Richard Dreyfuss
Acting
Born: October 29, 1947 (age 78) · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Highest Rated
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
Jaws
1975
RED
2010
Stand by Me
1986
Family Guy
1999
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
The Graduate
1967
Polar
2019
Piranha 3D
2010
Poseidon
2006
American Graffiti
1973
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Weeds
2005
Photos (12)
Movies (96)
Jaws
Hooper
Stand by Me
The Writer
RED
Alexander Dunning
The Graduate
Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary
Polar
Porter
Piranha 3D
Matthew Boyd
Poseidon
Richard Nelson
James and the Giant Peach
Centipede (voice)
The American President
Senator Rumson
American Graffiti
Curt Henderson
Book Club
George
What About Bob?
Dr. Leo Marvin
Daughter of the Wolf
Father
Paranoia
Frank Cassidy
Murder at Yellowstone City
Edgar
Another Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
Postcards from the Edge
Dr. Frankenthal
The Goodbye Girl
Elliot Garfield
Always
Pete Sandich
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Dave Whiteman
The Crew
Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Night Falls on Manhattan
Sam Vigoda
The Sentinel
Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
W.
Dick Cheney
Into the Deep
Seamus
Mr. Holland's Opus
Glenn Holland
Zipper
George Hiller
Sweetwater
Maurice Podoloff
Waking Sleeping Beauty
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
Tin Men
Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Dillinger
Baby Face Nelson
Asher
Avi
Leaves of Grass
Pug Rothbaum
Lansky
Meyer Lansky
Very Good Girls
Danny
Valley of the Dolls
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Narrator (voice)
Crime Story
Ben Myers
Fail Safe
President
My Life in Ruins
Irv Gideon
Mad Dog Time
Vic
Who Is Cletis Tout?
Micah Donnelly
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Player
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Narrator (voice)
Victory at Entebbe
Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Inserts
Boy Wonder
Let It Ride
Jay Trotter
Every Last One of Them
Murphy
Citizen Steve
Jedediah
Once Around
Sam Sharpe
The Last Laugh
Buddy Green
Krippendorf's Tribe
Prof. Krippendorf
Silent Fall
Dr. Jake Rainer
Moon Over Parador
Jack Noah
Bayou Caviar
Yuri
Nuts
Aaron Levinsky
Hello Down There
Harold Webster
The Buddy System
Joe
Astronaut
Angus
Waltzing with Brando
Seymour Kraft
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Scoop the Snowman (voice)
The Big Fix
Moses Wine
Silver City
Chuck Raven
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Ken Harrison
Squatters
David Silverman
Catch-22
Yossarian
Coast to Coast
Barnaby Pierce
Oliver Twist
Fagin
The Lightkeepers
Seth
Prisoner of Honor
Col. Picquart
Lost in Yonkers
Louie Kurnitz
Manassas: End of Innocence
Narrator
The Last Word
Larry
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Duddy
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Alexander Haig
Two for the Money
Morris Gap
Cas & Dylan
Dr. Cas Pepper
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Narrator
Me
Greg
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Antonio Bolivar
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Theodore Roosevelt
The Young Runaways
Terry
Save Christmas
Santa
Caserta Palace Dream
Luigi Vanvitelli
Ocean of Fear
Narrator
The Competition
Paul Dietrich
In Search of Peace
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
The Dish on Dolls
Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
The Johnstown Flood
narrator
The Two Million Year Old Boy
Narrator
The Shadow of a Gunman
Tommy Owen
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Clavius
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Narrator
America Betrayed
Narrator
TV Shows (34)
Family Guy
Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Family Guy
Richard Dreyfuss (voice) · 1 eps
Bewitched
1 eps
Weeds
Warren Schiff · 4 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 eps
Parenthood
Gilliam T. Blount · 4 eps
The Big Valley
Lud · 1 eps
Room 222
1 eps
Gunsmoke
Gearshon Gorofsky · 1 eps
Ben Casey
1 eps
Bubble Guppies
Captain Acrab · 1 eps
That Girl
1 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
1 eps
TFI Friday
1 eps
Judd, for the Defense
1 eps
HARDtalk
1 eps
Felony Squad
1 eps
The Mod Squad
2 eps
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
Tony Injijikian · 1 eps
Gidget
1 eps
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Tin Man
Mystic Man · 3 eps
Hey Landlord!
1 eps
Occasional Wife
1 eps
The Education of Max Bickford
Max Bickford · 22 eps
Shots Fired
Arlen Cox · 10 eps
Coma
Professor Hillside · 2 eps
Madoff
Bernie Madoff · 4 eps
The Second Hundred Years
Ben Jr. · 1 eps
Karen
David Rowe III · 27 eps
Your Family or Mine
Louis · 10 eps
The New People
1 eps
A Touch of Grace
1 eps
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Voice of Theodore Roosevelt · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (48)
The Daily Show
Self · 1 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · 1 eps
The View
Self · 2 eps
Great Performances
Self · 1 eps
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 3 eps
Stars in the House
Self · 1 eps
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Frank Skinner Show
Self · 1 eps
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Real History of Science Fiction
Self · 2 eps
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self
Spielberg
Self
Audrey
Self - Actor
Commitment to Life
Self (archive footage)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
The Shark Is Still Working
Self
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Self
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
Milius
Self
The John Garfield Story
Self
Casting By
Self
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
The Universal Story
Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
In the Teeth of Jaws
Self
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self - Actor
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Self
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Self
The Making of 'Jaws'
Self
New England Our Way
Self
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Self
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Self
Spielberg on Spielberg
Self (archive footage)
Jaws: The Inside Story
Self
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Self
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Self
Upcoming (3)
Writing (1)
Producing (9)
Quiz Show
Executive Producer
Murder at Yellowstone City
Executive Producer
Crime Story
Executive Producer
Every Last One of Them
Executive Producer
Once Around
Co-Producer
Astronaut
Executive Producer
The Big Fix
Producer
Oliver Twist
Co-Producer
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Producer