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 · Waltzing with Brando as Seymour Kraft
- 2025 · Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story as Self
- 2025 · Into the Deep as Seamus
- 2023 · Commitment to Life as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Every Last One of Them as Murphy
- 2021 · Crime Story as Ben Myers
- 2019 · Astronaut as Angus
- 2018 · Asher as Avi
- 2018 · Bayou Caviar as Yuri
- 2014 · Squatters as David Silverman
- 2013 · Cas & Dylan as Dr. Cas Pepper
- 2013 · Milius as Self
- 2012 · Casting By as Self
- 2009 · The Lightkeepers as Seth
- 2009 · The Shark Is Still Working as Self
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2004 · Silver City as Chuck Raven
- 2004 · A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope as Narrator
- 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 · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
- 2001 · Who Is Cletis Tout? as Micah Donnelly
- 2000 · Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me as Self
- 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 · Oliver Twist as Fagin
- 1996 · The Universal Story as Self
- 1995 · The Last Word as Larry
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz
- 1991 · Prisoner of Honor as Col. Picquart
- 1991 · Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as The Player
- 1991 · Once Around as Sam Sharpe
- 1988 · Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
- 1987 · Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
- 1987 · James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
- 1986 · Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Dave Whiteman
- 1985 · Night of 100 Stars II as Self
- 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
- 1973 · Me as Greg
- 1973 · Dillinger as Baby Face Nelson
- 1973 · Catch-22 as Yossarian
- 1973 · A Touch of Grace as
- 1972 · Two for the Money as Morris Gap
- 1969 · Hello Down There as Harold Webster
- Future · Happiness Isn't Everything as Jerry Hamburger
- 2023 · Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
- 2023 · Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
- 2022 · Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Save Christmas as Santa
- 2022 · Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
- 2020 · Audrey as Self - Actor
- 2020 · Stars in the House as Self
- 2019 · Daughter of the Wolf as Father
- 2019 · Polar as Porter
- 2019 · The Last Laugh as Buddy Green
- 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 · The Real History of Science Fiction as Self
- 2014 · Caserta Palace Dream as Luigi Vanvitelli
- 2013 · Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
- 2013 · Very Good Girls as Danny
- 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 · Spielberg on Spielberg as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
- 2007 · The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo as Self
- 2006 · The Dish on Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
- 2006 · Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
- 2006 · Poseidon as Richard Nelson
- 2005 · The Reichen Show as Self
- 2005 · Weeds as Warren Schiff
- 2005 · The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Actor
- 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 · The Day Reagan Was Shot as Alexander Haig
- 2001 · R2-D2: Beneath the Dome as Self
- 2001 · The Education of Max Bickford as Max Bickford
- 2001 · In Search of Peace as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
- 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
- 2000 · Fail Safe as President
- 1999 · Where Are They Now? as Self
- 1999 · Lansky as Meyer Lansky
- 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 · 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
- 1995 · The Making of 'Jaws' as Self
- 1987 · Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as Self
- 1981 · Whose Life Is It Anyway? as Ken Harrison
- Future · Killing Winston Jones as Winston Jones
- 1994 · 100 Years at the Movies as Self (archive footage)
- 1984 · The Buddy System as Joe
- 1974 · New England Our Way as Self
- Future · Ocean of Fear as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 · Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady as Self
- 1996 · Mad Dog Time as Vic
- 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 American President as Senator Rumson
- 1995 · The Frank Skinner Show as Self
- 1994 · Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer
- 1994 · It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
- 1993 · Another Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- 1992 · Lincoln as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1992 · Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · What About Bob? as Dr. Leo Marvin
- 1990 · Postcards from the Edge as Dr. Frankenthal
- 1990 · American Chronicles as narrator
- 1989 · Always as Pete Sandich
- 1989 · Let It Ride as Jay Trotter
- 1987 · Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- 1987 · Tin Men as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
- 1987 · Citizen Steve as Jedediah
- 1986 · Stand by Me as The Writer
- 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 · The Second Coming of Suzanne as Clavius
- 1974 · The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Duddy
- 1973 · American Graffiti as Curt Henderson
- 1972 · The Shadow of a Gunman as Tommy Owen
- 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
- 1968 · The Mod Squad as
- 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 · Karen as David Rowe III
- 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



