Our WaySelf | |
| 1973 | American GraffitiCurt Henderson | |
| 1973 | Catch-22Yossarian | |
| 1973 | DillingerBaby Face Nelson | |
| 1973 | MeGreg | |
| 1973 | A Touch of Grace | |
| 1972 | The Shadow of a GunmanTommy Owen | |
| 1972 | Two for the MoneyMorris Gap | |
| 1971 | Great PerformancesSelf | |
| 1970 | TreffpunkteSelf | |
| 1969 | Hello Down ThereHarold Webster | |
| 1969 | Room 222 | |
| 1969 | The New People | |
| 1968 | The Young RunawaysTerry | |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad | |
| 1967 | The GraduateBoarding House Resident (uncredited) | |
| 1967 | Valley of the DollsAssistant Stage Manager (uncredited) | |
| 1967 | Judd for the Defense | |
| 1967 | The Second Hundred YearsBen Jr. | |
| 1966 | That Girl | |
| 1966 | Felony Squad | |
| 1966 | Hey Landlord! | |
| 1966 | Occasional Wife | |
| 1965 | Gidget | |
| 1965 | The Big ValleyLud | |
| 1964 | Bewitched | |
| 1964 | KarenDavid Rowe III | |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf | |
| 1961 | Ben Casey | |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas ShowSelf | |
| 1955 | GunsmokeGearshon Gorofsky | |
| 1953 | The OscarsSelf | |
| - | I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with WarSelf | |
| - | Killing Winston JonesWinston Jones | |
| - | Ocean of FearNarrator (voice) | |
| - | Happiness Isn't EverythingJerry Hamburger |
| 2022 | Murder at Yellowstone CityExecutive Producer | |
| 2021 | Every Last One of ThemExecutive Producer | |
| 2021 | Crime StoryExecutive Producer | |
| 2019 | AstronautExecutive Producer | |
| 1997 | Oliver TwistCo-Producer | |
| 1994 | Quiz ShowExecutive Producer | |
| 1991 | Once AroundCo-Producer | |
| 1987 | Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional VaudevilleProducer | |
| 1978 | The Big FixProducer |
| 1995 | Present Tense, Past PerfectDirector |
| 1987 | Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional VaudevilleWriter |