- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- October 29, 1947
- Place of Birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Richard Dreyfuss
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
movieWaltzing with Brando
2025 · Seymour Kraft
movieJaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025 · Self
movieInto the Deep
2025 · Seamus
movieElizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023 · Self
movieSweetwater
2023 · Maurice Podoloff
movieCommitment to Life
2023 · Self (archive footage)
movieNazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022 · Narrator (voice)
movieSave Christmas
2022 · Santa
movieMurder at Yellowstone City
2022 · Edgar, Executive Producer
movieEvery Last One of Them
2021 · Murphy, Executive Producer
movieCrime Story
2021 · Ben Myers, Executive Producer
movieAudrey
2020 · Self - Actor
tvStars in the House
2020 · Self
movieAstronaut
2019 · Angus, Executive Producer
movieDaughter of the Wolf
2019 · Father
moviePolar
2019 · Porter
movieThe Last Laugh
2019 · Buddy Green
movieAsher
2018 · Avi
movieBayou Caviar
2018 · Yuri
tvFiring Line with Margaret Hoover
2018 · Self
movieThird Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018 · Self
movieBook Club
2018 · George
tvThe Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 · Self - Guest
movieSpielberg
2017 · Self
tvShots Fired
2017 · Arlen Cox
tvMadoff
2016 · Bernie Madoff
movieZipper
2015 · George Hiller
tvYour Family or Mine
2015 · Louis
movieSquatters
2014 · David Silverman
tvThe Real History of Science Fiction
2014 · Self
movieCaserta Palace Dream
2014 · Luigi Vanvitelli
movieCas & Dylan
2013 · Dr. Cas Pepper
movieParanoia
2013 · Frank Cassidy
movieMilius
2013 · Self
movieVery Good Girls
2013 · Danny
movieCasting By
2012 · Self
tvComa
2012 · Professor Hillside
movieThe Two Million Year Old Boy
2011 · Narrator
tvBubble Guppies
2011 · Captain Acrab
movieRED
2010 · Alexander Dunning
moviePiranha 3D
2010 · Matthew Boyd
movieJaws: The Inside Story
2010 · Self
tvParenthood
2010 · Gilliam T. Blount
movieThe Lightkeepers
2009 · Seth
movieLeaves of Grass
2009 · Pug Rothbaum
movieWaking Sleeping Beauty
2009 · David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
movieMy Life in Ruins
2009 · Irv Gideon
movieThe Shark Is Still Working
2009 · Self
movieI Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009 · Self
movieAmerican Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009 · Self
movieW.
2008 · Dick Cheney
movieAmerica Betrayed
2008 · Narrator
tvTin Man
2007 · Mystic Man
movieOcean of Fear
2007 · Narrator
movieSpielberg on Spielberg
2007 · Self (archive footage)
movieAFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007 · Self
movieThe Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007 · Self
movieBoffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006 · Self
movieThe Dish on Dolls
2006 · Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
moviePoseidon
2006 · Richard Nelson
tvThe Reichen Show
2005 · Self
tvWeeds
2005 · Warren Schiff
movieThe Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005 · Self - Actor
movieSilver City
2004 · Chuck Raven
movieA Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004 · Narrator
movieCoast to Coast
2004 · Barnaby Pierce
movieTeddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003 · Theodore Roosevelt
movieEasy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003 · Self
movieThe John Garfield Story
2003 · Self
movieThe Johnstown Flood
2003 · narrator
movieManassas: End of Innocence
2002 · Narrator
movieThe Day Reagan Was Shot
2001 · Alexander Haig
movieR2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001 · Self
movieRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001 · Scoop the Snowman (voice)
tvThe Education of Max Bickford
2001 · Max Bickford
movieIn Search of Peace
2001 · Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
movieWho Is Cletis Tout?
2001 · Micah Donnelly
movieThe Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001 · Self
movieThe Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001 · Antonio Bolivar
movieWalking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000 · Self
movieThe Crew
2000 · Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
movieFail Safe
2000 · President
Where Are They Now?
1999 · Self
movieLansky
1999 · Meyer Lansky
tvFamily Guy
1999 · Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice), Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
movieLost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998 · Narrator
movieThe Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998 · Self
movieKrippendorf's Tribe
1998 · Prof. Krippendorf
The Entertainment Biz
1998 · Self
tvThe Wonderful World of Disney
1997
tvThe View
1997 · Self
movieThe Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997 · Narrator (voice)
movieFrank Capra's American Dream
1997 · Self
movieOliver Twist
1997 · Fagin, Co-Producer
tvHARDtalk
1997
movieNight Falls on Manhattan
1997 · Sam Vigoda
movieAudrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997 · Self
movieHenry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997 · Self
movieIn the Teeth of Jaws
1997 · Self
movieMad Dog Time
1996 · Vic
tvThe Daily Show
1996 · Self
tvThe Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Self - Guest
movieThe Universal Story
1996 · Self
movieJames and the Giant Peach
1996 · Centipede (voice)
movieMr. Holland's Opus
1995 · Glenn Holland
movieThe Making of 'Jaws'
1995 · Self
movieThe American President
1995 · Senator Rumson
tvThe Frank Skinner Show
1995 · Self
movieThe Last Word
1995 · Larry
Present Tense, Past Perfect
1995 · Director
movieSilent Fall
1994 · Dr. Jake Rainer
movieIt's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994 · Self
movieQuiz Show
1994 · Executive Producer
tvInside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
movie100 Years at the Movies
1994 · Self (archive footage)
movieAnother Stakeout
1993 · Det. Chris Lecce
movieLost in Yonkers
1993 · Louie Kurnitz
Lincoln
1992 · William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
tvThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
tvShelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992 · Narrator (voice)
moviePrisoner of Honor
1991 · Col. Picquart
movieWhat About Bob?
1991 · Dr. Leo Marvin
movieRosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991 · The Player
movieOnce Around
1991 · Sam Sharpe, Co-Producer
moviePostcards from the Edge
1990 · Dr. Frankenthal
American Chronicles
1990 · narrator
movieAlways
1989 · Pete Sandich
movieLet It Ride
1989 · Jay Trotter
movieMoon Over Parador
1988 · Jack Noah
movieNuts
1987 · Aaron Levinsky
movieFunny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987 · Self, Writer, Producer
movieStakeout
1987 · Det. Chris Lecce
movieJames Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 · Self
movieTin Men
1987 · Bill 'BB' Babowsky
movieCitizen Steve
1987 · Jedediah
movieStand by Me
1986 · The Writer
movieDown and Out in Beverly Hills
1986 · Dave Whiteman
movieNight of 100 Stars II
1985 · Self
movieThe Buddy System
1984 · Joe
movieWhose Life Is It Anyway?
1981 · Ken Harrison
movieThe Competition
1980 · Paul Dietrich
movieThe Big Fix
1978 · Moses Wine, Producer
movieClose Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Roy Neary
movieThe Goodbye Girl
1977 · Elliot Garfield
movieThe Sentinel
1977 · Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977 · Self
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
movieVictory at Entebbe
1976 · Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
tvSaturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
movieJaws
1975 · Hooper
movieInserts
1975 · Boy Wonder
movieNew England Our Way
1974 · Self
movieThe Second Coming of Suzanne
1974 · Clavius
movieThe Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974 · Duddy
movieMe
1973 · Greg
movieAmerican Graffiti
1973 · Curt Henderson
movieDillinger
1973 · Baby Face Nelson
movieCatch-22
1973 · Yossarian
tvA Touch of Grace
1973
movieThe Shadow of a Gunman
1972 · Tommy Owen
movieTwo for the Money
1972 · Morris Gap
tvThe New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971 · Tony Injijikian
tvGreat Performances
1971 · Self
Treffpunkte
1970 · Self
tvThe New People
1969
tvRoom 222
1969
movieHello Down There
1969 · Harold Webster
tvThe Mod Squad
1968
movieThe Young Runaways
1968 · Terry
movieValley of the Dolls
1967 · Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
movieThe Graduate
1967 · Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
tvJudd, for the Defense
1967
tvThe Second Hundred Years
1967 · Ben Jr.
tvOccasional Wife
1966
tvFelony Squad
1966
tvHey Landlord!
1966
tvThat Girl
1966
tvGidget
1965
tvThe Big Valley
1965 · Lud
tvKaren
1964 · David Rowe III
tvBewitched
1964
tvThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
tvThe Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
tvBen Casey
1961
tvGunsmoke
1955 · Gearshon Gorofsky
tvThe Oscars
1953 · Self
movieI Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
— · Self
movieKilling Winston Jones
— · Winston Jones
tvOcean of Fear
— · Narrator (voice)
Happiness Isn't Everything
— · Jerry Hamburger