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