Richard Dreyfuss
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1947-10-29 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Richard Dreyfuss
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. Dreyfuss 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.
Acting
(2025)
Into the Deep
as Seamus
(2024)
Waltzing with Brando
as Seymour Kraft
(2023)
Sweetwater
as Maurice Podoloff
(2023)
(2022)
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar
(2022)
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
as Narrator (voice)
(2022)
Save Christmas
as Santa
(2021)
Every Last One of Them
as Murphy
(2021)
Crime Story
as Ben Myers
(2020)
Audrey
as Self - Actor
(2019)
Polar
as Porter
(2019)
Daughter of the Wolf
as Father
(2019)
The Last Laugh
as Buddy Green
(2019)
Astronaut
as Angus
(2018)
Book Club
as George
(2018)
Asher
as Avi
(2018)
Bayou Caviar
as Yuri
(2018)
(2017)
Spielberg
as Self
(2015)
Zipper
as George Hiller
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(2014)
Squatters
as David Silverman
(2014)
Caserta Palace Dream
as Luigi Vanvitelli
(2013)
Paranoia
as Frank Cassidy
(2013)
Very Good Girls
as Danny
(2013)
Milius
as Self
(2013)
Cas & Dylan
as Dr. Cas Pepper
(2012)
Casting By
as Self
(2011)
The Two Million Year Old Boy
as Narrator
(2010)
RED
as Alexander Dunning
(2010)
Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd
(2010)
Jaws: The Inside Story
as Self
(2009)
My Life in Ruins
as Irv Gideon
(2009)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
(2009)
Leaves of Grass
as Pug Rothbaum
(2009)
The Lightkeepers
as Seth
(2009)
(2009)
(2008)
W.
as Dick Cheney
(2008)
America Betrayed
as Narrator
(2007)
(2007)
(2007)
Ocean of Fear
as Narrator
(2006)
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
(2006)
(2005)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self - Actor
(2004)
Silver City
as Chuck Raven
(2004)
Coast to Coast
as Barnaby Pierce
(2004)
(2003)
(2003)
The Johnstown Flood
as narrator
(2003)
The John Garfield Story
as Self
(2003)
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
as Theodore Roosevelt
(2002)
Manassas: End of Innocence
as Narrator
(2001)
Who Is Cletis Tout?
as Micah Donnelly
(2001)
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
as Self
(2001)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
(2001)
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Alexander Haig
(2001)
(2001)
(2001)
In Search of Peace
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
(2000)
Fail Safe
as President
(2000)
The Crew
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
(2000)
(1999)
Lansky
as Meyer Lansky
(1998)
Krippendorf's Tribe
as Prof. Krippendorf
(1998)
(1998)
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
as Narrator
(1997)
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Sam Vigoda
(1997)
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
as Narrator (voice)
(1997)
In the Teeth of Jaws
as Self
(1997)
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
(1997)
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self
(1997)
(1997)
(1996)
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)
(1996)
Mad Dog Time
as Vic
(1996)
The Universal Story
as Self
(1995)
The American President
as Senator Rumson
(1995)
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Glenn Holland
(1995)
The Last Word
as Larry
(1995)
The Making of 'Jaws'
as Self
(1994)
Silent Fall
as Dr. Jake Rainer
(1994)
(1993)
Another Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
(1993)
Lost in Yonkers
as Louie Kurnitz
(1992)
Lincoln
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
(1991)
What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin
(1991)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as The Player
(1991)
Once Around
as Sam Sharpe
(1991)
Prisoner of Honor
as Col. Picquart
(1990)
Postcards from the Edge
as Dr. Frankenthal
(1989)
Always
as Pete Sandich
(1989)
Let It Ride
as Jay Trotter
(1988)
Moon Over Parador
as Jack Noah
(1988)
(1987)
Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
(1987)
Tin Men
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
(1987)
Nuts
as Aaron Levinsky
(1987)
(1987)
Citizen Steve
as Jedediah
(1986)
Stand by Me
as The Writer
(1986)
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
as Dave Whiteman
(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)
The Big Fix
as Moses Wine
(1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
(1977)
The Sentinel
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
(1977)
The Goodbye Girl
as Elliot Garfield
(1977)
(1977)
(1976)
Victory at Entebbe
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
(1975)
Jaws
as Hooper
(1975)
Inserts
as Boy Wonder
(1974)
New England Our Way
as Self
(1974)
(1974)
The Second Coming of Suzanne
as Clavius
(1973)
American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson
(1973)
Dillinger
as Baby Face Nelson
(1973)
Catch-22
as Yossarian
(1973)
Me
as Greg
(1972)
Two for the Money
as Morris Gap
(1972)
The Shadow of a Gunman
as Tommy Owen
(1969)
Hello Down There
as Harold Webster
(1968)
The Young Runaways
as Terry
(1967)
The Graduate
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
(1967)
Valley of the Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Crew
(2022)
Murder at Yellowstone City
Executive Producer
(2021)
Every Last One of Them
Executive Producer
(2021)
Crime Story
Executive Producer
(2019)
Astronaut
Executive Producer
(1997)
Oliver Twist
Co-Producer
(1995)
Present Tense, Past Perfect
Director
(1994)
Quiz Show
Executive Producer
(1991)
Once Around
Co-Producer
(1987)
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Writer, Producer
(1978)
The Big Fix
Producer