Richard Dreyfuss
An American actor best known for starring in a number of 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. Dreyfuss 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Dreyfuss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Oct 29, 1947 In Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 127
- First Appeared:
- Movie Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies 2025-11-21
- Latest Project:
- In the series Happiness Isn't Everything
Known For
Filmography
| Series | Happiness Isn't Everything | Jerry Hamburger | 2027 |
| Movie | Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies | Self - (archive footage) | 2025-11-21 |
| Movie | Waltzing with Brando | Seymour Kraft | 2025-09-19 |
| Movie | Into the Deep | Seamus | 2025-01-23 |
| Movie | Sweetwater | Maurice Podoloff | 2023-04-14 |
| Movie | Save Christmas | Santa | 2022-12-01 |
| Movie | Murder at Yellowstone City | Edgar | 2022-06-24 |
| Movie | Crime Story | Ben Myers | 2021-08-13 |
| Movie | Every Last One of Them | Murphy | 2021-10-22 |
| Movie | Audrey | Self | 2020-11-30 |
| Movie | Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies | Self (archive footage) | 2020-08-18 |
| Movie | The Last Laugh | Buddy Green | 2019-01-11 |
| Movie | Daughter of the Wolf | Father | 2019-06-14 |
| Movie | Polar | Porter | 2019-01-25 |
| Movie | Astronaut | Angus | 2019-07-26 |
| Movie | Book Club | George | 2018-05-18 |
| Movie | Bayou Caviar | Yuri | 2018-10-05 |
| Movie | Third Party President: Citizen Rocky | himself | 2018-06-18 |
| Movie | Asher | Avi | 2018-12-07 |
| Movie | Spielberg | Himself | 2017-10-05 |
| Series | Shots Fired | Arlen Cox | 2017-03-22 |
| Series | Madoff | Bernie Madoff | 2016-02-03 |
| Series | Your Family or Mine | Louis | 2015-04-08 |
| Movie | Zipper | George Hiller | 2015-08-28 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | 2014-02-01 | |
| Movie | Squatters | David Silverman | 2014-05-14 |
| Movie | Caserta Palace Dream | Luigi Vanvitelli | 2014-03-18 |
| Movie | Very Good Girls | Danny | 2013-01-22 |
| Movie | Milius | Himself | 2013-03-09 |
| Movie | Paranoia | Frank Cassidy | 2013-08-14 |
| Movie | Cas & Dylan | Dr. Cas Pepper | 2013-09-17 |
| Series | Coma | Professor Hillside | 2012-09-03 |
| Movie | Casting By | Himself | 2012-11-01 |
| Movie | RED | Alexander Dunning | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | Piranha 3D | Matthew Boyd | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | The Shark Is Still Working | Himself | 2009-05-02 |
| Movie | My Life in Ruins | Irv Gideon | 2009-06-05 |
| Movie | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Himself | 2009-01-16 |
| Movie | The Lightkeepers | Seth | 2009-12-18 |
| Movie | Leaves of Grass | Pug Rothbaum | 2009-09-13 |
| Movie | Waking Sleeping Beauty | David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage) | 2009-09-05 |
| Movie | W. | Dick Cheney | 2008-10-17 |
| Movie | America Betrayed | Narrator | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo | Self | 2007-01-01 |
| Series | Tin Man | Mystic Man | 2007-12-02 |
| Movie | AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition | Himself | 2007-06-20 |
| Movie | Poseidon | Richard Nelson | 2006-05-03 |
| Movie | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Himself | 2006-06-13 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Himself - Actor | 2005-04-05 |
| Movie | A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope | Narrator | 2004-09-14 |
| Movie | Coast to Coast | Barnaby Pierce | 2004-04-03 |
| Movie | Silver City | Chuck Raven | 2004-09-17 |
| Movie | The John Garfield Story | Self | 2003-02-03 |
| Movie | Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion | Theodore Roosevelt | 2003-05-27 |
| Movie | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Himself | 2003-03-09 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' | Himself | 2001-05-08 |
| Movie | The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | 2001-03-07 | |
| Movie | Who Is Cletis Tout? | Micah Donnelly | 2001-09-12 |
| Movie | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys | Scoop the Snowman (voice) | 2001-10-30 |
| Movie | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig | 2001-12-09 |
| Movie | In Search of Peace | Yitzhak Rabin (voice) | 2001-09-21 |
| Movie | R2-D2: Beneath the Dome | Self | 2001-11-25 |
| Series | The Education of Max Bickford | Max Bickford | 2001-09-23 |
| Movie | Fail Safe | President | 2000-04-09 |
| Movie | The Crew | Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator | 2000-08-21 |
| Movie | Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me | Himself | 2000-08-29 |
| Movie | Lansky | Meyer Lansky | 1999-02-27 |
| Movie | Krippendorf's Tribe | Prof. Krippendorf | 1998-02-27 |
| Movie | Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude | Narrator | 1998-10-06 |
| Movie | The Making of 'American Graffiti' | Himself | 1998-09-15 |
| Movie | In the Teeth of Jaws | Self | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | Night Falls on Manhattan | Sam Vigoda | 1997-03-21 |
| Movie | Oliver Twist | Fagin | 1997-05-15 |
| Movie | Frank Capra's American Dream | Himself | 1997-05-18 |
| Movie | The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon | Narrator (voice) | 1997-06-22 |
| Movie | James and the Giant Peach | Centipede (voice) | 1996-04-12 |
| Movie | The Universal Story | Himself | 1996-04-21 |
| Movie | Mad Dog Time | Vic | 1996-11-08 |
| Movie | The American President | Senator Bob Rumson | 1995-11-17 |
| Movie | The Last Word | Larry | 1995-08-27 |
| Movie | Mr. Holland's Opus | Glenn Holland | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Jaws' | Himself | 1995-11-28 |
| Movie | Silent Fall | Dr. Jacob W. "Jake" Rainer | 1994-10-28 |
| Movie | It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | Himself | 1994-10-25 |
| Movie | Another Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | 1993-07-22 |
| Movie | Lost in Yonkers | Louie Kurnitz | 1993-05-14 |
| Movie | Lincoln | 1992-12-26 | |
| Movie | Once Around | Sam | 1991-01-18 |
| Movie | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | The Player | 1991-02-08 |
| Movie | What About Bob? | Dr. Leo Marvin | 1991-05-17 |
| Movie | Prisoner of Honor | Col. Picquart | 1991-11-02 |
| Movie | Postcards from the Edge | Doctor Frankenthal | 1990-09-14 |
| Movie | Let It Ride | Jay Trotter | 1989-08-18 |
| Movie | Always | Pete Sandich | 1989-12-22 |
| Movie | Moon Over Parador | Jack Noah / President Alphonse Simms | 1988-09-09 |
| Movie | Citizen Steve | Jedediah | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Tin Men | Bill 'BB' Babowsky | 1987-03-06 |
| Movie | Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | Self | 1987-10-12 |
| Movie | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Himself | 1987-03-13 |
| Movie | Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | 1987-08-05 |
| Movie | Nuts | Aaron Levinsky | 1987-11-20 |
| Movie | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | David 'Dave' Whiteman | 1986-01-31 |
| Movie | Stand by Me | The Writer | 1986-08-08 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 |
| Movie | The Buddy System | Joe | 1984-05-04 |
| Movie | Whose Life Is It Anyway? | Ken Harrison | 1981-12-02 |
| Movie | The Competition | Paul Dietrich | 1980-12-03 |
| Movie | The Big Fix | Moses Wine | 1978-10-06 |
| Movie | The Sentinel | Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited) | 1977-01-07 |
| Movie | The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield | 1977-11-27 |
| Movie | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Roy Neary | 1977-12-14 |
| Movie | Victory at Entebbe | Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu | 1976-12-22 |
| Movie | Inserts | Boy Wonder | 1975-02-20 |
| Movie | Jaws | Matt Hooper | 1975-06-20 |
| Movie | New England Our Way | Himself | 1974-12-09 |
| Movie | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Duddy | 1974-04-11 |
| Movie | The Second Coming of Suzanne | Clavius | 1974-10-04 |
| Movie | Catch-22 | Yossarian | 1973-05-21 |
| Movie | American Graffiti | Curt Henderson | 1973-08-11 |
| Movie | Dillinger | Baby Face Nelson | 1973-07-20 |
| Movie | The Shadow of a Gunman | Tommy Owen | 1972-12-04 |
| Movie | Two for the Money | Morris Gap | 1972-02-26 |
| Movie | Hello Down There | Harold Webster | 1969-06-25 |
| Movie | The Young Runaways | Terry | 1968-09-11 |
| Movie | Valley of the Dolls | Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited) | 1967-12-27 |
| Movie | The Graduate | Boarding House Student | 1967-12-21 |
| Series | Karen | David Rowe III | 1964-10-05 |