Credits

• 2025 · Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
• 2020 · Stars in the House as Self
• 2019 · Polar as Porter
• 2018 · Firing Line with Margaret Hoover as Self
• 2017 · Spielberg as Self
• 2011 · Bubble Guppies as Captain Acrab
• 2010 · RED as Alexander Dunning
• 2010 · Parenthood as Gilliam T. Blount
• 2009 · The Shark Is Still Working as Self
• 2006 · Poseidon as Richard Nelson
• 2005 · The Reichen Show as Self
• 2005 · Weeds as Warren Schiff
• 2004 · A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope as Narrator
• 2001 · Who Is Cletis Tout? as Micah Donnelly
• 2001 · The Old Man Who Read Love Stories as Antonio Bolivar
• 1999 · Where Are They Now? as Self
• 1999 · Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
• 1999 · Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
• 1997 · The Wonderful World of Disney as
• 1997 · The View as Self
• 1997 · In the Teeth of Jaws as Self
• 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
• 1995 · The American President as Senator Rumson
• 1995 · The Frank Skinner Show as Self
• 1994 · Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer
• 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
• 1988 · Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
• 1987 · Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
• 1986 · Stand by Me as The Writer
• 1986 · Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Dave Whiteman
• 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
• 1975 · Jaws as Hooper
• 1972 · Two for the Money as Morris Gap
• 1971 · Great Performances as Self
• 1969 · Room 222 as
• 1968 · The Mod Squad as
• 1967 · The Graduate as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
• 1966 · Felony Squad as
• 1966 · That Girl as
• 1965 · The Big Valley as Lud
• 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
• Future · I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War as Self
• 2025 · Waltzing with Brando as Seymour Kraft
• 2025 · Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story as Self
• 2025 · Into the Deep as Seamus
• 2023 · Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
• 2022 · Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
• 2021 · Every Last One of Them as Murphy
• 2020 · Audrey as Self - Actor
• 2019 · The Last Laugh as Buddy Green
• 2018 · Third Party President: Citizen Rocky as Self
• 2016 · Madoff as Bernie Madoff
• 2015 · Zipper as George Hiller
• 2015 · Your Family or Mine as Louis
• 2013 · Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
• 2013 · Very Good Girls as Danny
• 2012 · Coma as Professor Hillside
• 2009 · Leaves of Grass as Pug Rothbaum
• 2009 · My Life in Ruins as Irv Gideon
• 2007 · AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
• 2004 · Silver City as Chuck Raven
• 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
• 2003 · The John Garfield Story as Self
• 2001 · The Day Reagan Was Shot as Alexander Haig
• 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 · Fail Safe as President
• 1999 · Lansky as Meyer Lansky
• 1998 · Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
• 1997 · Night Falls on Manhattan as Sam Vigoda
• 1997 · Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero as Self
• 1995 · Mr. Holland's Opus as Glenn Holland
• 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
• 1992 · Lincoln as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
• 1991 · Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as The Player
• 1991 · Once Around as Sam Sharpe
• 1990 · Postcards from the Edge as Dr. Frankenthal
• 1987 · Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
• 1985 · Night of 100 Stars II as Self
• 1984 · The Buddy System as Joe
• 1977 · The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
• 1976 · Victory at Entebbe as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
• 1974 · The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Duddy
• 1973 · Dillinger as Baby Face Nelson
• 1973 · A Touch of Grace as
• 1970 · Treffpunkte as Self
• 1969 · The New People as
• Future · Happiness Isn't Everything as Jerry Hamburger
• 2023 · Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
• 2022 · Save Christmas as Santa
• 2022 · Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
• 2021 · Crime Story as Ben Myers
• 2019 · Astronaut as Angus
• 2019 · Daughter of the Wolf as Father
• 2018 · Asher as Avi
• 2018 · Bayou Caviar as Yuri
• 2018 · Book Club as George
• 2018 · The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer as Self - Guest
• 2017 · Shots Fired as Arlen Cox
• 2014 · Squatters as David Silverman
• 2014 · The Real History of Science Fiction as Self
• 2014 · Caserta Palace Dream as Luigi Vanvitelli
• 2013 · Cas & Dylan as Dr. Cas Pepper
• 2013 · Milius as Self
• 2012 · Casting By as Self
• 2011 · The Two Million Year Old Boy as Narrator
• 2010 · Piranha 3D as Matthew Boyd
• 2010 · Jaws: The Inside Story as Self
• 2009 · The Lightkeepers as Seth
• 2009 · Waking Sleeping Beauty as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
• 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
• 2009 · American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist as Self
• 2008 · W. as Dick Cheney
• 2008 · America Betrayed as Narrator
• 2007 · Tin Man as Mystic Man
• 2007 · Ocean of Fear as Narrator
• 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
• 2006 · The Dish on Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
• 2005 · The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Actor
• 2003 · Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion as Theodore Roosevelt
• 2003 · The Johnstown Flood as narrator
• 2002 · Manassas: End of Innocence as Narrator
• 2001 · R2-D2: Beneath the Dome as Self
• 2001 · In Search of Peace as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
• 2001 · The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' as Self
• 2000 · Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me as Self
• 2000 · The Crew as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
• 1998 · Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude as Narrator
• 1998 · The Making of 'American Graffiti' as Self
• 1998 · The Entertainment Biz as Self
• 1997 · The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Narrator (voice)
• 1997 · Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
• 1997 · Oliver Twist as Fagin
• 1997 · Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady as Self
• 1996 · Mad Dog Time as Vic
• 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 · The Making of 'Jaws' as Self
• 1995 · The Last Word as Larry
• 1994 · It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
• 1993 · Another Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
• 1993 · Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz
• 1992 · Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (voice)
• 1991 · Prisoner of Honor as Col. Picquart
• 1991 · What About Bob? as Dr. Leo Marvin
• 1989 · Always as Pete Sandich
• 1989 · Let It Ride as Jay Trotter
• 1987 · Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as Self
• 1987 · James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
• 1987 · Tin Men as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
• 1987 · Citizen Steve as Jedediah
• 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
• 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 · 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 · Catch-22 as Yossarian
• 1972 · The Shadow of a Gunman as Tommy Owen
• 1969 · Hello Down There as Harold Webster
• 1968 · The Young Runaways as Terry
• 1967 · Valley of the Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
• 1967 · Judd for the Defense as
• 1967 · The Second Hundred Years as Ben Jr.
• 1966 · Occasional Wife as
• 1966 · Hey Landlord! as
• 1965 · Gidget as
• 1964 · Karen as David Rowe III
• Future · Ocean of Fear as Narrator (voice)
• Future · Killing Winston Jones as Winston Jones