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