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

  1. 2025Into the Deep1h 30mSeamus
  2. 2025Waltzing with Brando1h 44mSeymour Kraft
  3. 2023Sweetwater1h 59mMaurice Podoloff
  4. 2023Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life1h 28mSelf
  5. 2022Save Christmas1h 30mSanta
  6. 2022Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony1h 29mNarrator (voice)
  7. 2022Murder at Yellowstone City2h 6mEdgar
  8. 2021Crime Story1h 38mBen Myers
  9. 2021Every Last One of Them1h 22mMurphy
  10. 2020Audrey1h 41mSelf - Actor
  11. 2019Astronaut1h 37mAngus
  12. 2019The Last Laugh1h 38mBuddy Green
  13. 2019Daughter of the Wolf1h 28mFather
  14. 2019Polar1h 58mPorter
  15. 2018Asher1h 57mAvi
  16. 2018Bayou Caviar1h 51mYuri
  17. 2018Book Club1h 44mGeorge
  18. 2018Third Party President: Citizen RockySelf
  19. 2017Spielberg2h 27mSelf
  20. 2017Shots Fired1 seasonArlen Cox
  21. 2016Madoff1 seasonBernie Madoff
  22. 2015Your Family or Mine1 seasonLouis
  23. 2015Zipper1h 43mGeorge Hiller
  24. 2014Squatters1h 42mDavid Silverman
  25. 2014Caserta Palace Dream21mLuigi Vanvitelli
  26. 2013Cas & Dylan1h 30mDr. Cas Pepper
  27. 2013Very Good Girls1h 31mDanny
  28. 2013Paranoia1h 46mFrank Cassidy
  29. 2013Milius1h 43mSelf
  30. 2012Coma1 seasonProfessor Hillside
  31. 2011The Two Million Year Old Boy45mNarrator
  32. 2010RED1h 51mAlexander Dunning
  33. 2010Jaws: The Inside Story1h 30mSelf
  34. 2010Piranha 3D1h 28mMatthew Boyd
  35. 2009The Lightkeepers1h 36mSeth
  36. 2009My Life in Ruins1h 35mIrv Gideon
  37. 2009Leaves of Grass1h 44mPug Rothbaum
  38. 2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale40mSelf
  39. 2009American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist1h 18mSelf
  40. 2009The Shark Is Still Working1h 43mSelf
  41. 2008America Betrayed1h 34mNarrator
  42. 2008W.2h 9mDick Cheney
  43. 2007Ocean of Fear2hNarrator
  44. 2007Tin Man1 seasonMystic Man
  45. 2007Spielberg on Spielberg1h 26mSelf (archive footage)
  46. 2007The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo1h 18mSelf
  47. 2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition2h 9mSelf
  48. 2006The Dish on Dolls6mAssistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
  49. 2006Poseidon1h 38mRichard Nelson
  50. 2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters1h 15mSelf
  51. 2005The Adventures of Errol Flynn1h 27mSelf - Actor
  52. 2004A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope1h 4mNarrator
  53. 2004Coast to Coast1h 48mBarnaby Pierce
  54. 2004Silver City2h 8mChuck Raven
  55. 2003Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion3h 45mTheodore Roosevelt
  56. 2003The Johnstown Flood1h 4mnarrator
  57. 2003Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion1 seasonVoice of Theodore Roosevelt
  58. 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood1h 59mSelf
  59. 2003The John Garfield Story58mSelf
  60. 2002Manassas: End of Innocence45mNarrator
  61. 2001The Day Reagan Was Shot1h 38mAlexander Haig
  62. 2001The Education of Max Bickford1 seasonMax Bickford
  63. 2001The Old Man Who Read Love Stories1h 55mAntonio Bolivar
  64. 2001Who Is Cletis Tout?1h 32mMicah Donnelly
  65. 2001Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys1h 14mScoop the Snowman (voice)
  66. 2001R2-D2: Beneath the Dome20mSelf
  67. 2001The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'1h 41mSelf
  68. 2000The Crew1h 28mBobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
  69. 2000Fail Safe1h 26mPresident
  70. 2000Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me37mSelf
  71. 1999Lansky1h 56mMeyer Lansky
  72. 1998Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude54mNarrator
  73. 1998Krippendorf's Tribe1h 34mProf. Krippendorf
  74. 1998The Making of 'American Graffiti'1h 18mSelf
  75. 1997Oliver Twist1h 31mFagin
  76. 1997The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon1h 31mNarrator (voice)
  77. 1997Night Falls on Manhattan1h 53mSam Vigoda
  78. 1997In the Teeth of Jaws50mSelf
  79. 1997Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady45mSelf
  80. 1997Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero45mSelf
  81. 1997Frank Capra's American Dream1h 55mSelf
  82. 1996Mad Dog Time1h 33mVic
  83. 1996James and the Giant Peach1h 19mCentipede (voice)
  84. 1996The Universal Story2hSelf
  85. 1995Mr. Holland's Opus2h 23mGlenn Holland
  86. 1995The Last Word1h 34mLarry
  87. 1995The American President1h 53mSenator Rumson
  88. 1995The Making of 'Jaws'2h 5mSelf
  89. 1995Present Tense, Past Perfect30mDirector
  90. 1994Silent Fall1h 41mDr. Jake Rainer
  91. 1994It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein1h 37mSelf
  92. 1994Quiz Show2h 13mExecutive Producer
  93. 1993Lost in Yonkers1h 54mLouie Kurnitz
  94. 1993Another Stakeout1h 49mDet. Chris Lecce
  95. 1991Prisoner of Honor1h 28mCol. Picquart
  96. 1991Once Around1h 55mSam Sharpe
  97. 1991What About Bob?1h 40mDr. Leo Marvin
  98. 1991Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead1h 57mThe Player
  99. 1990American Chronicles1 seasonnarrator
  100. 1990Postcards from the Edge1h 41mDr. Frankenthal
  101. 1989Always2h 2mPete Sandich
  102. 1989Let It Ride1h 30mJay Trotter
  103. 1988Moon Over Parador1h 43mJack Noah
  104. 1987Stakeout1h 56mDet. Chris Lecce
  105. 1987Tin Men1h 52mBill 'BB' Babowsky
  106. 1987Nuts1h 56mAaron Levinsky
  107. 1987Citizen Steve24mJedediah
  108. 1987Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville1hSelf
  109. 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life1h 27mSelf
  110. 1986Down and Out in Beverly Hills1h 43mDave Whiteman
  111. 1986An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.2h
  112. 1986Stand by Me1h 29mThe Writer
  113. 1984The Buddy System1h 50mJoe
  114. 1981Whose Life Is It Anyway?1h 59mKen Harrison
  115. 1980The Competition2h 3mPaul Dietrich
  116. 1978The Big Fix1h 48mMoses Wine
  117. 1977The Goodbye Girl1h 51mElliot Garfield
  118. 1977Close Encounters of the Third Kind2h 17mRoy Neary
  119. 1977The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play9m
  120. 1977The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'18mSelf
  121. 1976Victory at Entebbe1h 59mColonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
  122. 1975Inserts1h 57mBoy Wonder
  123. 1975Jaws2h 4mHooper
  124. 1974The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz2hDuddy
  125. 1974The Second Coming of Suzanne1h 30mClavius
  126. 1974New England Our Way51mSelf
  127. 1973American Graffiti1h 52mCurt Henderson
  128. 1973Catch-2228mYossarian
  129. 1973Me58mGreg
  130. 1973Dillinger1h 47mBaby Face Nelson
  131. 1972The Shadow of a Gunman1h 30mTommy Owen
  132. 1972Two for the Money1h 13mMorris Gap
  133. 1969Hello Down There1h 28mHarold Webster
  134. 1968The Young Runaways1h 31mTerry
  135. 1967The Graduate1h 47mBoarding House Resident (uncredited)
  136. 1964Karen1 seasonDavid Rowe III
  137. Killing Winston Jones1h 39mWinston Jones
  138. Happiness Isn't Everything1 seasonJerry Hamburger
  139. Ocean of Fear1 seasonNarrator (voice)
  140. I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with WarSelf