Actor
Richard Dreyfuss
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.
Films and shows
- 2025
Into the Deep1h 30mSeamus - 2025
Waltzing with Brando1h 44mSeymour Kraft - 2023
Sweetwater1h 59mMaurice Podoloff - 2023
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life1h 28mSelf - 2022
Save Christmas1h 30mSanta - 2022
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony1h 29mNarrator (voice) - 2022
Murder at Yellowstone City2h 6mEdgar - 2021
Crime Story1h 38mBen Myers - 2021
Every Last One of Them1h 22mMurphy - 2020
Audrey1h 41mSelf - Actor - 2019
Astronaut1h 37mAngus - 2019
The Last Laugh1h 38mBuddy Green - 2019
Daughter of the Wolf1h 28mFather - 2019
Polar1h 58mPorter - 2018
Asher1h 57mAvi - 2018
Bayou Caviar1h 51mYuri - 2018
Book Club1h 44mGeorge - 2018
Third Party President: Citizen RockySelf - 2017
Spielberg2h 27mSelf - 2017
Shots Fired1 seasonArlen Cox - 2016
Madoff1 seasonBernie Madoff - 2015
Your Family or Mine1 seasonLouis - 2015
Zipper1h 43mGeorge Hiller - 2014
Squatters1h 42mDavid Silverman - 2014
Caserta Palace Dream21mLuigi Vanvitelli - 2013
Cas & Dylan1h 30mDr. Cas Pepper - 2013
Very Good Girls1h 31mDanny - 2013
Paranoia1h 46mFrank Cassidy - 2013
Milius1h 43mSelf - 2012
Coma1 seasonProfessor Hillside - 2011
The Two Million Year Old Boy45mNarrator - 2010
RED1h 51mAlexander Dunning - 2010
Jaws: The Inside Story1h 30mSelf - 2010
Piranha 3D1h 28mMatthew Boyd - 2009
The Lightkeepers1h 36mSeth - 2009
My Life in Ruins1h 35mIrv Gideon - 2009
Leaves of Grass1h 44mPug Rothbaum - 2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale40mSelf - 2009
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist1h 18mSelf - 2009
The Shark Is Still Working1h 43mSelf - 2008
America Betrayed1h 34mNarrator - 2008
W.2h 9mDick Cheney - 2007
Ocean of Fear2hNarrator - 2007
Tin Man1 seasonMystic Man - 2007
Spielberg on Spielberg1h 26mSelf (archive footage) - 2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo1h 18mSelf - 2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition2h 9mSelf - 2006
The Dish on Dolls6mAssistant Stage Manager (archive footage) - 2006
Poseidon1h 38mRichard Nelson - 2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters1h 15mSelf - 2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn1h 27mSelf - Actor - 2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope1h 4mNarrator - 2004
Coast to Coast1h 48mBarnaby Pierce - 2004
Silver City2h 8mChuck Raven - 2003
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion3h 45mTheodore Roosevelt - 2003
The Johnstown Flood1h 4mnarrator - 2003
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion1 seasonVoice of Theodore Roosevelt - 2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood1h 59mSelf - 2003
The John Garfield Story58mSelf - 2002
Manassas: End of Innocence45mNarrator - 2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot1h 38mAlexander Haig - 2001
The Education of Max Bickford1 seasonMax Bickford - 2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories1h 55mAntonio Bolivar - 2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?1h 32mMicah Donnelly - 2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys1h 14mScoop the Snowman (voice) - 2001
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome20mSelf - 2001
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'1h 41mSelf - 2000
The Crew1h 28mBobby Bartellemeo / Narrator - 2000
Fail Safe1h 26mPresident - 2000
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me37mSelf - 1999
Lansky1h 56mMeyer Lansky - 1998
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude54mNarrator - 1998
Krippendorf's Tribe1h 34mProf. Krippendorf - 1998
The Making of 'American Graffiti'1h 18mSelf - 1997
Oliver Twist1h 31mFagin - 1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon1h 31mNarrator (voice) - 1997
Night Falls on Manhattan1h 53mSam Vigoda - 1997
In the Teeth of Jaws50mSelf - 1997
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady45mSelf - 1997
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero45mSelf - 1997
Frank Capra's American Dream1h 55mSelf - 1996
Mad Dog Time1h 33mVic - 1996
James and the Giant Peach1h 19mCentipede (voice) - 1996
The Universal Story2hSelf - 1995
Mr. Holland's Opus2h 23mGlenn Holland - 1995
The Last Word1h 34mLarry - 1995
The American President1h 53mSenator Rumson - 1995
The Making of 'Jaws'2h 5mSelf - 1995Present Tense, Past Perfect30mDirector
- 1994
Silent Fall1h 41mDr. Jake Rainer - 1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein1h 37mSelf - 1994
Quiz Show2h 13mExecutive Producer - 1993
Lost in Yonkers1h 54mLouie Kurnitz - 1993
Another Stakeout1h 49mDet. Chris Lecce - 1991
Prisoner of Honor1h 28mCol. Picquart - 1991
Once Around1h 55mSam Sharpe - 1991
What About Bob?1h 40mDr. Leo Marvin - 1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead1h 57mThe Player - 1990American Chronicles1 seasonnarrator
- 1990
Postcards from the Edge1h 41mDr. Frankenthal - 1989
Always2h 2mPete Sandich - 1989
Let It Ride1h 30mJay Trotter - 1988
Moon Over Parador1h 43mJack Noah - 1987
Stakeout1h 56mDet. Chris Lecce - 1987
Tin Men1h 52mBill 'BB' Babowsky - 1987
Nuts1h 56mAaron Levinsky - 1987
Citizen Steve24mJedediah - 1987
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville1hSelf - 1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life1h 27mSelf - 1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills1h 43mDave Whiteman - 1986An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.2h
- 1986
Stand by Me1h 29mThe Writer - 1984
The Buddy System1h 50mJoe - 1981
Whose Life Is It Anyway?1h 59mKen Harrison - 1980
The Competition2h 3mPaul Dietrich - 1978
The Big Fix1h 48mMoses Wine - 1977
The Goodbye Girl1h 51mElliot Garfield - 1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind2h 17mRoy Neary - 1977The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play9m
- 1977The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'18mSelf
- 1976
Victory at Entebbe1h 59mColonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu - 1975
Inserts1h 57mBoy Wonder - 1975
Jaws2h 4mHooper - 1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz2hDuddy - 1974
The Second Coming of Suzanne1h 30mClavius - 1974
New England Our Way51mSelf - 1973
American Graffiti1h 52mCurt Henderson - 1973
Catch-2228mYossarian - 1973
Me58mGreg - 1973
Dillinger1h 47mBaby Face Nelson - 1972
The Shadow of a Gunman1h 30mTommy Owen - 1972
Two for the Money1h 13mMorris Gap - 1969
Hello Down There1h 28mHarold Webster - 1968
The Young Runaways1h 31mTerry - 1967
The Graduate1h 47mBoarding House Resident (uncredited) - 1964
Karen1 seasonDavid Rowe III
Killing Winston Jones1h 39mWinston Jones- Happiness Isn't Everything1 seasonJerry Hamburger
Ocean of Fear1 seasonNarrator (voice)
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with WarSelf
