Richard Dreyfuss
Born
October 29, 1947 (77 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Richard Dreyfuss 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. 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.
Into the Deep
Seamus
2025
Waltzing with Brando
Seymour Kraft
2024
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Self
2023
Sweetwater
Maurice Podoloff
2023
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Narrator (voice)
2022
Save Christmas
Santa
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
Edgar
2022
Every Last One of Them
Murphy
2021
Crime Story
Ben Myers
2021
Audrey
Self - Actor
2020
Astronaut
Angus
2019
Daughter of the Wolf
Father
2019
Polar
Porter
2019
The Last Laugh
Buddy Green
2019
Asher
Avi
2018
Bayou Caviar
Yuri
2018
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Self
2018
Book Club
George
2018
Spielberg
Self
2017
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
2014
Casting By
Self
2012
Jaws: The Inside Story
Self
2010
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
2009
America Betrayed
Narrator
2008
Ocean of Fear
Narrator
2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
2007
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
2006
Weeds
Warren Schiff · (4 episodes)
2005
The John Garfield Story
Self
2003
The Johnstown Flood
narrator
2003
Manassas: End of Innocence
Narrator
2002
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Scoop the Snowman (voice)
2001
In Search of Peace
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2001
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Self
2001
Family Guy
Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
1999
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Narrator
1998
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Self
1998
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Self
1997
The Daily Show
Self · (1 episode)
1996
The Universal Story
Self
1996
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · (1 episode)
1994
Lincoln
William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
1992
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
1988
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Self
1987
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
1985
Valley of the Dolls
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
1967
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
Stars in the House
Self · (1 episode)
2020
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self · (1 episode)
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2018
Shots Fired
Arlen Cox · (10 episodes)
2017
Madoff
Bernie Madoff · (4 episodes)
2016
Zipper
George Hiller
2015
Your Family or Mine
Louis · (10 episodes)
2015
Squatters
David Silverman
2014
The Real History of Science Fiction
Self · (2 episodes)
2014
Caserta Palace Dream
Luigi Vanvitelli
2014
Cas & Dylan
Dr. Cas Pepper
2013
Paranoia
Frank Cassidy
2013
Milius
Self
2013
Very Good Girls
Danny
2013
Coma
Professor Hillside · (2 episodes)
2012
The Two Million Year Old Boy
Narrator
2011
Bubble Guppies
Captain Acrab · (1 episode)
2011
RED
Alexander Dunning
2010
Piranha 3D
Matthew Boyd
2010
Parenthood
Gilliam T. Blount · (4 episodes)
2010
The Lightkeepers
Seth
2009
Leaves of Grass
Pug Rothbaum
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
2009
My Life in Ruins
Irv Gideon
2009
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"
Self
2009
W.
Dick Cheney
2008
Tin Man
Mystic Man · (3 episodes)
2007
Poseidon
Richard Nelson
2006
The Reichen Show
Self · (1 episode)
2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self - Actor
2005
Silver City
Chuck Raven
2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Narrator
2004
Coast to Coast
Barnaby Pierce
2004
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Theodore Roosevelt
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
2003
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Alexander Haig
2001
The Education of Max Bickford
Max Bickford · (22 episodes)
2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?
Micah Donnelly
2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Self
2000
The Crew
Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
2000
Fail Safe
President
2000
Where Are They Now?
Self · (1 episode)
1999
Lansky
Meyer Lansky
1999
Family Guy
Richard Dreyfuss (voice) · (1 episode)
1999
Krippendorf's Tribe
Prof. Krippendorf
1998
The Entertainment Biz
Self · (1 episode)
1998
The Wonderful World of Disney
(1 episode)
1997
The View
Self · (2 episodes)
1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Narrator (voice)
1997
Oliver Twist
Fagin
1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
Sam Vigoda
1997
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Self
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
1997
In the Teeth of Jaws
Self
1997
Mad Dog Time
Vic
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1996
James and the Giant Peach
Centipede (voice)
1996
Mr. Holland's Opus
Glenn Holland
1995
The Making of 'Jaws'
Self
1995
The American President
Senator Rumson
1995
The Frank Skinner Show
Self · (1 episode)
1995
The Last Word
Larry
1995
Silent Fall
Dr. Jake Rainer
1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
1994
Another Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
1993
Lost in Yonkers
Louie Kurnitz
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
(1 episode)
1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Narrator (Voice) · (1 episode)
1992
Prisoner of Honor
Col. Picquart
1991
What About Bob?
Dr. Leo Marvin
1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Player
1991
Once Around
Sam Sharpe
1991
Postcards from the Edge
Dr. Frankenthal
1990
Always
Pete Sandich
1989
Let It Ride
Jay Trotter
1989
Moon Over Parador
Jack Noah
1988
Nuts
Aaron Levinsky
1987
Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
1987
Tin Men
Bill 'BB' Babowsky
1987
Citizen Steve
Jedediah
1987
Stand by Me
The Writer
1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Dave Whiteman
1986
The Buddy System
Joe
1984
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Ken Harrison
1981
The Competition
Paul Dietrich
1980
The Big Fix
Moses Wine
1978
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary
1977
The Goodbye Girl
Elliot Garfield
1977
The Sentinel
Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
1977
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Self
1977
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
Victory at Entebbe
Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
1976
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · (1 episode)
1975
Jaws
Hooper
1975
Inserts
Boy Wonder
1975
New England Our Way
Self
1974
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Clavius
1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Duddy
1974
Me
Greg
1973
American Graffiti
Curt Henderson
1973
Dillinger
Baby Face Nelson
1973
Catch-22
Yossarian
1973
A Touch of Grace
(1 episode)
1973
The Shadow of a Gunman
Tommy Owen
1972
Two for the Money
Morris Gap
1972
Great Performances
Self · (1 episode)
1971
Treffpunkte
Self · (1 episode)
1970
The New People
(1 episode)
1969
Room 222
(1 episode)
1969
Hello Down There
Harold Webster
1969
The Mod Squad
(2 episodes)
1968
The Young Runaways
Terry
1968
The Graduate
Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
1967
Judd for the Defense
(1 episode)
1967
Occasional Wife
(1 episode)
1966
Felony Squad
(1 episode)
1966
Hey Landlord!
(1 episode)
1966
That Girl
(1 episode)
1966
Gidget
(1 episode)
1965
The Big Valley
Lud · (1 episode)
1965
Karen
David Rowe III · (27 episodes)
1964
Bewitched
(1 episode)
1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (1 episode)
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · (1 episode)
1961
Ben Casey
(1 episode)
1961
Gunsmoke
Gearshon Gorofsky · (1 episode)
1955
The Oscars
Self · (3 episodes)
1953
Ocean of Fear
Narrator (voice) · (6 episodes)
Happiness Isn't Everything
Jerry Hamburger · (1 episode)
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
1956