Richard Dreyfuss
Known for Acting · 188 credits
- Born
- 1947-10-29 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Richard Stephen Dreyfuss
Biography
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.
Known For
TV Shows (52)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Family Guy
1999
as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) / Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
The View
1997
as Self
Bewitched
1964
Weeds
2005
as Warren Schiff
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Parenthood
2010
as Gilliam T. Blount
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Ben Casey
1961
The Big Valley
1965
as Lud
The Reichen Show
2005
as Self
Bubble Guppies
2011
as Captain Acrab
Gunsmoke
1955
as Gearshon Gorofsky
Stars in the House
2020
as Self
Room 222
1969
That Girl
1966
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
as Self
The Mod Squad
1968
Felony Squad
1966
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Where Are They Now?
1999
as Self
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
as Self
Gidget
1965
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971
as Tony Injijikian
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
Occasional Wife
1966
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
as Self
Shots Fired
2017
as Arlen Cox
HARDtalk
1997
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
as Max Bickford
Coma
2012
as Professor Hillside
Tin Man
2007
as Mystic Man
The Second Hundred Years
1967
as Ben Jr.
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
as Narrator (voice)
Hey Landlord!
1966
Madoff
2016
as Bernie Madoff
Treffpunkte
1970
as Self
The Entertainment Biz
1998
as Self
The New People
1969
Your Family or Mine
2015
as Louis
Karen
1964
as David Rowe III
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
A Touch of Grace
1973
American Chronicles
1990
as narrator
Happiness Isn't Everything
as Jerry Hamburger
Ocean of Fear
as Narrator (voice)
Movies (136)
Jaws
1975
as Hooper
Stand by Me
1986
as The Writer
RED
2010
as Alexander Dunning
The Goodbye Girl
1977
as Elliot Garfield
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
as Roy Neary
Polar
2019
as Porter
The Graduate
1967
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Piranha 3D
2010
as Matthew Boyd
Poseidon
2006
as Richard Nelson
American Graffiti
1973
as Curt Henderson
James and the Giant Peach
1996
as Centipede (voice)
The American President
1995
as Senator Rumson
Book Club
2018
as George
W.
2008
as Dick Cheney
Always
1989
as Pete Sandich
Into the Deep
2025
as Seamus
Paranoia
2013
as Frank Cassidy
Spielberg
2017
as Self
Postcards from the Edge
1990
as Dr. Frankenthal
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
as Glenn Holland
Another Stakeout
1993
as Det. Chris Lecce
What About Bob?
1991
as Dr. Leo Marvin
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
Silent Fall
1994
as Dr. Jake Rainer
Zipper
2015
as George Hiller
Tin Men
1987
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
My Life in Ruins
2009
as Irv Gideon
The Crew
2000
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
The Sentinel
1977
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
as Edgar
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
as Self
Daughter of the Wolf
2019
as Father
Stakeout
1987
as Det. Chris Lecce
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
Valley of the Dolls
1967
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Mad Dog Time
1996
as Vic
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
as Sam Vigoda
Very Good Girls
2013
as Danny
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
as Dave Whiteman
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
as The Player
Sweetwater
2023
as Maurice Podoloff
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
as Self
Audrey
2020
as Self - Actor
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self
Leaves of Grass
2009
as Pug Rothbaum
Crime Story
2021
as Ben Myers
Nuts
1987
as Aaron Levinsky
Asher
2018
as Avi
Dillinger
1973
as Baby Face Nelson
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
Silver City
2004
as Chuck Raven
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
as Self
Save Christmas
2022
as Santa
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
The Universal Story
1996
as Self
Fail Safe
2000
as President
Lansky
1999
as Meyer Lansky
Let It Ride
1989
as Jay Trotter
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
as Self
Once Around
1991
as Sam Sharpe
Casting By
2012
as Self
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
as Self
The Last Laugh
2019
as Buddy Green
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
as Self
The Big Fix
1978
as Moses Wine
Moon Over Parador
1988
as Jack Noah
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
as Self
Milius
2013
as Self
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
as Prof. Krippendorf
Cas & Dylan
2013
as Dr. Cas Pepper
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
as Narrator
The Lightkeepers
2009
as Seth
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Self - Actor
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972
as Tommy Owen
Hello Down There
1969
as Harold Webster
The Competition
1980
as Paul Dietrich
Squatters
2014
as David Silverman
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
as Micah Donnelly
Every Last One of Them
2021
as Murphy
Coast to Coast
2004
as Barnaby Pierce
Bayou Caviar
2018
as Yuri
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
as Self
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
as Narrator (voice)
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
as Self
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
as Ken Harrison
Oliver Twist
1997
as Fagin
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
as Self
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
as Self
Astronaut
2019
as Angus
Victory at Entebbe
1976
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Me
1973
as Greg
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
as Self
Citizen Steve
1987
as Jedediah
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
as Duddy
Lost in Yonkers
1993
as Louie Kurnitz
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000
as Self
Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Inserts
1975
as Boy Wonder
The Buddy System
1984
as Joe
Waltzing with Brando
2025
as Seymour Kraft
Two for the Money
1972
as Morris Gap
Lincoln
1992
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
as Antonio Bolivar
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
as Alexander Haig
In Search of Peace
2001
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
as Self
The John Garfield Story
2003
as Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
as Self
Prisoner of Honor
1991
as Col. Picquart
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
as Self
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018
as Self
The Last Word
1995
as Larry
Catch-22
1973
as Yossarian
The Young Runaways
1968
as Terry
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974
as Clavius
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010
as Self
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
as Narrator (voice)
New England Our Way
1974
as Self
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998
as Narrator
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002
as Narrator
About Richard Dreyfuss
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 Perf… With 188 credits spanning from 1953 to 2025, Richard Dreyfuss has appeared in 136 films and 52 TV shows.
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Most Popular Richard Dreyfuss Movies
- Jaws (1975) — as Hooper
- Stand by Me (1986) — as The Writer
- RED (2010) — as Alexander Dunning
- The Goodbye Girl (1977) — as Elliot Garfield
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) — as Roy Neary
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