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