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 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 |