Richard Dreyfuss
October 29, 1947 (78 years old) in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
Credits
- 2025 · Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
- 2025 · Waltzing with Brando as Seymour Kraft
- 2025 · Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story as Self
- 2025 · Into the Deep as Seamus
- 2023 · Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
- 2023 · Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
- 2022 · Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Every Last One of Them as Murphy
- 2021 · Crime Story as Ben Myers
- 2019 · Astronaut as Angus
- 2019 · The Last Laugh as Buddy Green
- 2018 · Bayou Caviar as Yuri
- 2013 · Very Good Girls as Danny
- 2009 · The Lightkeepers as Seth
- 2009 · The Shark Is Still Working as Self
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2007 · AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
- 2005 · The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Actor
- 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
- 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 Antonio Bolivar
- 2000 · The Crew as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
- 1999 · Lansky as Meyer Lansky
- 1998 · Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
- 1997 · The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 · Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
- 1997 · Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady as Self
- 1996 · Mad Dog Time as Vic
- 1996 · The Universal Story as Self
- 1994 · Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · Another Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- 1993 · Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz
- 1992 · Lincoln as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
- 1989 · Let It Ride as Jay Trotter
- 1987 · Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
- 1987 · James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
- 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
- 1976 · Victory at Entebbe as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
- 1975 · Inserts as Boy Wonder
- 1964 · Karen as David Rowe III
- Future · Happiness Isn't Everything as Jerry Hamburger
- 2023 · Commitment to Life as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Save Christmas as Santa
- 2022 · Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
- 2022 · Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies as Self - (archive footage)
- 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 · Firing Line with Margaret Hoover as Self
- 2018 · Third Party President: Citizen Rocky 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 · 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 · Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
- 2013 · Milius as Self
- 2012 · Casting By as Self
- 2012 · Coma as Professor Hillside
- 2011 · The Two Million Year Old Boy as Narrator
- 2011 · Bubble Guppies as Captain Acrab
- 2010 · RED as Alexander Dunning
- 2010 · Piranha 3D as Matthew Boyd
- 2010 · Jaws: The Inside Story as Self
- 2010 · Parenthood as Gilliam T. Blount
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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 · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
- 2001 · The Education of Max Bickford as Max Bickford
- 2001 · In Search of Peace as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
- 2000 · Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me as Self
- 2000 · Fail Safe as President
- 1999 · Where Are They Now? as Self
- 1999 · Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
- 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 Wonderful World of Disney as
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Oliver Twist as Fagin
- 1997 · HARDtalk as
- 1997 · Night Falls on Manhattan as Sam Vigoda
- 1997 · Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero as Self
- 1997 · In the Teeth of Jaws as Self
- 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 Making of 'Jaws' as Self
- 1995 · The American President as Senator Rumson
- 1995 · The Frank Skinner Show as Self
- 1995 · The Last Word as Larry
- 1994 · It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1992 · Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · Prisoner of Honor as Col. Picquart
- 1991 · What About Bob? as Dr. Leo Marvin
- 1991 · Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as The Player
- 1991 · Once Around as Sam Sharpe
- 1990 · Postcards from the Edge as Dr. Frankenthal
- 1990 · American Chronicles as narrator
- 1989 · Always as Pete Sandich
- 1988 · Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
- 1987 · Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as Self
- 1987 · Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- 1987 · Tin Men as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
- 1986 · Stand by Me as The Writer
- 1986 · Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Dave Whiteman
- 1985 · Night of 100 Stars II as Self
- 1984 · The Buddy System as Joe
- 1977 · Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Roy Neary
- 1977 · The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
- 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 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 1975 · Jaws as Hooper
- 1974 · New England Our Way as Self
- 1974 · The Second Coming of Suzanne as Clavius
- 1974 · The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Duddy
- 1973 · Me as Greg
- 1973 · American Graffiti as Curt Henderson
- 1973 · Dillinger as Baby Face Nelson
- 1973 · Catch-22 as Yossarian
- 1973 · A Touch of Grace as
- 1972 · The Shadow of a Gunman as Tommy Owen
- 1972 · Two for the Money as Morris Gap
- 1971 · The New Dick Van Dyke Show as Tony Injijikian
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1970 · Treffpunkte as Self
- 1969 · The New People as
- 1969 · Room 222 as
- 1969 · Hello Down There as Harold Webster
- 1968 · The Mod Squad as
- Future · Killing Winston Jones as Winston Jones
- Future · Ocean of Fear as Narrator (voice)
- 1968 · The Young Runaways as Terry
- 1967 · Valley of the Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
- 1967 · The Graduate as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
- 1967 · Judd for the Defense as
- 1967 · The Second Hundred Years as Ben Jr.
- 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 · 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