Richard Dreyfuss
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.
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Acting History
2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
2025Waltzing with Brando as Seymour Kraft
2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story as Self
2025Into the Deep as Seamus
2023Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
2023Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
2022Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
2022Save Christmas as Santa
2022Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
2021Every Last One of Them as Murphy
2021Crime Story as Ben Myers
2020Audrey as Self - Actor
2020Stars in the House as Self
2019Astronaut as Angus
2019Daughter of the Wolf as Father
2019Polar as Porter
2019The Last Laugh as Buddy Green
2018Asher as Avi
2018Bayou Caviar as Yuri
2018Firing Line with Margaret Hoover as Self
2018Third Party President: Citizen Rocky as Self
2018Book Club as George
2018The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer as Self - Guest
2017Spielberg as Self
2017Shots Fired as Arlen Cox
2016Madoff as Bernie Madoff
2015Zipper as George Hiller
2015Your Family or Mine as Louis
2014Squatters as David Silverman
2014The Real History of Science Fiction as Self
2014Caserta Palace Dream as Luigi Vanvitelli
2013Cas & Dylan as Dr. Cas Pepper
2013Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
2013Milius as Self
2013Very Good Girls as Danny
2012Casting By as Self
2012Coma as Professor Hillside
2011The Two Million Year Old Boy as Narrator
2011Bubble Guppies as Captain Acrab
2010RED as Alexander Dunning
2010Piranha 3D as Matthew Boyd
2010Jaws: The Inside Story as Self
2010Parenthood as Gilliam T. Blount
2009The Lightkeepers as Seth
2009Leaves of Grass as Pug Rothbaum
2009Waking Sleeping Beauty as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
2009My Life in Ruins as Irv Gideon
2009The Shark Is Still Working as Self
2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
2008W. as Dick Cheney
2008America Betrayed as Narrator
2007Tin Man as Mystic Man
2007Ocean of Fear as Narrator
2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
2007The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo as Self
2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
2006Poseidon as Richard Nelson
2005The Reichen Show as Self
2005Weeds as Warren Schiff
2005The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Actor
2004Silver City as Chuck Raven
2004A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope as Narrator
2004Coast to Coast as Barnaby Pierce
2003Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion as Theodore Roosevelt
2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
2003The John Garfield Story as Self
2003The Johnstown Flood as narrator
2002Manassas: End of Innocence as Narrator
2001The Day Reagan Was Shot as Alexander Haig
2001R2-D2: Beneath the Dome as Self
2001Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
2001The Education of Max Bickford as Max Bickford
2001In Search of Peace as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2001Who Is Cletis Tout? as Micah Donnelly
2001The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' as Self
2001The Old Man Who Read Love Stories as Antonio Bolivar
2000Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me as Self
2000The Crew as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
2000Fail Safe as President
1999Where Are They Now? as Self
1999Lansky as Meyer Lansky
1999Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
1999Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
1998Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude as Narrator
1998The Making of 'American Graffiti' as Self
1998Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
1998The Entertainment Biz as Self
1997The Wonderful World of Disney
1997The View as Self
1997The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Narrator (voice)
1997Oliver Twist as Fagin
1997Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady as Self
1997Night Falls on Manhattan as Sam Vigoda
1997Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero as Self
1997Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
1997In the Teeth of Jaws as Self
1996Mad Dog Time as Vic
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
1996The Universal Story as Self
1996James and the Giant Peach as Centipede (voice)
1995Mr. Holland's Opus as Glenn Holland
1995The Making of 'Jaws' as Self
1995The American President as Senator Rumson
1995The Frank Skinner Show as Self
1995The Last Word as Larry
1994Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer
1994It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
1994Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993Another Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
1993Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz
1992Lincoln as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (voice)
1991Prisoner of Honor as Col. Picquart
1991What About Bob? as Dr. Leo Marvin
1991Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as The Player
1991Once Around as Sam Sharpe
1990Postcards from the Edge as Dr. Frankenthal
1989Always as Pete Sandich
1989Let It Ride as Jay Trotter
1988Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
1987Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
1987Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as Self
1987Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
1987Tin Men as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
1987Citizen Steve as Jedediah
1986Stand by Me as The Writer
1986Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Dave Whiteman
1985Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984The Buddy System as Joe
1981Whose Life Is It Anyway? as Ken Harrison
1980The Competition as Paul Dietrich
1978The Big Fix as Moses Wine
1977Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Roy Neary
1977The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
1977The Sentinel as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
1977The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' as Self
1977The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1976Victory at Entebbe as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Jaws as Hooper
1975Inserts as Boy Wonder
1974New England Our Way as Self
1974The Second Coming of Suzanne as Clavius
1974The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Duddy
1973Me as Greg
1973American Graffiti as Curt Henderson
1973Dillinger as Baby Face Nelson
1973Catch-22 as Yossarian
1973A Touch of Grace
1972The Shadow of a Gunman as Tommy Owen
1972Two for the Money as Morris Gap
1971Great Performances as Self
1970Treffpunkte as Self
1969The New People
1969Room 222
1969Hello Down There as Harold Webster
1968The Mod Squad
1968The Young Runaways as Terry
1967Valley of the Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
1967The Graduate as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
1967Judd for the Defense
1967The Second Hundred Years as Ben Jr.
1966Occasional Wife
1966Felony Squad
1966Hey Landlord!
1966That Girl
1965The Big Valley as Lud
1965Gidget
1964Karen as David Rowe III
1964Bewitched
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961Ben Casey
1956Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1955Gunsmoke as Gearshon Gorofsky
1953The Oscars as Self
—Happiness Isn't Everything as Jerry Hamburger
—Ocean of Fear as Narrator (voice)
—I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War as Self