
Richard Dreyfuss
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 29, 1947 (age 79)
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Richard Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) 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. He 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.
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Filmography

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Movie · as Self

Killing Winston Jones
Movie · as Winston Jones

Ocean of Fear
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 6 eps
Happiness Isn't Everything
TV · as Jerry Hamburger · 1 ep

Waltzing with Brando
Movie · as Seymour Kraft

Into the Deep
Movie · as Seamus

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Movie · as Self

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Movie · as Self

Sweetwater
Movie · as Maurice Podoloff

Commitment to Life
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Murder at Yellowstone City
Movie · as Edgar

Save Christmas
Movie · as Santa

Every Last One of Them
Movie · as Murphy

Crime Story
Movie · as Ben Myers

Audrey
Movie · as Self - Actor

Stars in the House
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Last Laugh
Movie · as Buddy Green

Polar
Movie · as Porter

Daughter of the Wolf
Movie · as Father

Astronaut
Movie · as Angus

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Movie · as Self

Book Club
Movie · as George

Bayou Caviar
Movie · as Yuri

Asher
Movie · as Avi

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Spielberg
Movie · as Self

Shots Fired
TV · as Arlen Cox · 10 eps

Madoff
TV · as Bernie Madoff · 4 eps

Zipper
Movie · as George Hiller

Your Family or Mine
TV · as Louis · 10 eps

Squatters
Movie · as David Silverman

Caserta Palace Dream
Movie · as Luigi Vanvitelli

The Real History of Science Fiction
TV · as Self · 2 eps

Very Good Girls
Movie · as Danny

Paranoia
Movie · as Frank Cassidy

Cas & Dylan
Movie · as Dr. Cas Pepper

Milius
Movie · as Self

Casting By
Movie · as Self

Coma
TV · as Professor Hillside · 2 eps

The Two Million Year Old Boy
Movie · as Narrator

Bubble Guppies
TV · as Captain Acrab · 1 ep

Piranha 3D
Movie · as Matthew Boyd

RED
Movie · as Alexander Dunning

Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie · as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

Jaws: The Inside Story
Movie · as Self

Parenthood
TV · as Gilliam T. Blount · 4 eps

My Life in Ruins
Movie · as Irv Gideon

Leaves of Grass
Movie · as Pug Rothbaum

The Lightkeepers
Movie · as Seth

The Shark Is Still Working
Movie · as Self

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Movie · as Self

American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Movie · as Self

W.
Movie · as Dick Cheney

America Betrayed
Movie · as Narrator

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Movie · as Self

Ocean of Fear
Movie · as Narrator

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Movie · as Self

Spielberg on Spielberg
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Tin Man
TV · as Mystic Man · 3 eps

Poseidon
Movie · as Richard Nelson

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Movie · as Self

The Dish on Dolls
Movie · as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)

The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Movie · as Self - Actor

Weeds
TV · as Warren Schiff · 4 eps

The Reichen Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Silver City
Movie · as Chuck Raven

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Movie · as Narrator

Coast to Coast
Movie · as Barnaby Pierce

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Movie · as Self

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Movie · as Theodore Roosevelt

The Johnstown Flood
Movie · as narrator

The John Garfield Story
Movie · as Self

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
TV · as Voice of Theodore Roosevelt · 2 eps

Manassas: End of Innocence
Movie · as Narrator

Who Is Cletis Tout?
Movie · as Micah Donnelly

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Movie · as Antonio Bolivar

The Day Reagan Was Shot
Movie · as Alexander Haig

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Movie · as Self

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Movie · as Scoop the Snowman (voice)

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Movie · as Self

In Search of Peace
Movie · as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

The Education of Max Bickford
TV · as Max Bickford · 22 eps

Fail Safe
Movie · as President

The Crew
Movie · as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Movie · as Self

Lansky
Movie · as Meyer Lansky

Family Guy
TV · as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice), Richard Dreyfuss (voice) · 1 ep
Where Are They Now?
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Krippendorf's Tribe
Movie · as Prof. Krippendorf

The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Movie · as Self

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Movie · as Narrator
The Entertainment Biz
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Night Falls on Manhattan
Movie · as Sam Vigoda

Oliver Twist
Movie · as Fagin

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Frank Capra's American Dream
Movie · as Self

In the Teeth of Jaws
Movie · as Self

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Movie · as Self

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Movie · as Self

The View
TV · as Self · 2 eps

The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · 1 ep

HARDtalk
TV · 1 ep

James and the Giant Peach
Movie · as Centipede (voice)

Mad Dog Time
Movie · as Vic

The Universal Story
Movie · as Self

The Daily Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

TFI Friday
TV · 1 ep

E! True Hollywood Story
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Mr. Holland's Opus
Movie · as Glenn Holland

The American President
Movie · as Senator Rumson

The Making of 'Jaws'
Movie · as Self

The Last Word
Movie · as Larry

The Frank Skinner Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Movie · as Self

Silent Fall
Movie · as Dr. Jake Rainer

Inside the Actors Studio
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Another Stakeout
Movie · as Det. Chris Lecce

Lost in Yonkers
Movie · as Louie Kurnitz
Lincoln
Movie · as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · 1 ep

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 1 ep

What About Bob?
Movie · as Dr. Leo Marvin

Once Around
Movie · as Sam Sharpe

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Movie · as The Player

Prisoner of Honor
Movie · as Col. Picquart

Postcards from the Edge
Movie · as Dr. Frankenthal
American Chronicles
TV · as narrator · 13 eps

Always
Movie · as Pete Sandich

Let It Ride
Movie · as Jay Trotter

Moon Over Parador
Movie · as Jack Noah

Tin Men
Movie · as Bill 'BB' Babowsky

Stakeout
Movie · as Det. Chris Lecce

Citizen Steve
Movie · as Jedediah

Nuts
Movie · as Aaron Levinsky

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Movie · as Self

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie · as Self

Stand by Me
Movie · as The Writer

Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Movie · as Dave Whiteman
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Movie

Night of 100 Stars II
Movie · as Self

The Buddy System
Movie · as Joe

Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Movie · as Ken Harrison

The Competition
Movie · as Paul Dietrich

The Big Fix
Movie · as Moses Wine

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Movie · as Roy Neary
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Movie · as Self

The Goodbye Girl
Movie · as Elliot Garfield

The Sentinel
Movie · as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
Movie

Victory at Entebbe
Movie · as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

Jaws
Movie · as Hooper

Inserts
Movie · as Boy Wonder

Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Movie · as Duddy

The Second Coming of Suzanne
Movie · as Clavius

New England Our Way
Movie · as Self

American Graffiti
Movie · as Curt Henderson

Catch-22
Movie · as Yossarian

Dillinger
Movie · as Baby Face Nelson

Me
Movie · as Greg

A Touch of Grace
TV · 1 ep

The Shadow of a Gunman
Movie · as Tommy Owen

Two for the Money
Movie · as Morris Gap

Great Performances
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The New Dick Van Dyke Show
TV · as Tony Injijikian · 1 ep
Treffpunkte
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Hello Down There
Movie · as Harold Webster

Room 222
TV · 1 ep

The New People
TV · 1 ep

The Young Runaways
Movie · as Terry

The Mod Squad
TV · 2 eps

The Graduate
Movie · as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

Valley of the Dolls
Movie · as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)

Judd, for the Defense
TV · 1 ep

The Second Hundred Years
TV · as Ben Jr. · 1 ep

That Girl
TV · 1 ep

Felony Squad
TV · 1 ep

Hey Landlord!
TV · 1 ep

Occasional Wife
TV · 1 ep

Gidget
TV · 1 ep

The Big Valley
TV · as Lud · 1 ep

Bewitched
TV · 1 ep

Karen
TV · as David Rowe III · 27 eps

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Ben Casey
TV · 1 ep

The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Gunsmoke
TV · as Gearshon Gorofsky · 1 ep

The Oscars
TV · as Self · 3 eps











