Richard Dreyfuss
Acting1947Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
Acting History
Future
Killing Winston Jones
as Winston Jones
Ocean of Fear
TVas Narrator (voice)
Happiness Isn't Everything
TVas Jerry Hamburger
2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
Waltzing with Brando
as Seymour Kraft
Into the Deep
as Seamus
2023
Sweetwater
as Maurice Podoloff
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
TVas Self• 1 eps
2022
Save Christmas
as Santa
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
as Narrator (voice)
Bubble Guppies
TVas Captain Acrab• 1 eps
Murder at Yellowstone City
Executive Producer
2021
Crime Story
as Ben Myers
Every Last One of Them
as Murphy
Every Last One of Them
Executive Producer
Crime Story
Executive Producer
2020
Audrey
as Self - Actor
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
TVas Self - Guest• 1 eps
Stars in the House
TVas Self• 1 eps
2019
Polar
as Porter
Daughter of the Wolf
as Father
The Last Laugh
as Buddy Green
Astronaut
as Angus
Astronaut
Executive Producer
2018
2017
Spielberg
as Self
Shots Fired
TVas Arlen Cox
2016
Madoff
TVas Bernie Madoff
2015
Zipper
as George Hiller
Your Family or Mine
TVas Louis
2014
Squatters
as David Silverman
Caserta Palace Dream
as Luigi Vanvitelli
The Real History of Science Fiction
TVas Self
2013
2012
Casting By
as Self
Coma
TVas Professor Hillside
2011
The Two Million Year Old Boy
as Narrator
Parenthood
TVas Gilliam T. Blount• 4 eps
2010
RED
as Alexander Dunning
Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd
Jaws: The Inside Story
as Self
Family Guy
TVas Richard Dreyfuss (voice) / Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)• 1 eps
Weeds
TVas Warren Schiff• 4 eps
2009
Leaves of Grass
as Pug Rothbaum
My Life in Ruins
as Irv Gideon
The Lightkeepers
as Seth
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
The Shark Is Still Working
as Self
2008
W.
as Dick Cheney
America Betrayed
as Narrator
2007
Ocean of Fear
as Narrator
Tin Man
TVas Mystic Man
2006
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
The Dish on Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
The Reichen Show
TVas Self• 1 eps
2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self - Actor
2004
2003
TR: An American Lion
as Theodore Roosevelt
The John Garfield Story
as Self
The Johnstown Flood
as narrator
2002
Manassas: End of Innocence
as Narrator
Where Are They Now?
TVas Self• 1 eps
2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
Who Is Cletis Tout?
as Micah Donnelly
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
as Self
In Search of Peace
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
as Antonio Bolivar
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Alexander Haig
The Education of Max Bickford
TVas Max Bickford
1999
Lansky
as Meyer Lansky
1998
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
as Narrator
Krippendorf's Tribe
as Prof. Krippendorf
The Entertainment Biz
TVas Self
1997
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Sam Vigoda
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
as Narrator (voice)
In the Teeth of Jaws
as Self
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self
The View
TVas Self
Oliver Twist
Co-Producer
1996
The Universal Story
as Self
Mad Dog Time
as Vic
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TVas Self - Guest
The Daily Show
TVas Self
1995
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Glenn Holland
The Last Word
as Larry
The American President
as Senator Rumson
The Making of 'Jaws'
as Self
Present Tense, Past Perfect
Director
1994
1993
Another Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
Lost in Yonkers
as Louie Kurnitz
1992
Lincoln
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
Tony Awards
TVas Self - Presenter• 1 eps
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
TVas Narrator (voice)
1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as The Player
Once Around
as Sam Sharpe
What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin
Prisoner of Honor
as Col. Picquart
Once Around
Co-Producer
1990
Postcards from the Edge
as Dr. Frankenthal
1989
Always
as Pete Sandich
Let It Ride
as Jay Trotter
1988
Moon Over Parador
as Jack Noah
1987
Tin Men
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
Nuts
as Aaron Levinsky
Citizen Steve
as Jedediah
Great Performances
TVas Self• 1 eps
1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
as Dave Whiteman
Stand by Me
as The Writer
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1984
The Buddy System
as Joe
1981
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
as Ken Harrison
1980
The Competition
as Paul Dietrich
1978
1977
The Sentinel
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
The Goodbye Girl
as Elliot Garfield
1976
Victory at Entebbe
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
1975
1974
New England Our Way
as Self
The Second Coming of Suzanne
as Clavius
1973
American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson
Me
as Greg
Catch-22
as Yossarian
Dillinger
as Baby Face Nelson
Gunsmoke
TVas Gearshon Gorofsky• 1 eps
1972
Two for the Money
as Morris Gap
The Shadow of a Gunman
as Tommy Owen
1970
1969
Hello Down There
as Harold Webster
1967
Valley of the Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
The Graduate
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
The Big Valley
TVas Lud• 1 eps
The Second Hundred Years
TVas Ben Jr.
1965
1964
Karen
TVas David Rowe III• 27 eps
1962
1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TVas Self