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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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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Into the Deep | Seamus | 2025-01-23 |
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Sweetwater | Maurice Podoloff | 2023-04-14 |
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Commitment to Life | Self (archive footage) | 2023-02-10 |
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Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life | Self | 2023-04-16 |
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Save Christmas | Santa | 2022-12-01 |
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Murder at Yellowstone City | Edgar | 2022-06-24 |
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Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony | Narrator (voice) | 2022-12-05 |
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Crime Story | Ben Myers | 2021-08-13 |
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Every Last One of Them | Murphy | 2021-10-22 |
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Juguete de la película Tiburón | Matt Hooper (voice) | 2020-07-26 |
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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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Polar | Porter | 2019-01-25 |
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Astronaut | Angus | 2019-07-26 |
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Daughter of the Wolf | Father | 2019-06-14 |
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Third Party President: Citizen Rocky | Self | 2018-06-18 |
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Book Club | George | 2018-05-18 |
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Bayou Caviar | Yuri | 2018-10-05 |
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Asher | Avi | 2018-12-07 |
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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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Paranoia | Frank Cassidy | 2013-08-14 |
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Cas & Dylan | Dr. Cas Pepper | 2013-09-17 |
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Milius | Self | 2013-03-09 |
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Very Good Girls | Danny | 2013-01-22 |
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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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Jaws: The Inside Story | Self | 2010-06-16 |
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RED | Alexander Dunning | 2010-10-13 |
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Piranha 3D | Matthew Boyd | 2010-08-20 |
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The Lightkeepers | Seth | 2009-12-18 |
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I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self | 2009-01-16 |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty | David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage) | 2009-09-05 |
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The Shark Is Still Working | Self | 2009-05-02 |
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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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American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist | Self | 2009-01-01 |
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America Betrayed | Narrator | 2008-01-01 |
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W. | Dick Cheney | 2008-10-17 |
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Ocean of Fear | Narrator | 2007-07-29 |
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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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AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition | Self | 2007-06-20 |
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Spielberg on Spielberg | Self (archive footage) | 2007-07-09 |
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Poseidon | Richard Nelson | 2006-05-03 |
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The Dish on Dolls | Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage) | 2006-06-13 |
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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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The John Garfield Story | Self | 2003-02-03 |
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Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion | Theodore Roosevelt | 2003-05-27 |
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The Johnstown Flood | narrator | 2003-01-01 |
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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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Manassas: End of Innocence | Narrator | 2002-02-19 |
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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' | Self | 2001-05-08 |
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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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Who Is Cletis Tout? | Micah Donnelly | 2001-09-12 |
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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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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | Antonio Bolivar | 2001-03-07 |
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The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig | 2001-12-09 |
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Fail Safe | President | 2000-04-09 |
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The Crew | Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator | 2000-08-21 |
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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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Krippendorf's Tribe | Prof. Krippendorf | 1998-02-27 |
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Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude | Narrator | 1998-10-06 |
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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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In the Teeth of Jaws | Self | 1997-01-01 |
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Frank Capra's American Dream | Self | 1997-05-18 |
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The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon | Narrator (voice) | 1997-06-22 |
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Oliver Twist | Fagin | 1997-05-15 |
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Night Falls on Manhattan | Sam Vigoda | 1997-03-21 |
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Mad Dog Time | Vic | 1996-11-08 |
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James and the Giant Peach | Centipede (voice) | 1996-04-12 |
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The Universal Story | Self | 1996-04-21 |
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The Making of 'Jaws' | Self | 1995-11-28 |
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Mr. Holland's Opus | Glenn Holland | 1995-12-29 |
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The American President | Senator Rumson | 1995-11-17 |
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The Last Word | Larry | 1995-08-27 |
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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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Once Around | Sam Sharpe | 1991-01-18 |
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Prisoner of Honor | Col. Picquart | 1991-11-02 |
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What About Bob? | Dr. Leo Marvin | 1991-05-17 |
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | The Player | 1991-02-08 |
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Postcards from the Edge | Dr. Frankenthal | 1990-09-14 |
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Always | Pete Sandich | 1989-12-22 |
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Let It Ride | Jay Trotter | 1989-08-18 |
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Moon Over Parador | Jack Noah | 1988-09-09 |
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self | 1987-03-13 |
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Citizen Steve | Jedediah | 1987-01-01 |
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Nuts | Aaron Levinsky | 1987-11-20 |
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Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | 1987-08-05 |
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Tin Men | Bill 'BB' Babowsky | 1987-03-06 |
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Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | Self | 1987-10-12 |
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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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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 Sentinel | Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited) | 1977-01-07 |
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The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield | 1977-11-27 |
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The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play | 1977-01-01 | |
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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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American Graffiti | Curt Henderson | 1973-08-11 |
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Catch-22 | Yossarian | 1973-05-21 |
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Me | Greg | 1973-11-28 |
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Dillinger | Baby Face Nelson | 1973-07-20 |
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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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Valley of the Dolls | Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited) | 1967-12-27 |
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The Graduate | Boarding House Resident (uncredited) | 1967-12-21 |
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I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War | Self | |
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Killing Winston Jones | Winston Jones |
