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.
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.
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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181799
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Filmography (Movies)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Character:Self - (archive footage)
Release Date:21/11/2025
Waltzing with Brando
Character:Seymour Kraft
Release Date:19/09/2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Character:Self
Release Date:20/06/2025
Into the Deep
Character:Seamus
Release Date:23/01/2025
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Character:Self
Release Date:16/04/2023
Sweetwater
Character:Maurice Podoloff
Release Date:14/04/2023
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:05/12/2022
Save Christmas
Character:Santa
Release Date:01/12/2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
Character:Edgar
Release Date:24/06/2022
Every Last One of Them
Character:Murphy
Release Date:22/10/2021
Crime Story
Character:Ben Myers
Release Date:13/08/2021
Audrey
Character:Self - Actor
Release Date:30/11/2020
Astronaut
Character:Angus
Release Date:26/07/2019
Daughter of the Wolf
Character:Father
Release Date:14/06/2019
Polar
Character:Porter
Release Date:25/01/2019
The Last Laugh
Character:Buddy Green
Release Date:11/01/2019
Asher
Character:Avi
Release Date:07/12/2018
Bayou Caviar
Character:Yuri
Release Date:05/10/2018
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Character:Self
Release Date:18/06/2018
Book Club
Character:George
Release Date:18/05/2018
Spielberg
Character:Self
Release Date:05/10/2017
Zipper
Character:George Hiller
Release Date:28/08/2015
Squatters
Character:David Silverman
Release Date:14/05/2014
Caserta Palace Dream
Character:Luigi Vanvitelli
Release Date:18/03/2014
Cas & Dylan
Character:Dr. Cas Pepper
Release Date:17/09/2013
Paranoia
Character:Frank Cassidy
Release Date:14/08/2013
Milius
Character:Self
Release Date:09/03/2013
Very Good Girls
Character:Danny
Release Date:22/01/2013
Casting By
Character:Self
Release Date:01/11/2012
The Two Million Year Old Boy
Character:Narrator
Release Date:26/01/2011
RED
Character:Alexander Dunning
Release Date:13/10/2010
Piranha 3D
Character:Matthew Boyd
Release Date:20/08/2010
Jaws: The Inside Story
Character:Self
Release Date:16/06/2010
The Lightkeepers
Character:Seth
Release Date:18/12/2009
Leaves of Grass
Character:Pug Rothbaum
Release Date:13/09/2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Character:David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
Release Date:05/09/2009
My Life in Ruins
Character:Irv Gideon
Release Date:05/06/2009
The Shark Is Still Working
Character:Self
Release Date:02/05/2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Character:Self
Release Date:16/01/2009
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2009
W.
Character:Dick Cheney
Release Date:17/10/2008
America Betrayed
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/2008
Ocean of Fear
Character:Narrator
Release Date:29/07/2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Character:Self
Release Date:20/06/2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2007
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Character:Self
Release Date:13/06/2006
Poseidon
Character:Richard Nelson
Release Date:03/05/2006
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Character:Self - Actor
Release Date:05/04/2005
Silver City
Character:Chuck Raven
Release Date:17/09/2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Character:Narrator
Release Date:14/09/2004
Coast to Coast
Character:Barnaby Pierce
Release Date:03/04/2004
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Character:Theodore Roosevelt
Release Date:27/05/2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:09/03/2003
The John Garfield Story
Character:Self
Release Date:03/02/2003
The Johnstown Flood
Character:narrator
Release Date:01/01/2003
Manassas: End of Innocence
Character:Narrator
Release Date:19/02/2002
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Character:Alexander Haig
Release Date:09/12/2001
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Character:Self
Release Date:25/11/2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Character:Scoop the Snowman (voice)
Release Date:30/10/2001
In Search of Peace
Character:Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Release Date:21/09/2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?
Character:Micah Donnelly
Release Date:12/09/2001
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Character:Self
Release Date:08/05/2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Character:Antonio Bolivar
Release Date:07/03/2001
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Character:Self
Release Date:29/08/2000
The Crew
Character:Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Release Date:21/08/2000
Fail Safe
Character:President
Release Date:09/04/2000
Lansky
Character:Meyer Lansky
Release Date:27/02/1999
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Character:Narrator
Release Date:06/10/1998
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Character:Self
Release Date:15/09/1998
Krippendorf's Tribe
Character:Prof. Krippendorf
Release Date:27/02/1998
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:22/06/1997
Oliver Twist
Character:Fagin
Release Date:15/05/1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
Character:Sam Vigoda
Release Date:21/03/1997
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Character:Self
Release Date:21/03/1997
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Character:Self
Release Date:18/03/1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1997
In the Teeth of Jaws
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1997
Mad Dog Time
Character:Vic
Release Date:08/11/1996
The Universal Story
Character:Self
Release Date:21/04/1996
James and the Giant Peach
Character:Centipede (voice)
Release Date:12/04/1996
Mr. Holland's Opus
Character:Glenn Holland
Release Date:29/12/1995
The Making of 'Jaws'
Character:Self
Release Date:28/11/1995
The American President
Character:Senator Rumson
Release Date:17/11/1995
The Last Word
Character:Larry
Release Date:27/08/1995
Silent Fall
Character:Dr. Jake Rainer
Release Date:28/10/1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Character:Self
Release Date:25/10/1994
Another Stakeout
Character:Det. Chris Lecce
Release Date:22/07/1993
Lost in Yonkers
Character:Louie Kurnitz
Release Date:14/05/1993
Lincoln
Character:William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
Release Date:26/12/1992
Prisoner of Honor
Character:Col. Picquart
Release Date:02/11/1991
What About Bob?
Character:Dr. Leo Marvin
Release Date:17/05/1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Character:The Player
Release Date:08/02/1991
Once Around
Character:Sam Sharpe
Release Date:18/01/1991
Postcards from the Edge
Character:Dr. Frankenthal
Release Date:14/09/1990
Always
Character:Pete Sandich
Release Date:22/12/1989
Let It Ride
Character:Jay Trotter
Release Date:18/08/1989
Moon Over Parador
Character:Jack Noah
Release Date:09/09/1988
Nuts
Character:Aaron Levinsky
Release Date:20/11/1987
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Character:Self
Release Date:12/10/1987
Stakeout
Character:Det. Chris Lecce
Release Date:05/08/1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Character:Self
Release Date:13/03/1987
Tin Men
Character:Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Release Date:06/03/1987
Citizen Steve
Character:Jedediah
Release Date:01/01/1987
Stand by Me
Character:The Writer
Release Date:08/08/1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Character:Dave Whiteman
Release Date:31/01/1986
Night of 100 Stars II
Character:Self
Release Date:10/03/1985
The Buddy System
Character:Joe
Release Date:04/05/1984
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Character:Ken Harrison
Release Date:02/12/1981
The Competition
Character:Paul Dietrich
Release Date:03/12/1980
The Big Fix
Character:Moses Wine
Release Date:06/10/1978
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Character:Roy Neary
Release Date:14/12/1977
The Goodbye Girl
Character:Elliot Garfield
Release Date:27/11/1977
The Sentinel
Character:Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
Release Date:07/01/1977
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1977
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1977
Victory at Entebbe
Character:Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Release Date:22/12/1976
Jaws
Character:Hooper
Release Date:20/06/1975
Inserts
Character:Boy Wonder
Release Date:20/02/1975
New England Our Way
Character:Self
Release Date:09/12/1974
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Character:Clavius
Release Date:04/10/1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Character:Duddy
Release Date:11/04/1974
Me
Character:Greg
Release Date:28/11/1973
American Graffiti
Character:Curt Henderson
Release Date:11/08/1973
Dillinger
Character:Baby Face Nelson
Release Date:20/07/1973
Catch-22
Character:Yossarian
Release Date:21/05/1973
The Shadow of a Gunman
Character:Tommy Owen
Release Date:04/12/1972
Two for the Money
Character:Morris Gap
Release Date:26/02/1972
Hello Down There
Character:Harold Webster
Release Date:25/06/1969
The Young Runaways
Character:Terry
Release Date:11/09/1968
Valley of the Dolls
Character:Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Release Date:27/12/1967
The Graduate
Character:Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Release Date:21/12/1967
Television Appearances
Stars in the House
Character:Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Character:Self
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Character:Self - Guest
Shots Fired
Character:Arlen Cox
Madoff
Character:Bernie Madoff
Your Family or Mine
Character:Louis
The Real History of Science Fiction
Character:Self
Coma
Character:Professor Hillside
Bubble Guppies
Character:Captain Acrab
Parenthood
Character:Gilliam T. Blount
Tin Man
Character:Mystic Man
The Reichen Show
Character:Self
Weeds
Character:Warren Schiff
The Education of Max Bickford
Character:Max Bickford
Where Are They Now?
Character:Self
Family Guy
Character:Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
Family Guy
Character:Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
The Entertainment Biz
Character:Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
Character:
The View
Character:Self
The Daily Show
Character:Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Character:Self - Guest
The Frank Skinner Show
Character:Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Character:Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Character:
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Character:Narrator (voice)
Saturday Night Live
Character:Self - Host
A Touch of Grace
Character:
Great Performances
Character:Self
Treffpunkte
Character:Self
The New People
Character:
Room 222
Character:
The Mod Squad
Character:
Judd for the Defense
Character:
The Second Hundred Years
Character:Ben Jr.
Occasional Wife
Character:
Felony Squad
Character:
Hey Landlord!
Character:
That Girl
Character:
Gidget
Character:
The Big Valley
Character:Lud
Karen
Character:David Rowe III
Bewitched
Character:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character:Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Character:Self
Ben Casey
Character:
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Presenter
Gunsmoke
Character:Gearshon Gorofsky
The Oscars
Character:Self
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