Richard Dreyfuss
Acting • Born 1947-10-29
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
185 credits
Stand by Me
Movie • 1986
The Writer
Poseidon
Movie • 2006
Richard Nelson
Jaws
Movie • 1975
Hooper
Mr. Holland's Opus
Movie • 1995
Glenn Holland
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Movie • 2022
Narrator (voice)
W.
Movie • 2008
Dick Cheney
James and the Giant Peach
Movie • 1996
Centipede (voice)
American Graffiti
Movie • 1973
Curt Henderson
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Movie • 1977
Roy Neary
What About Bob?
Movie • 1991
Dr. Leo Marvin
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Movie • 1994
Self
Tin Men
Movie • 1987
Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Stakeout
Movie • 1987
Det. Chris Lecce
Always
Movie • 1989
Pete Sandich
Victory at Entebbe
Movie • 1976
Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Fail Safe
Movie • 2000
President
My Life in Ruins
Movie • 2009
Irv Gideon
Catch-22
Movie • 1973
Yossarian
Postcards from the Edge
Movie • 1990
Dr. Frankenthal
Krippendorf's Tribe
Movie • 1998
Prof. Krippendorf
Waltzing with Brando
Movie • 2025
Seymour Kraft
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Movie • 1981
Ken Harrison
Inserts
Movie • 1975
Boy Wonder
Another Stakeout
Movie • 1993
Det. Chris Lecce
The American President
Movie • 1995
Senator Rumson
Who Is Cletis Tout?
Movie • 2001
Micah Donnelly
Leaves of Grass
Movie • 2009
Pug Rothbaum
Moon Over Parador
Movie • 1988
Jack Noah
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Movie • 1986
Dave Whiteman
Citizen Steve
Movie • 1987
Jedediah
Lost in Yonkers
Movie • 1993
Louie Kurnitz
Dillinger
Movie • 1973
Baby Face Nelson
Nuts
Movie • 1987
Aaron Levinsky
The Competition
Movie • 1980
Paul Dietrich
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Movie • 1977
Self
The Big Fix
Movie • 1978
Moses Wine
Hello Down There
Movie • 1969
Harold Webster
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Movie • 1974
Duddy
The Goodbye Girl
Movie • 1977
Elliot Garfield
Piranha 3D
Movie • 2010
Matthew Boyd
The Buddy System
Movie • 1984
Joe
Night Falls on Manhattan
Movie • 1997
Sam Vigoda
RED
Movie • 2010
Alexander Dunning
Mad Dog Time
Movie • 1996
Vic
Once Around
Movie • 1991
Sam Sharpe
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Movie • 2003
Self
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Movie • 2001
Antonio Bolivar
Oliver Twist
Movie • 1997
Fagin
Silent Fall
Movie • 1994
Dr. Jake Rainer
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Movie • 2023
Self
The Sentinel
Movie • 1977
Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
Silver City
Movie • 2004
Chuck Raven
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Movie • 1991
The Player
The Lightkeepers
Movie • 2009
Seth
Let It Ride
Movie • 1989
Jay Trotter
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Movie • 2001
Alexander Haig
The Crew
Movie • 2000
Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Very Good Girls
Movie • 2013
Danny
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Movie • 1997
Narrator (voice)
Lansky
Movie • 1999
Meyer Lansky
The Shark Is Still Working
Movie • 2009
Self
Frank Capra's American Dream
Movie • 1997
Self
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Movie • 2005
Self - Actor
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Movie • 2003
Theodore Roosevelt
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Movie • 2000
Self
Paranoia
Movie • 2013
Frank Cassidy
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Movie • 2004
Narrator
In the Teeth of Jaws
Movie • 1997
Self
Cas & Dylan
Movie • 2013
Dr. Cas Pepper
The Two Million Year Old Boy
Movie • 2011
Narrator
Murder at Yellowstone City
Movie • 2022
Edgar
Prisoner of Honor
Movie • 1991
Col. Picquart
Sweetwater
Movie • 2023
Maurice Podoloff
The Young Runaways
Movie • 1968
Terry
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Movie • 1974
Clavius
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie • 2009
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
Squatters
Movie • 2014
David Silverman
Coast to Coast
Movie • 2004
Barnaby Pierce
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Movie • 1997
Self
The Shadow of a Gunman
Movie • 1972
Tommy Owen
The Graduate
Movie • 1967
Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
The Making of 'Jaws'
Movie • 1995
Self
Audrey
Movie • 2020
Self - Actor
The Last Word
Movie • 1995
Larry
Zipper
Movie • 2015
George Hiller
Milius
Movie • 2013
Self
Me
Movie • 1973
Greg
Caserta Palace Dream
Movie • 2014
Luigi Vanvitelli
Save Christmas
Movie • 2022
Santa
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
Movie • 1977
Valley of the Dolls
Movie • 1967
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Movie • 1997
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie • 1985
Self
Jaws: The Inside Story
Movie • 2010
Self
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Movie
Self
America Betrayed
Movie • 2008
Narrator
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Movie • 2007
Self
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Movie • 2018
Self
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Movie • 1998
Self
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Movie • 1998
Narrator
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Movie • 2009
Self
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Movie • 1987
Self
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Movie • 2001
Self
Spielberg
Movie • 2017
Self
Book Club
Movie • 2018
George
Bayou Caviar
Movie • 2018
Yuri
Asher
Movie • 2018
Avi
The Universal Story
Movie • 1996
Self
Ocean of Fear
Movie • 2007
Narrator
The Last Laugh
Movie • 2019
Buddy Green
Polar
Movie • 2019
Porter
Daughter of the Wolf
Movie • 2019
Father
Astronaut
Movie • 2019
Angus
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self
New England Our Way
Movie • 1974
Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Movie • 2001
Scoop the Snowman (voice)
The Johnstown Flood
Movie • 2003
narrator
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Movie • 2001
Self
In Search of Peace
Movie • 2001
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
The John Garfield Story
Movie • 2003
Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Movie • 2007
Self
Manassas: End of Innocence
Movie • 2002
Narrator
Every Last One of Them
Movie • 2021
Murphy
Crime Story
Movie • 2021
Ben Myers
Two for the Money
Movie • 1972
Morris Gap
Casting By
Movie • 2012
Self
Lincoln
Movie • 1992
William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Movie • 2006
Self
Into the Deep
Movie • 2025
Seamus
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Movie • 2025
Self
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Movie • 2025
Self - (archive footage)
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Movie • 2009
Self
The Dish on Dolls
Movie • 2006
Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
Killing Winston Jones
Movie
Winston Jones
Weeds
TV • 2005
Warren Schiff
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
Gidget
TV • 1965
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
That Girl
TV • 1966
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Room 222
TV • 1969
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Gearshon Gorofsky
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
TV • 2018
Self - Guest
Bewitched
TV • 1964
Felony Squad
TV • 1966
The Education of Max Bickford
TV • 2001
Max Bickford
Karen
TV • 1964
David Rowe III
Hey Landlord!
TV • 1966
Tin Man
TV • 2007
Mystic Man
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
The New People
TV • 1969
Occasional Wife
TV • 1966
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
The Frank Skinner Show
TV • 1995
Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1997
Where Are They Now?
TV • 1999
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
A Touch of Grace
TV • 1973
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Shots Fired
TV • 2017
Arlen Cox
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
TV • 2018
Self
Your Family or Mine
TV • 2015
Louis
Coma
TV • 2012
Professor Hillside
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
Madoff
TV • 2016
Bernie Madoff
Ocean of Fear
TV
Narrator (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
The Reichen Show
TV • 2005
Self
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Lud
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
TV • 1992
Narrator (voice)
Happiness Isn't Everything
TV
Jerry Hamburger
Stars in the House
TV • 2020
Self
The Real History of Science Fiction
TV • 2014
Self
Parenthood
TV • 2010
Gilliam T. Blount
Treffpunkte
TV • 1970
Self
Bubble Guppies
TV • 2011
Captain Acrab
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
The Entertainment Biz
TV • 1998
Self
The Second Hundred Years
TV • 1967
Ben Jr.
HARDtalk
TV • 1997