Image of Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in a number of 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Dreyfuss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


Read bio at tmdb | Read bio at Wikipedia
Born:
Oct 29, 1947 In Brooklyn, New York, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
123
First Appeared:
In the movie Waltzing With Brando
Latest Project:
Movie Sweetwater 2023-04-14
Known For
Filmography
Movie Waltzing With Brando Seymour Kraft 2025
Movie Sweetwater Maurice Podoloff 2023-04-14
Movie Save Christmas Santa 2022-12-01
Movie Murder at Yellowstone City Edgar 2022-06-24
Movie Crime Story Ben Myers 2021-08-13
Movie Audrey Self - Actor 2020-11-30
Movie Polar Porter 2019-01-25
Movie The Last Laugh Buddy Green 2019-01-11
Movie Astronaut Angus 2019-07-26
Movie Daughter of the Wolf Father 2019-06-14
Movie Book Club George 2018-05-18
Movie Bayou Caviar Yuri 2018-10-05
Movie Asher Avi 2018-12-07
Movie Spielberg Self 2017-10-05
Series Shots Fired Arlen Cox 2017-03-22
Series Madoff Bernie Madoff 2016-02-03
Movie Third Party President: Citizen Rocky Self 2016-09-19
Movie Zipper George Hiller 2015-08-28
Series Your Family or Mine Louis 2015-04-08
Movie Squatters David Silverman 2014-05-14
Movie And the Oscar Goes To... Self (archive footage) 2014-02-01
Movie Caserta Palace Dream Luigi Vanvitelli 2014-03-18
Movie Very Good Girls Danny 2013-01-22
Movie Cas & Dylan Dr. Cas Pepper 2013-09-17
Movie Paranoia Frank Cassidy 2013-08-14
Movie Milius Self 2013-03-09
Movie Casting By Self 2012-11-01
Series Coma Professor Hillside 2012-09-03
Movie RED Alexander Dunning 2010-10-13
Movie Jaws: The Inside Story Self 2010-06-16
Movie Piranha 3D Matthew Boyd 2010-08-20
Movie I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale Self 2009-01-16
Movie The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws" Self 2009-05-02
Movie The Lightkeepers Seth 2009-12-18
Movie Leaves of Grass Pug Rothbaum 2009-09-13
Movie Waking Sleeping Beauty David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage) 2009-09-05
Movie My Life in Ruins Irv Gideon 2009-06-05
Movie America Betrayed Narrator 2008-01-01
Movie W. Dick Cheney 2008-10-17
Movie The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo Self 2007-01-01
Movie AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition Self 2007-06-20
Series Tin Man Mystic Man 2007-12-02
Movie Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters Self 2006-06-13
Movie Poseidon Richard Nelson 2006-05-10
Movie The Adventures of Errol Flynn Self - Actor 2005-04-05
Movie Coast to Coast Barnaby Pierce 2004-04-03
Movie A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope Narrator 2004-09-14
Movie Silver City Chuck Raven 2004-09-17
Movie The John Garfield Story Self 2003-02-03
Movie Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion Theodore Roosevelt 2003-05-27
Movie Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Self 2003-03-09
Movie The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' Self 2001-05-08
Movie The Old Man Who Read Love Stories 2001-03-07
Movie The Day Reagan Was Shot Alexander Haig 2001-12-09
Movie Who Is Cletis Tout? Micah Donnelly 2001-09-12
Movie R2-D2: Beneath the Dome Self 2001-11-25
Movie In Search of Peace Yitzhak Rabin (voice) 2001-09-21
Movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys Scoop the Snowman (voice) 2001-10-14
Series The Education of Max Bickford Max Bickford 2001-09-23
Movie Fail Safe President 2000-04-09
Movie Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me Self 2000-08-29
Movie The Crew Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator 2000-08-21
Movie Lansky Meyer Lansky 1999-02-27
Movie The Making of 'American Graffiti' Self 1998-09-15
Movie Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude Narrator 1998-10-06
Movie Krippendorf's Tribe Prof. Krippendorf 1998-02-27
Movie Frank Capra's American Dream Self 1997-01-01
Movie Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady Self 1997-03-21
Movie In the Teeth of Jaws Self 1997-01-01
Movie The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon Narrator (voice) 1997-06-22
Movie Oliver Twist Fagin 1997-05-15
Movie Night Falls on Manhattan Sam Vigoda 1997-03-21
Movie James and the Giant Peach Centipede (voice) 1996-04-12
Movie The Universal Story Self 1996-04-21
Movie Mad Dog Time Vic 1996-11-08
Movie The Last Word Larry 1995-08-27
Movie The Making of 'Jaws' Self 1995-11-28
Movie Mr. Holland's Opus Glenn Holland 1995-12-29
Movie The American President Senator Rumson 1995-11-17
Movie Silent Fall Dr. Jake Rainer 1994-10-28
Movie It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein Self 1994-10-25
Movie Another Stakeout Det. Chris Lecce 1993-07-22
Movie Lost in Yonkers Louie Kurnitz 1993-05-14
Movie Lincoln William Tecumsah Sherman (voice) 1992-12-26
Movie Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead The Player 1991-02-08
Movie Once Around Sam Sharpe 1991-01-18
Movie What About Bob? Dr. Leo Marvin 1991-05-17
Movie Prisoner of Honor Col. Picquart 1991-11-02
Movie Postcards from the Edge Dr. Frankenthal 1990-09-14
Movie Let It Ride Jay Trotter 1989-08-18
Movie Always Pete Sandich 1989-12-22
Movie Moon Over Parador Jack Noah 1988-09-09
Movie James Stewart: A Wonderful Life Self 1988-11-22
Movie Citizen Steve Jedediah 1987-01-01
Movie Nuts Aaron Levinsky 1987-11-20
Movie Tin Men Bill 'BB' Babowsky 1987-03-06
Movie Stakeout Det. Chris Lecce 1987-08-05
Movie Stand by Me The Writer 1986-08-08
Movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills Dave Whiteman 1986-01-31
Movie Night of 100 Stars II Self 1985-03-10
Movie The Buddy System Joe 1984-05-04
Movie Whose Life Is It Anyway? Ken Harrison 1981-12-02
Movie The Competition Paul Dietrich 1980-12-03
Movie The Big Fix Moses Wine 1978-10-06
Movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind Roy Neary 1977-12-14
Movie The Sentinel Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited) 1977-01-07
Movie The Goodbye Girl Elliot Garfield 1977-11-27
Movie Victory at Entebbe Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu 1976-12-13
Movie Inserts Boy Wonder 1975-02-20
Movie Jaws Hooper 1975-06-20
Movie New England Our Way Self 1974-12-09
Movie The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Duddy 1974-04-11
Movie The Second Coming of Suzanne Clavius 1974-10-04
Movie Catch-22 Yossarian 1973-05-21
Movie American Graffiti Curt Henderson 1973-08-11
Movie Dillinger Baby Face Nelson 1973-07-20
Movie The Shadow of a Gunman Tommy Owen 1972-12-04
Movie Two for the Money Morris Gap 1972-02-26
Movie Hello Down There Harold Webster 1969-01-01
Movie The Young Runaways Terry 1968-09-11
Movie Valley of the Dolls Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited) 1967-12-27
Movie The Graduate Boarding House Resident (uncredited) 1967-12-21
Series Karen David Rowe III 1964-10-05