1947-10-29 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
An American actor best known for starring in a number of 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. Dreyfuss 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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Sweetwater | Maurice Podoloff | 2023-04-14 |
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Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life | Self | 2023-04-16 |
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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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Save Christmas | Santa | 2022-12-01 |
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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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Audrey | Self - Actor | 2020-11-30 |
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The Last Laugh | Buddy Green | 2019-01-11 |
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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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Polar | Porter | 2019-01-25 |
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Asher | Avi | 2018-12-07 |
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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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Third Party President: Citizen Rocky | Self | 2016-09-19 |
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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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And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
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Squatters | David Silverman | 2014-05-14 |
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Milius | Self | 2013-03-09 |
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Paranoia | Frank Cassidy | 2013-08-14 |
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Very Good Girls | Danny | 2013-01-22 |
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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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Jaws: The Inside Story | Self | 2010-06-16 |
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RED | Alexander Dunning | 2010-10-13 |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty | David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage) | 2009-09-05 |
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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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My Life in Ruins | Irv Gideon | 2009-06-05 |
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Leaves of Grass | Pug Rothbaum | 2009-09-13 |
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The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws" | Self | 2009-05-02 |
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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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Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Self | 2006-06-13 |
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Poseidon | Richard Nelson | 2006-05-10 |
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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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A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope | Narrator | 2004-09-14 |
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Coast to Coast | Barnaby Pierce | 2004-04-03 |
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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, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self | 2003-03-09 |
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The John Garfield Story | Self | 2003-02-03 |
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The Johnstown Flood | narrator | 2003-01-01 |
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Manassas: End of Innocence | Narrator | 2002-02-19 |
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys | Scoop the Snowman (voice) | 2001-10-14 |
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The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' | Self | 2001-05-08 |
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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 | 2001-03-07 | |
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The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig | 2001-12-09 |
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Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me | Self | 2000-08-29 |
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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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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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Night Falls on Manhattan | Sam Vigoda | 1997-03-21 |
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Oliver Twist | Fagin | 1997-05-15 |
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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 | 1997-01-01 |
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The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon | Narrator (voice) | 1997-06-22 |
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The Universal Story | Self | 1996-04-21 |
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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 American President | Senator Rumson | 1995-11-17 |
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The Making of 'Jaws' | Self | 1995-11-28 |
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The Last Word | Larry | 1995-08-27 |
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Mr. Holland's Opus | Glenn Holland | 1995-12-29 |
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It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | Self | 1994-10-25 |
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Silent Fall | Dr. Jake Rainer | 1994-10-28 |
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Another Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | 1993-07-22 |
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Lost in Yonkers | Louie Kurnitz | 1993-05-14 |
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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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Prisoner of Honor | Col. Picquart | 1991-11-02 |
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Once Around | Sam Sharpe | 1991-01-18 |
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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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Liberian Girl | Richard Dreyfuss | 1989-07-03 |
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self | 1988-11-22 |
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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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Citizen Steve | Jedediah | 1987-01-01 |
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Tin Men | Bill 'BB' Babowsky | 1987-03-06 |
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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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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 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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Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Roy Neary | 1977-12-14 |
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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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Victory at Entebbe | Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu | 1976-12-13 |
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Jaws | Hooper | 1975-06-20 |
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Inserts | Boy Wonder | 1975-02-20 |
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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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Dillinger | Baby Face Nelson | 1973-07-20 |
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Me | Greg | 1973-11-28 |
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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 | 1969-01-01 |
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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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I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War | Self | |
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Waltzing With Brando | Seymour Kraft |
