Richard Dreyfuss
Actor · Director · WriterRichard 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.
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FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR135
Waltzing with Brando
2025
Seymour Kraft
Into the Deep
2025
Seamus
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
Self
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
Self
Sweetwater
2023
Maurice Podoloff
Commitment to Life
2023
Self (archive footage)
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
Narrator (voice)
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
Edgar
Save Christmas
2022
Santa
Every Last One of Them
2021
Murphy
Crime Story
2021
Ben Myers
Audrey
2020
Self - Actor
The Last Laugh
2019
Buddy Green
Polar
2019
Porter
Daughter of the Wolf
2019
Father
Astronaut
2019
Angus
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018
Self
Book Club
2018
George
Bayou Caviar
2018
Yuri
Asher
2018
Avi
Spielberg
2017
Self
Zipper
2015
George Hiller
Squatters
2014
David Silverman
Caserta Palace Dream
2014
Luigi Vanvitelli
Very Good Girls
2013
Danny
Paranoia
2013
Frank Cassidy
Cas & Dylan
2013
Dr. Cas Pepper
Milius
2013
Self
Casting By
2012
Self
The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011
Narrator
Piranha 3D
2010
Matthew Boyd
RED
2010
Alexander Dunning
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010
Self
My Life in Ruins
2009
Irv Gideon
Leaves of Grass
2009
Pug Rothbaum
The Lightkeepers
2009
Seth
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Self
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
Self
W.
2008
Dick Cheney
America Betrayed
2008
Narrator
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
Self
Ocean of Fear
2007
Narrator
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
Self
Spielberg on Spielberg
2007
Self (archive footage)
Poseidon
2006
Richard Nelson
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
Self
The Dish on Dolls
2006
Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
Self - Actor
Silver City
2004
Chuck Raven
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
Narrator
Coast to Coast
2004
Barnaby Pierce
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
Self
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003
Theodore Roosevelt
The Johnstown Flood
2003
narrator
The John Garfield Story
2003
Self
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002
Narrator
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
Micah Donnelly
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
Antonio Bolivar
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
Alexander Haig
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
Scoop the Snowman (voice)
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
Self
In Search of Peace
2001
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Fail Safe
2000
President
The Crew
2000
Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000
Self
Lansky
1999
Meyer Lansky
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
Prof. Krippendorf
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
Self
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998
Narrator
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
Sam Vigoda
Oliver Twist
1997
Fagin
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
Narrator (voice)
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
Self
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997
Self
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997
Self
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
Self
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Centipede (voice)
Mad Dog Time
1996
Vic
The Universal Story
1996
Self
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
Glenn Holland
The American President
1995
Senator Rumson
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
Self
The Last Word
1995
Larry
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
Self
Silent Fall
1994
Dr. Jake Rainer
Another Stakeout
1993
Det. Chris Lecce
Lost in Yonkers
1993
Louie Kurnitz
- Lincoln
Lincoln
1992
William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
What About Bob?
1991
Dr. Leo Marvin
Once Around
1991
Sam Sharpe
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
The Player
Prisoner of Honor
1991
Col. Picquart
Postcards from the Edge
1990
Dr. Frankenthal
Always
1989
Pete Sandich
Let It Ride
1989
Jay Trotter
Moon Over Parador
1988
Jack Noah
Tin Men
1987
Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Stakeout
1987
Det. Chris Lecce
Citizen Steve
1987
Jedediah
Nuts
1987
Aaron Levinsky
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Self
Stand by Me
1986
The Writer
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
Dave Whiteman
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Self
The Buddy System
1984
Joe
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
Ken Harrison
The Competition
1980
Paul Dietrich
The Big Fix
1978
Moses Wine
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
Roy Neary
- The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977
Self
The Goodbye Girl
1977
Elliot Garfield
The Sentinel
1977
Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
- The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
Victory at Entebbe
1976
Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Jaws
1975
Hooper
Inserts
1975
Boy Wonder
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
Duddy
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974
Clavius
New England Our Way
1974
Self
American Graffiti
1973
Curt Henderson
Catch-22
1973
Yossarian
Dillinger
1973
Baby Face Nelson
Me
1973
Greg
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972
Tommy Owen
Two for the Money
1972
Morris Gap
Hello Down There
1969
Harold Webster
The Young Runaways
1968
Terry
The Graduate
1967
Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Valley of the Dolls
1967
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
Killing Winston Jones
Winston Jones
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Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
Executive Producer
Every Last One of Them
2021
Executive Producer
Crime Story
2021
Executive Producer
Astronaut
2019
Executive Producer
Oliver Twist
1997
Co-Producer
Quiz Show
1994
Executive Producer
Once Around
1991
Co-Producer
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
Producer
The Big Fix
1978
Producer
