1947-10-29 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.
 |
Waltzing with Brando | Seymour Kraft | 2025-09-19 |
 |
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story | Self | 2025-06-20 |
 |
Into the Deep | Seamus | 2025-01-23 |
 |
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies | Self - (archive footage) | 2025-11-21 |
 |
Sweetwater | Maurice Podoloff | 2023-04-14 |
 |
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life | Self | 2023-04-16 |
 |
Save Christmas | Santa | 2022-12-01 |
 |
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony | Narrator (voice) | 2022-12-05 |
 |
Murder at Yellowstone City | Edgar | 2022-06-24 |
 |
Crime Story | Ben Myers | 2021-08-13 |
 |
Every Last One of Them | Murphy | 2021-10-22 |
 |
Audrey | Self - Actor | 2020-11-30 |
 |
Astronaut | Angus | 2019-07-26 |
 |
Daughter of the Wolf | Father | 2019-06-14 |
 |
Polar | Porter | 2019-01-25 |
 |
The Last Laugh | Buddy Green | 2019-01-11 |
 |
Book Club | George | 2018-05-18 |
 |
Bayou Caviar | Yuri | 2018-10-05 |
 |
Asher | Avi | 2018-12-07 |
 |
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky | Self | 2018-06-18 |
 |
Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
 |
Zipper | George Hiller | 2015-08-28 |
 |
Squatters | David Silverman | 2014-05-14 |
 |
Caserta Palace Dream | Luigi Vanvitelli | 2014-03-18 |
 |
Very Good Girls | Danny | 2013-01-22 |
 |
Milius | Self | 2013-03-09 |
 |
Cas & Dylan | Dr. Cas Pepper | 2013-09-17 |
 |
Paranoia | Frank Cassidy | 2013-08-14 |
 |
Casting By | Self | 2012-11-01 |
 |
The Two Million Year Old Boy | Narrator | 2011-01-26 |
 |
RED | Alexander Dunning | 2010-10-13 |
 |
Piranha 3D | Matthew Boyd | 2010-08-20 |
 |
Jaws: The Inside Story | Self | 2010-06-16 |
 |
The Lightkeepers | Seth | 2009-12-18 |
 |
The Shark Is Still Working | Self | 2009-05-02 |
 |
Waking Sleeping Beauty | David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage) | 2009-09-05 |
 |
Leaves of Grass | Pug Rothbaum | 2009-09-13 |
 |
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self | 2009-01-16 |
 |
My Life in Ruins | Irv Gideon | 2009-06-05 |
 |
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist | Self | 2009-01-01 |
 |
America Betrayed | Narrator | 2008-01-01 |
 |
W. | Dick Cheney | 2008-10-17 |
 |
Ocean of Fear | Narrator | 2007-07-29 |
 |
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo | Self | 2007-01-01 |
 |
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition | Self | 2007-06-20 |
 |
Poseidon | Richard Nelson | 2006-05-03 |
 |
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Self | 2006-06-13 |
 |
The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Self - Actor | 2005-04-05 |
 |
Coast to Coast | Barnaby Pierce | 2004-04-03 |
 |
Silver City | Chuck Raven | 2004-09-17 |
 |
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope | Narrator | 2004-09-14 |
 |
The Johnstown Flood | narrator | 2003-01-01 |
 |
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion | Theodore Roosevelt | 2003-05-27 |
 |
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self | 2003-03-09 |
 |
The John Garfield Story | Self | 2003-02-03 |
 |
Manassas: End of Innocence | Narrator | 2002-02-19 |
 |
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome | Self | 2001-11-25 |
 |
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys | Scoop the Snowman (voice) | 2001-10-30 |
 |
Who Is Cletis Tout? | Micah Donnelly | 2001-09-12 |
 |
The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig | 2001-12-09 |
 |
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | Antonio Bolivar | 2001-03-07 |
 |
In Search of Peace | Yitzhak Rabin (voice) | 2001-09-21 |
 |
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' | Self | 2001-05-08 |
 |
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me | Self | 2000-08-29 |
 |
Fail Safe | President | 2000-04-09 |
 |
The Crew | Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator | 2000-08-21 |
 |
Lansky | Meyer Lansky | 1999-02-27 |
 |
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude | Narrator | 1998-10-06 |
 |
The Making of 'American Graffiti' | Self | 1998-09-15 |
 |
Krippendorf's Tribe | Prof. Krippendorf | 1998-02-27 |
 |
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero | Self | 1997-03-18 |
 |
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady | Self | 1997-03-21 |
 |
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon | Narrator (voice) | 1997-06-22 |
 |
Night Falls on Manhattan | Sam Vigoda | 1997-03-21 |
 |
Oliver Twist | Fagin | 1997-05-15 |
 |
Frank Capra's American Dream | Self | 1997-01-01 |
 |
In the Teeth of Jaws | Self | 1997-01-01 |
 |
James and the Giant Peach | Centipede (voice) | 1996-04-12 |
 |
The Universal Story | Self | 1996-04-21 |
 |
Mad Dog Time | Vic | 1996-11-08 |
 |
The Last Word | Larry | 1995-08-27 |
 |
The Making of 'Jaws' | Self | 1995-11-28 |
 |
Mr. Holland's Opus | Glenn Holland | 1995-12-29 |
 |
The American President | Senator Rumson | 1995-11-17 |
 |
Silent Fall | Dr. Jake Rainer | 1994-10-28 |
 |
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | Self | 1994-10-25 |
 |
Lost in Yonkers | Louie Kurnitz | 1993-05-14 |
 |
Another Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | 1993-07-22 |
 |
Lincoln | William Tecumsah Sherman (voice) | 1992-12-26 |
 |
What About Bob? | Dr. Leo Marvin | 1991-05-17 |
 |
Prisoner of Honor | Col. Picquart | 1991-11-02 |
 |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | The Player | 1991-02-08 |
 |
Once Around | Sam Sharpe | 1991-01-18 |
 |
Postcards from the Edge | Dr. Frankenthal | 1990-09-14 |
 |
Let It Ride | Jay Trotter | 1989-08-18 |
 |
Always | Pete Sandich | 1989-12-22 |
 |
Moon Over Parador | Jack Noah | 1988-09-09 |
 |
Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | 1987-08-05 |
 |
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self | 1987-03-13 |
 |
Tin Men | Bill 'BB' Babowsky | 1987-03-06 |
 |
Citizen Steve | Jedediah | 1987-01-01 |
 |
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | Self | 1987-10-12 |
 |
Nuts | Aaron Levinsky | 1987-11-20 |
 |
Stand by Me | The Writer | 1986-08-08 |
 |
Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Dave Whiteman | 1986-01-31 |
 |
Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 |
 |
The Buddy System | Joe | 1984-05-04 |
 |
Whose Life Is It Anyway? | Ken Harrison | 1981-12-02 |
 |
The Competition | Paul Dietrich | 1980-12-03 |
 |
The Big Fix | Moses Wine | 1978-10-06 |
 |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Roy Neary | 1977-12-14 |
|
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play | 1977-01-01 | |
 |
The Sentinel | Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited) | 1977-01-07 |
 |
The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield | 1977-11-27 |
|
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' | Self | 1977-01-01 |
 |
Victory at Entebbe | Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu | 1976-12-22 |
 |
Inserts | Boy Wonder | 1975-02-20 |
 |
Jaws | Hooper | 1975-06-20 |
 |
New England Our Way | Self | 1974-12-09 |
 |
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Duddy | 1974-04-11 |
 |
The Second Coming of Suzanne | Clavius | 1974-10-04 |
 |
Dillinger | Baby Face Nelson | 1973-07-20 |
 |
Me | Greg | 1973-11-28 |
 |
American Graffiti | Curt Henderson | 1973-08-11 |
 |
Catch-22 | Yossarian | 1973-05-21 |
 |
The Shadow of a Gunman | Tommy Owen | 1972-12-04 |
 |
Two for the Money | Morris Gap | 1972-02-26 |
 |
Hello Down There | Harold Webster | 1969-06-25 |
 |
The Young Runaways | Terry | 1968-09-11 |
 |
Valley of the Dolls | Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited) | 1967-12-27 |
 |
The Graduate | Boarding House Resident (uncredited) | 1967-12-21 |
 |
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War | Self |
