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Richard Dreyfuss
Born · October 29, 1947 (77 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Bio
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.
Into the Deep
Seamus
0.0
2025
Waltzing with Brando
Seymour Kraft
0.0
2024
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Self
0.0
2023
Sweetwater
Maurice Podoloff
7.1
2023
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Narrator (voice)
6.6
2022
Save Christmas
Santa
0.0
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
Edgar
5.5
2022
Every Last One of Them
Murphy
5.4
2021
Crime Story
Ben Myers
4.0
2021
Audrey
Self - Actor
7.2
2020
Astronaut
Angus
6.2
2019
Daughter of the Wolf
Father
5.5
2019
Polar
Porter
6.3
2019
The Last Laugh
Buddy Green
5.4
2019
Asher
Avi
5.8
2018
Bayou Caviar
Yuri
4.5
2018
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Self
0.0
2018
Book Club
George
6.2
2018
Spielberg
Self
7.6
2017
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
7.0
2014
Casting By
Self
7.1
2012
Jaws: The Inside Story
Self
7.3
2010
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
6.8
2009
America Betrayed
Narrator
6.0
2008
Ocean of Fear
Narrator
0.0
2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
6.4
2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
6.0
2007
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
6.5
2006
Weeds
Warren Schiff · (4 episodes)
7.5
2005
The John Garfield Story
Self
8.0
2003
The Johnstown Flood
narrator
6.0
2003
Manassas: End of Innocence
Narrator
0.0
2002
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
6.5
2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Scoop the Snowman (voice)
5.9
2001
In Search of Peace
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
6.5
2001
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Self
6.9
2001
Family Guy
Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)
7.4
1999
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Narrator
9.0
1998
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Self
7.8
1998
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Self
0.0
1997
The Daily Show
Self · (1 episode)
6.4
1996
The Universal Story
Self
7.7
1996
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · (1 episode)
7.4
1994
Lincoln
William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
7.2
1992
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
6.0
1988
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Self
0.0
1987
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
8.0
1985
Valley of the Dolls
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
6.0
1967
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
0.0
Stars in the House
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
2020
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self · (1 episode)
7.5
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
7.5
2018
Shots Fired
Arlen Cox · (10 episodes)
5.8
2017
Madoff
Bernie Madoff · (4 episodes)
6.5
2016
Zipper
George Hiller
5.5
2015
Your Family or Mine
Louis · (10 episodes)
6.7
2015
Squatters
David Silverman
6.0
2014
The Real History of Science Fiction
Self · (2 episodes)
6.9
2014
Caserta Palace Dream
Luigi Vanvitelli
2.0
2014
Cas & Dylan
Dr. Cas Pepper
6.2
2013
Paranoia
Frank Cassidy
5.7
2013
Milius
Self
7.0
2013
Very Good Girls
Danny
5.8
2013
Coma
Professor Hillside · (2 episodes)
6.4
2012
The Two Million Year Old Boy
Narrator
0.0
2011
Bubble Guppies
Captain Acrab · (1 episode)
7.4
2011
RED
Alexander Dunning
6.7
2010
Piranha 3D
Matthew Boyd
5.4
2010
Parenthood
Gilliam T. Blount · (1 episode)
7.3
2010
The Lightkeepers
Seth
6.0
2009
Leaves of Grass
Pug Rothbaum
6.0
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
7.2
2009
My Life in Ruins
Irv Gideon
6.1
2009
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"
Self
7.1
2009
W.
Dick Cheney
6.2
2008
Tin Man
Mystic Man · (3 episodes)
6.8
2007
Poseidon
Richard Nelson
5.8
2006
The Reichen Show
Self · (1 episode)
4.8
2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self - Actor
7.8
2005
Silver City
Chuck Raven
6.1
2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Narrator
7.5
2004
Coast to Coast
Barnaby Pierce
7.0
2004
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Theodore Roosevelt
5.0
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
7.1
2003
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Alexander Haig
6.4
2001
The Education of Max Bickford
Max Bickford · (22 episodes)
1.0
2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?
Micah Donnelly
5.8
2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
6.2
2001
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Self
7.5
2000
The Crew
Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
5.5
2000
Fail Safe
President
6.9
2000
Where Are They Now?
Self · (1 episode)
7.5
1999
Lansky
Meyer Lansky
5.6
1999
Family Guy
Richard Dreyfuss (voice) · (1 episode)
7.4
1999
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Self · (1 episode)
8.2
1998
Krippendorf's Tribe
Prof. Krippendorf
4.6
1998
The Wonderful World of Disney
(1 episode)
6.6
1997
The View
Self · (2 episodes)
4.4
1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Narrator (voice)
7.4
1997
Oliver Twist
Fagin
6.2
1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
Sam Vigoda
6.3
1997
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Self
8.0
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
6.2
1997
In the Teeth of Jaws
Self
8.0
1997
Mad Dog Time
Vic
5.4
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
3.5
1996
James and the Giant Peach
Centipede (voice)
6.6
1996
Mr. Holland's Opus
Glenn Holland
7.0
1995
The Making of 'Jaws'
Self
6.7
1995
The American President
Senator Rumson
6.5
1995
The Frank Skinner Show
Self · (1 episode)
7.5
1995
The Last Word
Larry
2.5
1995
Silent Fall
Dr. Jake Rainer
5.2
1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
8.5
1994
Another Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
5.5
1993
Lost in Yonkers
Louie Kurnitz
6.4
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
(1 episode)
5.4
1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Narrator (Voice) · (1 episode)
10.0
1992
Prisoner of Honor
Col. Picquart
6.2
1991
What About Bob?
Dr. Leo Marvin
6.9
1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Player
6.9
1991
Once Around
Sam Sharpe
6.0
1991
Postcards from the Edge
Dr. Frankenthal
6.6
1990
Always
Pete Sandich
6.3
1989
Let It Ride
Jay Trotter
6.3
1989
Moon Over Parador
Jack Noah
5.7
1988
Nuts
Aaron Levinsky
6.3
1987
Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
6.5
1987
Tin Men
Bill 'BB' Babowsky
6.3
1987
Citizen Steve
Jedediah
5.7
1987
Stand by Me
The Writer
7.9
1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Dave Whiteman
5.9
1986
The Buddy System
Joe
4.7
1984
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Ken Harrison
7.1
1981
The Competition
Paul Dietrich
6.1
1980
The Big Fix
Moses Wine
5.6
1978
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary
7.4
1977
The Goodbye Girl
Elliot Garfield
6.9
1977
The Sentinel
Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited)
6.1
1977
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Self
0.0
1977
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
0.0
1977
Victory at Entebbe
Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
5.0
1976
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · (1 episode)
6.9
1975
Jaws
Hooper
7.7
1975
Inserts
Boy Wonder
6.0
1975
New England Our Way
Self
0.0
1974
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Clavius
2.6
1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Duddy
5.8
1974
Me
Greg
0.0
1973
American Graffiti
Curt Henderson
7.0
1973
Dillinger
Baby Face Nelson
6.5
1973
Catch-22
Yossarian
5.0
1973
A Touch of Grace
(1 episode)
5.0
1973
The Shadow of a Gunman
Tommy Owen
0.0
1972
Two for the Money
Morris Gap
0.0
1972
Great Performances
Self · (1 episode)
5.2
1971
Treffpunkte
Self · (1 episode)
0.0
1970
The New People
(1 episode)
5.7
1969
Room 222
(1 episode)
5.7
1969
Hello Down There
Harold Webster
5.9
1969
The Mod Squad
(2 episodes)
6.5
1968
The Young Runaways
Terry
6.0
1968
The Graduate
Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
7.6
1967
Judd for the Defense
(1 episode)
7.5
1967
Occasional Wife
(1 episode)
7.5
1966
Felony Squad
(1 episode)
7.0
1966
Hey Landlord!
(1 episode)
5.0
1966
That Girl
(1 episode)
6.1
1966
Gidget
(1 episode)
6.4
1965
The Big Valley
Lud · (1 episode)
6.0
1965
Karen
David Rowe III · (27 episodes)
4.0
1964
Bewitched
(1 episode)
7.9
1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (1 episode)
7.4
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · (1 episode)
5.1
1961
Ben Casey
(1 episode)
5.7
1961
Gunsmoke
Gearshon Gorofsky · (1 episode)
6.5
1955
The Oscars
Self · (3 episodes)
7.0
1953
Ocean of Fear
Narrator (voice) · (6 episodes)
6.0
Happiness Isn't Everything
Jerry Hamburger · (1 episode)
0.0