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 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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Movies (138)

Waltzing with Brando
2025 · Seymour Kraft

Tiburón: la historia de un clásico
2025 · Self

Presas del abismo
2025 · Seamus

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023 · Self

Sweetwater
2023 · Maurice Podoloff

Commitment to Life
2023 · Self (archive footage)

Núremberg: Revelaciones inéditas
2022 · Narrator (voice)

Save Christmas
2022 · Santa

Murder at Yellowstone City
2022 · Edgar, Executive Producer

Hasta El Fin (Every Last One of Them)
2021 · Murphy, Executive Producer

Crime Story
2021 · Ben Myers, Executive Producer

Audrey
2020 · Self - Actor

Un sueño extraordinario
2019 · Angus, Executive Producer

Caza Salvaje
2019 · Father

Polar
2019 · Porter

La ultima carcajada
2019 · Buddy Green

Agente Asher
2018 · Avi

Bayou Caviar
2018 · Yuri

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018 · Self

Cuando ellas quieren
2018 · George

Spielberg
2017 · Self

Zipper
2015 · George Hiller

Squatters
2014 · David Silverman

Caserta Palace Dream
2014 · Luigi Vanvitelli

Cas & Dylan
2013 · Dr. Cas Pepper

Paranoia
2013 · Frank Cassidy

Milius
2013 · Self

Muy buenas chicas
2013 · Danny

Casting By
2012 · Self

The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011 · Narrator

RED
2010 · Alexander Dunning

Pirañas 3D
2010 · Matthew Boyd

Jaws: The Inside Story
2010 · Self

Waking Sleeping Beauty
2010 · David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

The Lightkeepers
2009 · Seth

Leaves of Grass
2009 · Pug Rothbaum

Mi vida en ruinas
2009 · Irv Gideon

The Shark Is Still Working
2009 · Self

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

Ocean of Fear
2007 · Narrator

Spielberg on Spielberg
2007 · Self (archive footage)

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007 · Self

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007 · Self

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006 · Self

The Dish on Dolls
2006 · Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)

Poseidón
2006 · Richard Nelson

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

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003 · Theodore Roosevelt

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003 · Self

The John Garfield Story
2003 · Self

The Johnstown Flood
2003 · narrator

Manassas: End of Innocence
2002 · Narrator

The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001 · Alexander Haig

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001 · Self

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001 · Scoop the Snowman (voice)

In Search of Peace
2001 · Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001 · Micah Donnelly

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001 · Self

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001 · Antonio Bolivar

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000 · Self

Una banda de cuidado
2000 · Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

Fail Safe
2000 · President

Lansky: El cerebro del crimen
1999 · Meyer Lansky

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998 · Narrator

The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998 · Self

Krippendorf's Tribe
1998 · Prof. Krippendorf

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997 · Narrator (voice)

Frank Capra's American Dream
1997 · Self

Oliver Twist
1997 · Fagin, Co-Producer

Night Falls on Manhattan
1997 · Sam Vigoda

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997 · Self

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997 · Self

In the Teeth of Jaws
1997 · Self

Mad Dog Time
1996 · Vic

The Universal Story
1996 · Self

James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Centipede (voice)

Mr. Holland's Opus
1995 · Glenn Holland

The Making of 'Jaws'
1995 · Self

The American President
1995 · Senator Rumson

The Last Word
1995 · Larry
Present Tense, Past Perfect
1995 · Director

Silent Fall
1994 · Dr. Jake Rainer

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994 · Self

Quiz Show
1994 · Executive Producer

Another Stakeout
1993 · Det. Chris Lecce

Lost in Yonkers
1993 · Louie Kurnitz
Lincoln
1992 · William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)

Prisoner of Honor
1991 · Col. Picquart

What About Bob?
1991 · Dr. Leo Marvin

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991 · The Player

Once Around
1991 · Sam Sharpe, Co-Producer

Postcards from the Edge
1990 · Dr. Frankenthal

Always
1989 · Pete Sandich

Let It Ride
1989 · Jay Trotter

Moon Over Parador
1988 · Jack Noah

Nuts
1987 · Aaron Levinsky

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987 · Self, Writer, Producer

Stakeout
1987 · Det. Chris Lecce

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987 · Self

Tin Men
1987 · Bill 'BB' Babowsky

Citizen Steve
1987 · Jedediah

Stand by Me
1986 · The Writer

Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986 · Dave Whiteman
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1986

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, Producer

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Roy Neary

The Goodbye Girl
1977 · Elliot Garfield

The Sentinel
1977 · Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977 · Self
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

New England Our Way
1974 · Self

The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974 · Clavius

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974 · Duddy

Me
1973 · Greg

American Graffiti
1973 · Curt Henderson

Dillinger
1973 · Baby Face Nelson

Catch-22
1973 · Yossarian

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

Valley of the Dolls
1967 · Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)

The Graduate
1967 · Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
· Self

Killing Winston Jones
· Winston Jones
TV shows (55)

Stars in the House
2020 · Self

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018 · Self

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018 · Self - Guest

Shots Fired
2017 · Arlen Cox

Madoff
2016 · Bernie Madoff

Your Family or Mine
2015 · Louis

The Real History of Science Fiction
2014 · Self

Coma
2012 · Professor Hillside

Bubble Guppies
2011 · Captain Acrab

Todo en Familia
2010 · Gilliam T. Blount

Tin Man
2007 · Mystic Man

The Reichen Show
2005 · Self

Weeds
2005 · Warren Schiff

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003 · Voice of Theodore Roosevelt

The Education of Max Bickford
2001 · Max Bickford
Where Are They Now?
1999 · Self

Padre de Familia
1999 · Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice), Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
The Entertainment Biz
1998 · Self

The Wonderful World of Disney
1997

The View
1997 · Self

HARDtalk
1997

E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Self

The Daily Show
1996 · Self

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Self - Guest

TFI Friday
1996

The Frank Skinner Show
1995 · Self

Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992 · Narrator (voice)
American Chronicles
1990 · narrator

Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host

A Touch of Grace
1973

The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971 · Tony Injijikian

Great Performances
1971 · Self
Treffpunkte
1970 · Self

The New People
1969

Room 222
1969

The Mod Squad
1968

Judd, for the Defense
1967

The Second Hundred Years
1967 · Ben Jr.

Occasional Wife
1966

Felony Squad
1966

Hey Landlord!
1966

That Girl
1966

Gidget
1965

The Big Valley
1965 · Lud

Karen
1964 · David Rowe III

Bewitched
1964

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self

The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self

Ben Casey
1961

Gunsmoke
1955 · Gearshon Gorofsky

The Oscars
1953 · Self

Ocean of Fear
· Narrator (voice)
Happiness Isn't Everything
· Jerry Hamburger











