Richard Dreyfuss
Known for Acting · 188 credits
- Born
- 1947-10-29 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Richard Stephen 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. 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
TV Shows (52)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Family Guy
1999
as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) / Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Saturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
The View
1997
as Self
Bewitched
1964
Weeds
2005
as Warren Schiff
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Parenthood
2010
as Gilliam T. Blount
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Ben Casey
1961
The Big Valley
1965
as Lud
Gunsmoke
1955
as Gearshon Gorofsky
Bubble Guppies
2011
as Captain Acrab
That Girl
1966
The Reichen Show
2005
as Self
Stars in the House
2020
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Room 222
1969
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
as Self
Felony Squad
1966
The Mod Squad
1968
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Where Are They Now?
1999
as Self
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
as Self
Gidget
1965
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971
as Tony Injijikian
Occasional Wife
1966
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
as Self
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
as Max Bickford
HARDtalk
1997
Shots Fired
2017
as Arlen Cox
Tin Man
2007
as Mystic Man
The Second Hundred Years
1967
as Ben Jr.
Coma
2012
as Professor Hillside
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
as Narrator (voice)
Hey Landlord!
1966
Madoff
2016
as Bernie Madoff
The Entertainment Biz
1998
as Self
Treffpunkte
1970
as Self
The New People
1969
Your Family or Mine
2015
as Louis
Karen
1964
as David Rowe III
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Happiness Isn't Everything
as Jerry Hamburger
A Touch of Grace
1973
American Chronicles
1990
as narrator
Ocean of Fear
as Narrator (voice)
Movies (136)
Jaws
1975
as Hooper
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
as Roy Neary
The Goodbye Girl
1977
as Elliot Garfield
Stand by Me
1986
as The Writer
The Graduate
1967
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Polar
2019
as Porter
RED
2010
as Alexander Dunning
Piranha 3D
2010
as Matthew Boyd
Poseidon
2006
as Richard Nelson
American Graffiti
1973
as Curt Henderson
James and the Giant Peach
1996
as Centipede (voice)
Book Club
2018
as George
Always
1989
as Pete Sandich
The American President
1995
as Senator Rumson
Paranoia
2013
as Frank Cassidy
Into the Deep
2025
as Seamus
What About Bob?
1991
as Dr. Leo Marvin
Another Stakeout
1993
as Det. Chris Lecce
Spielberg
2017
as Self
The Crew
2000
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Silent Fall
1994
as Dr. Jake Rainer
Asher
2018
as Avi
Dillinger
1973
as Baby Face Nelson
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
as Self
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
as Glenn Holland
W.
2008
as Dick Cheney
Zipper
2015
as George Hiller
Audrey
2020
as Self - Actor
My Life in Ruins
2009
as Irv Gideon
The Sentinel
1977
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
Postcards from the Edge
1990
as Dr. Frankenthal
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
as Edgar
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
as The Player
Crime Story
2021
as Ben Myers
Leaves of Grass
2009
as Pug Rothbaum
Daughter of the Wolf
2019
as Father
Lansky
1999
as Meyer Lansky
Nuts
1987
as Aaron Levinsky
Sweetwater
2023
as Maurice Podoloff
Stakeout
1987
as Det. Chris Lecce
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
as Dave Whiteman
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
Tin Men
1987
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Very Good Girls
2013
as Danny
Bayou Caviar
2018
as Yuri
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
as Sam Vigoda
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
as Self
Once Around
1991
as Sam Sharpe
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
Valley of the Dolls
1967
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Casting By
2012
as Self
Mad Dog Time
1996
as Vic
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self
Let It Ride
1989
as Jay Trotter
Every Last One of Them
2021
as Murphy
Fail Safe
2000
as President
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
as Self
Hello Down There
1969
as Harold Webster
Oliver Twist
1997
as Fagin
Silver City
2004
as Chuck Raven
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
as Narrator (voice)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Self - Actor
The Lightkeepers
2009
as Seth
The Big Fix
1978
as Moses Wine
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
as Self
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
as Ken Harrison
The Universal Story
1996
as Self
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
as Self
Moon Over Parador
1988
as Jack Noah
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
New England Our Way
1974
as Self
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
as Micah Donnelly
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
as Prof. Krippendorf
Citizen Steve
1987
as Jedediah
The Last Laugh
2019
as Buddy Green
Victory at Entebbe
1976
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Astronaut
2019
as Angus
Save Christmas
2022
as Santa
Cas & Dylan
2013
as Dr. Cas Pepper
Inserts
1975
as Boy Wonder
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
as Narrator
Milius
2013
as Self
The Competition
1980
as Paul Dietrich
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
as Self
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
as Alexander Haig
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
as Self
Squatters
2014
as David Silverman
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972
as Tommy Owen
Lincoln
1992
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
as Self
Waltzing with Brando
2025
as Seymour Kraft
Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
as Self
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
as Self
The Last Word
1995
as Larry
Lost in Yonkers
1993
as Louie Kurnitz
In Search of Peace
2001
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Two for the Money
1972
as Morris Gap
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
as Self
The John Garfield Story
2003
as Self
The Buddy System
1984
as Joe
Prisoner of Honor
1991
as Col. Picquart
Me
1973
as Greg
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
as Self
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
as Self
Coast to Coast
2004
as Barnaby Pierce
The Young Runaways
1968
as Terry
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
as Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
as Self
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
as Antonio Bolivar
Caserta Palace Dream
2014
as Luigi Vanvitelli
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000
as Self
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002
as Narrator
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
as Narrator (voice)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
as Duddy
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010
as Self
Spielberg on Spielberg
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018
as Self
Catch-22
1973
as Yossarian
About Richard Dreyfuss
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 Perf… With 188 credits spanning from 1953 to 2025, Richard Dreyfuss has appeared in 136 films and 52 TV shows.
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Most Popular Richard Dreyfuss Movies
- Jaws (1975) — as Hooper
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) — as Roy Neary
- The Goodbye Girl (1977) — as Elliot Garfield
- Stand by Me (1986) — as The Writer
- The Graduate (1967) — as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
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