Richard Dreyfuss
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 29 October 1947 · 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
Acting 139
- 2026I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War as Self
- 2026Killing Winston Jones as Winston Jones
- 2025Legacy 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
- 2023Commitment to Life as Self (archive footage)
- 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
- 2020Jaws Toy Movie as Matt Hooper (voice)
- 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
- 2018Third Party President: Citizen Rocky as Self
- 2018Book Club as George
- 2017Spielberg as Self
- 2015Zipper as George Hiller
- 2014Squatters as David Silverman
- 2014Caserta Palace Dream as Luigi Vanvitelli
- 2014And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2013Cas & Dylan as Dr. Cas Pepper
- 2013Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
- 2013Milius as Self
- 2013Very Good Girls as Danny
- 2012Casting By as Self
- 2011The Two Million Year Old Boy as Narrator
- 2010RED as Alexander Dunning
- 2010Piranha 3D as Matthew Boyd
- 2010Jaws: The Inside Story as Self
- 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
- 2009American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist as Self
- 2008W. as Dick Cheney
- 2008America Betrayed as Narrator
- 2007Ocean of Fear as Narrator
- 2007Spielberg on Spielberg as Self (archive footage)
- 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
- 2006The Dish on Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
- 2006Poseidon as Richard Nelson
- 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)
- 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
- 1999Lansky as Meyer Lansky
- 1998Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude as Narrator
- 1998The Making of 'American Graffiti' as Self
- 1998Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
- 1997The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Narrator (voice)
- 1997Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
- 1997Oliver Twist as Fagin
- 1997Night Falls on Manhattan as Sam Vigoda
- 1997Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady as Self
- 1997Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero as Self
- 1997In the Teeth of Jaws as Self
- 1996Mad Dog Time as Vic
- 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 Last Word as Larry
- 1994Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer
- 1994It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
- 1993Another Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
- 1993Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz
- 1992Lincoln as William Tecumsah Sherman (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
- 1986An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
- 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 Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
- 1977The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' as Self
- 1976Victory at Entebbe as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
- 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
- 1972The Shadow of a Gunman as Tommy Owen
- 1972Two for the Money as Morris Gap
- 1969Hello Down There as Harold Webster
- 1968The Young Runaways as Terry
- 1967Valley of the Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
- 1967The Graduate as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Production 9
- 2022Murder at Yellowstone City · executive producer
- 2021Every Last One of Them · executive producer
- 2021Crime Story · executive producer
- 2019Astronaut · executive producer
- 1997Oliver Twist · co-producer
- 1994Quiz Show · executive producer
- 1991Once Around · co-producer
- 1987Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville · producer
- 1978The Big Fix · producer
Directing 1
- 1995Present Tense, Past Perfect · director