Richard Dreyfuss
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 29, 1947
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
Killing Winston Jones TBA
as Winston Jones
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War TBA
as Self
Waltzing with Brando 2025
as Seymour Kraft
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story 2025
as Self
Into the Deep 2025
as Seamus
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life 2023
as Self
Sweetwater 2023
as Maurice Podoloff
Commitment to Life 2023
as Self (archive footage)
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony 2022
as Narrator (voice)
Save Christmas 2022
as Santa
Murder at Yellowstone City 2022
as Edgar, Executive Producer
Every Last One of Them 2021
as Murphy, Executive Producer
Crime Story 2021
as Ben Myers, Executive Producer
Audrey 2020
as Self - Actor
Astronaut 2019
as Angus, Executive Producer
Daughter of the Wolf 2019
as Father
Polar 2019
as Porter
The Last Laugh 2019
as Buddy Green
Asher 2018
as Avi
Bayou Caviar 2018
as Yuri
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky 2018
as Self
Book Club 2018
as George
Spielberg 2017
as Self
Zipper 2015
as George Hiller
Squatters 2014
as David Silverman
Caserta Palace Dream 2014
as Luigi Vanvitelli
Cas & Dylan 2013
as Dr. Cas Pepper
Paranoia 2013
as Frank Cassidy
Milius 2013
as Self
Very Good Girls 2013
as Danny
Casting By 2012
as Self
The Two Million Year Old Boy 2011
as Narrator
RED 2010
as Alexander Dunning
Piranha 3D 2010
as Matthew Boyd
Jaws: The Inside Story 2010
as Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty 2010
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
The Lightkeepers 2009
as Seth
Leaves of Grass 2009
as Pug Rothbaum
My Life in Ruins 2009
as Irv Gideon
The Shark Is Still Working 2009
as Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale 2009
as Self
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist 2009
as Self
W. 2008
as Dick Cheney
America Betrayed 2008
as Narrator
Ocean of Fear 2007
as Narrator
Spielberg on Spielberg 2007
as Self (archive footage)
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition 2007
as Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo 2007
as Self
The Dish on Dolls 2006
as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters 2006
as Self
Poseidon 2006
as Richard Nelson
The Adventures of Errol Flynn 2005
as Self - Actor
Silver City 2004
as Chuck Raven
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope 2004
as Narrator
Coast to Coast 2004
as Barnaby Pierce
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion 2003
as Theodore Roosevelt
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood 2003
as Self
The John Garfield Story 2003
as Self
The Johnstown Flood 2003
as narrator
Manassas: End of Innocence 2002
as Narrator
The Day Reagan Was Shot 2001
as Alexander Haig
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome 2001
as Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys 2001
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
In Search of Peace 2001
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Who Is Cletis Tout? 2001
as Micah Donnelly
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' 2001
as Self
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories 2001
as Antonio Bolivar
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me 2000
as Self
The Crew 2000
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Fail Safe 2000
as President
Lansky 1999
as Meyer Lansky
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude 1998
as Narrator
The Making of 'American Graffiti' 1998
as Self
Krippendorf's Tribe 1998
as Prof. Krippendorf
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon 1997
as Narrator (voice)
Frank Capra's American Dream 1997
as Self
Oliver Twist 1997
as Fagin, Co-Producer
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady 1997
as Self
Night Falls on Manhattan 1997
as Sam Vigoda
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero 1997
as Self
In the Teeth of Jaws 1997
as Self
Mad Dog Time 1996
as Vic
The Universal Story 1996
as Self
James and the Giant Peach 1996
as Centipede (voice)
Mr. Holland's Opus 1995
as Glenn Holland
The Making of 'Jaws' 1995
as Self
The American President 1995
as Senator Rumson
The Last Word 1995
as Larry
- Present Tense, Past Perfect
Present Tense, Past Perfect 1995
Director
Silent Fall 1994
as Dr. Jake Rainer
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein 1994
as Self
Quiz Show 1994
Executive Producer
Another Stakeout 1993
as Det. Chris Lecce
Lost in Yonkers 1993
as Louie Kurnitz
- Lincoln
Lincoln 1992
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
Prisoner of Honor 1991
as Col. Picquart
What About Bob? 1991
as Dr. Leo Marvin
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 1991
as The Player
Once Around 1991
as Sam Sharpe, Co-Producer
Postcards from the Edge 1990
as Dr. Frankenthal
Always 1989
as Pete Sandich
Let It Ride 1989
as Jay Trotter
Moon Over Parador 1988
as Jack Noah
Nuts 1987
as Aaron Levinsky
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville 1987
as Self, Writer, Producer
Stakeout 1987
as Det. Chris Lecce
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life 1987
as Self
Tin Men 1987
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Citizen Steve 1987
as Jedediah
Stand by Me 1986
as The Writer
Down and Out in Beverly Hills 1986
as Dave Whiteman
- An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. 1986
Actor
Night of 100 Stars II 1985
as Self
The Buddy System 1984
as Joe
Whose Life Is It Anyway? 1981
as Ken Harrison
The Competition 1980
as Paul Dietrich
The Big Fix 1978
as Moses Wine, Producer
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
as Roy Neary
The Goodbye Girl 1977
as Elliot Garfield
The Sentinel 1977
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
- The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play 1977
Actor
- The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' 1977
as Self
Victory at Entebbe 1976
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Jaws 1975
as Hooper
Inserts 1975
as Boy Wonder
New England Our Way 1974
as Self
The Second Coming of Suzanne 1974
as Clavius
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1974
as Duddy
Me 1973
as Greg
American Graffiti 1973
as Curt Henderson
Dillinger 1973
as Baby Face Nelson
Catch-22 1973
as Yossarian
The Shadow of a Gunman 1972
as Tommy Owen
Two for the Money 1972
as Morris Gap
Hello Down There 1969
as Harold Webster
The Young Runaways 1968
as Terry
Valley of the Dolls 1967
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
The Graduate 1967
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Credits from TMDB.