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.
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- Born:
- Oct 29, 1947 In Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 123
- First Appeared:
- In the series Karen 1964-10-05
- Latest Project:
- Movie Waltzing with Brando 2024-11-30
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Waltzing with Brando | Seymour Kraft | 2024-11-30 |
| Movie | Sweetwater | Maurice Podoloff | 2023-04-14 |
| Movie | Murder at Yellowstone City | Edgar | 2022-06-24 |
| Movie | Save Christmas | Santa | 2022-12-01 |
| Movie | Crime Story | Ben Myers | 2021-08-13 |
| Movie | Audrey | Self - Actor | 2020-11-30 |
| Movie | The Last Laugh | Buddy Green | 2019-01-11 |
| Movie | Polar | Porter | 2019-01-25 |
| Movie | Daughter of the Wolf | Father | 2019-06-14 |
| Movie | Astronaut | Angus | 2019-07-26 |
| Movie | Book Club | George | 2018-05-18 |
| Movie | Third Party President: Citizen Rocky | Self | 2018-06-18 |
| Movie | Bayou Caviar | Yuri | 2018-10-05 |
| Movie | Asher | Avi | 2018-12-07 |
| Series | Shots Fired | Arlen Cox | 2017-03-22 |
| Movie | Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
| Series | Madoff | Bernie Madoff | 2016-02-03 |
| Series | Your Family or Mine | Louis | 2015-04-08 |
| Movie | Zipper | George Hiller | 2015-08-28 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Squatters | David Silverman | 2014-05-14 |
| Movie | Caserta Palace Dream | Luigi Vanvitelli | 2014-03-18 |
| Movie | Very Good Girls | Danny | 2013-01-22 |
| Movie | Milius | Self | 2013-03-09 |
| Movie | Cas & Dylan | Dr. Cas Pepper | 2013-09-17 |
| Movie | Paranoia | Frank Cassidy | 2013-08-14 |
| Series | Coma | Professor Hillside | 2012-09-03 |
| Movie | Casting By | Self | 2012-11-01 |
| Movie | Jaws: The Inside Story | Self | 2010-06-16 |
| Movie | Piranha 3D | Matthew Boyd | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | RED | Alexander Dunning | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws" | Self | 2009-05-02 |
| Movie | My Life in Ruins | Irv Gideon | 2009-06-05 |
| Movie | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self | 2009-01-16 |
| 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 | 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 | Poseidon | Richard Nelson | 2006-05-03 |
| Movie | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Self | 2006-06-13 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Self - Actor | 2005-04-05 |
| Movie | Silver City | Chuck Raven | 2004-09-17 |
| 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 | The John Garfield Story | Self | 2003-02-03 |
| Movie | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self | 2003-03-09 |
| Movie | Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion | Theodore Roosevelt | 2003-05-27 |
| Movie | Who Is Cletis Tout? | Micah Donnelly | 2001-09-12 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' | Self | 2001-05-08 |
| Movie | In Search of Peace | Yitzhak Rabin (voice) | 2001-09-21 |
| Movie | The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | 2001-03-07 | |
| Movie | R2-D2: Beneath the Dome | Self | 2001-11-25 |
| Movie | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig | 2001-12-09 |
| 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 | The Crew | Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator | 2000-08-21 |
| Movie | Fail Safe | President | 2000-04-09 |
| Movie | Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me | Self | 2000-08-29 |
| Movie | Lansky | Meyer Lansky | 1999-02-27 |
| Movie | Krippendorf's Tribe | Prof. Krippendorf | 1998-02-27 |
| Movie | The Making of 'American Graffiti' | Self | 1998-09-15 |
| Movie | Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude | Narrator | 1998-10-06 |
| Movie | Frank Capra's American Dream | Self | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | In the Teeth of Jaws | Self | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady | Self | 1997-03-21 |
| Movie | Night Falls on Manhattan | Sam Vigoda | 1997-03-21 |
| Movie | The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon | Narrator (voice) | 1997-06-22 |
| Movie | Oliver Twist | Fagin | 1997-05-15 |
| 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 American President | Senator Rumson | 1995-11-17 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Jaws' | Self | 1995-11-28 |
| Movie | Mr. Holland's Opus | Glenn Holland | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | Self | 1994-10-25 |
| Movie | Silent Fall | Dr. Jake Rainer | 1994-10-28 |
| Movie | Lost in Yonkers | Louie Kurnitz | 1993-05-14 |
| Movie | Another Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | 1993-07-22 |
| Movie | Lincoln | William Tecumsah Sherman (voice) | 1992-12-26 |
| Movie | Once Around | Sam Sharpe | 1991-01-18 |
| Movie | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | The Player | 1991-02-08 |
| Movie | Prisoner of Honor | Col. Picquart | 1991-11-02 |
| Movie | What About Bob? | Dr. Leo Marvin | 1991-05-17 |
| 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 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Dave Whiteman | 1986-01-31 |
| Movie | Stand by Me | The Writer | 1986-08-08 |
| 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 | 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 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Roy Neary | 1977-12-14 |
| Movie | Victory at Entebbe | Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu | 1976-12-13 |
| Movie | Jaws | Hooper | 1975-06-20 |
| Movie | Inserts | Boy Wonder | 1975-02-20 |
| Movie | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Duddy | 1974-04-11 |
| Movie | New England Our Way | Self | 1974-12-09 |
| Movie | The Second Coming of Suzanne | Clavius | 1974-10-04 |
| Movie | Dillinger | Baby Face Nelson | 1973-07-20 |
| Movie | Catch-22 | Yossarian | 1973-05-21 |
| Movie | American Graffiti | Curt Henderson | 1973-08-11 |
| Movie | Two for the Money | Morris Gap | 1972-02-26 |
| Movie | The Shadow of a Gunman | Tommy Owen | 1972-12-04 |
| Movie | Hello Down There | Harold Webster | 1969-01-01 |
| Movie | The Young Runaways | Terry | 1968-09-11 |
| Movie | The Graduate | Boarding House Resident (uncredited) | 1967-12-21 |
| Movie | Valley of the Dolls | Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited) | 1967-12-27 |
| Series | Karen | David Rowe III | 1964-10-05 |