Richard Dreyfuss

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1947-10-29 (Age: 79)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Richard Dreyfuss

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.

Filmography (132)

⭐ 5.8 Role: Seymour Kraft

Waltzing with Brando

⭐ 7.5 Role: Self

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

⭐ 5.9 Role: Seamus

Into the Deep

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life

⭐ 6.9 Role: Maurice Podoloff

Sweetwater

⭐ 0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Commitment to Life

⭐ 6.9 Role: Narrator (voice)

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony

⭐ 0 Role: Santa

Save Christmas

⭐ 5.5 Role: Edgar

Murder at Yellowstone City

⭐ 5.2 Role: Murphy

Every Last One of Them

⭐ 3.8 Role: Ben Myers

Crime Story

⭐ 7.2 Role: Self - Actor

Audrey

⭐ 6.2 Role: Angus

Astronaut

⭐ 5.5 Role: Father

Daughter of the Wolf

⭐ 6.4 Role: Porter

Polar

⭐ 5.4 Role: Buddy Green

The Last Laugh

⭐ 5.8 Role: Avi

Asher

⭐ 4.6 Role: Yuri

Bayou Caviar

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky

⭐ 6.2 Role: George

Book Club

⭐ 7.6 Role: Self

Spielberg

⭐ 5.5 Role: George Hiller

Zipper

⭐ 6.0 Role: David Silverman

Squatters

⭐ 6.0 Role: Luigi Vanvitelli

Caserta Palace Dream

⭐ 6.3 Role: Dr. Cas Pepper

Cas & Dylan

⭐ 5.7 Role: Frank Cassidy

Paranoia

⭐ 7.1 Role: Self

Milius

⭐ 5.8 Role: Danny

Very Good Girls

⭐ 6.9 Role: Self

Casting By

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

The Two Million Year Old Boy

⭐ 6.7 Role: Alexander Dunning

RED

⭐ 5.4 Role: Matthew Boyd

Piranha 3D

⭐ 7.3 Role: Self

Jaws: The Inside Story

⭐ 5.8 Role: Seth

The Lightkeepers

⭐ 6.0 Role: Pug Rothbaum

Leaves of Grass

⭐ 7.2 Role: David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

Waking Sleeping Beauty

⭐ 6.2 Role: Irv Gideon

My Life in Ruins

⭐ 7.3 Role: Self

The Shark Is Still Working

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

⭐ 0 Role: Self

American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist

⭐ 6.2 Role: Dick Cheney

W.

⭐ 6.0 Role: Narrator

America Betrayed

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

Ocean of Fear

⭐ 6.7 Role: Self

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

⭐ 6.0 Role: Self

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

⭐ 6.5 Role: Self

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

⭐ 0 Role: Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)

The Dish on Dolls

⭐ 5.9 Role: Richard Nelson

Poseidon

⭐ 7.7 Role: Self - Actor

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

⭐ 6.1 Role: Chuck Raven

Silver City

⭐ 7.6 Role: Narrator

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

⭐ 7.0 Role: Barnaby Pierce

Coast to Coast

⭐ 6.0 Role: Theodore Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion

⭐ 7.1 Role: Self

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

⭐ 8.4 Role: Self

The John Garfield Story

⭐ 7.5 Role: narrator

The Johnstown Flood

⭐ 8.0 Role: Narrator

Manassas: End of Innocence

⭐ 6.5 Role: Alexander Haig

The Day Reagan Was Shot

⭐ 6.7 Role: Self

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

⭐ 5.9 Role: Scoop the Snowman (voice)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys

⭐ 7.0 Role: Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

In Search of Peace

⭐ 5.8 Role: Micah Donnelly

Who Is Cletis Tout?

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

⭐ 6.7 Role: Antonio Bolivar

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

⭐ 7.6 Role: Self

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me

⭐ 5.4 Role: Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

The Crew

⭐ 6.9 Role: President

Fail Safe

⭐ 5.6 Role: Meyer Lansky

Lansky

⭐ 8.0 Role: Narrator

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

⭐ 7.8 Role: Self

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

⭐ 4.6 Role: Prof. Krippendorf

Krippendorf's Tribe

⭐ 7.3 Role: Narrator (voice)

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

⭐ 6.5 Role: Self

Frank Capra's American Dream

⭐ 6.2 Role: Fagin

Oliver Twist

⭐ 6.3 Role: Sam Vigoda

Night Falls on Manhattan

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

In the Teeth of Jaws

⭐ 5.3 Role: Vic

Mad Dog Time

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

The Universal Story

⭐ 6.6 Role: Centipede (voice)

James and the Giant Peach

⭐ 7.0 Role: Glenn Holland

Mr. Holland's Opus

⭐ 6.7 Role: Self

The Making of 'Jaws'

⭐ 6.5 Role: Senator Rumson

The American President

⭐ 3.2 Role: Larry

The Last Word

⭐ 5.3 Role: Dr. Jake Rainer

Silent Fall

⭐ 8.8 Role: Self

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

⭐ 5.5 Role: Det. Chris Lecce

Another Stakeout

⭐ 6.3 Role: Louie Kurnitz

Lost in Yonkers

⭐ 7.3 Role: William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)

Lincoln

⭐ 6.3 Role: Col. Picquart

Prisoner of Honor

⭐ 6.9 Role: Dr. Leo Marvin

What About Bob?

⭐ 6.9 Role: The Player

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

⭐ 6.1 Role: Sam Sharpe

Once Around

⭐ 6.6 Role: Dr. Frankenthal

Postcards from the Edge

⭐ 6.2 Role: Pete Sandich

Always

⭐ 6.4 Role: Jay Trotter

Let It Ride

⭐ 5.9 Role: Jack Noah

Moon Over Parador

⭐ 6.3 Role: Aaron Levinsky

Nuts

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville

⭐ 6.5 Role: Det. Chris Lecce

Stakeout

⭐ 6.5 Role: Self

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

⭐ 6.3 Role: Bill 'BB' Babowsky

Tin Men

⭐ 6.0 Role: Jedediah

Citizen Steve

⭐ 7.8 Role: The Writer

Stand by Me

⭐ 5.9 Role: Dave Whiteman

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Night of 100 Stars II

⭐ 4.7 Role: Joe

The Buddy System

⭐ 7.0 Role: Ken Harrison

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

⭐ 6.1 Role: Paul Dietrich

The Competition

⭐ 5.8 Role: Moses Wine

The Big Fix

⭐ 7.3 Role: Roy Neary

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

⭐ 6.9 Role: Elliot Garfield

The Goodbye Girl

⭐ 6.1 Role: Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)

The Sentinel

⭐ 10.0 Role: Self

The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play

⭐ 5.1 Role: Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

Victory at Entebbe

⭐ 7.7 Role: Hooper

Jaws

⭐ 5.7 Role: Boy Wonder

Inserts

⭐ 0 Role: Self

New England Our Way

⭐ 3.0 Role: Clavius

The Second Coming of Suzanne

⭐ 6.1 Role: Duddy

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

⭐ 10.0 Role: Greg

Me

⭐ 7.0 Role: Curt Henderson

American Graffiti

⭐ 6.6 Role: Baby Face Nelson

Dillinger

⭐ 6.7 Role: Yossarian

Catch-22

⭐ 8.0 Role: Tommy Owen

The Shadow of a Gunman

⭐ 7.5 Role: Morris Gap

Two for the Money

⭐ 5.9 Role: Harold Webster

Hello Down There

⭐ 7.0 Role: Terry

The Young Runaways

⭐ 6.0 Role: Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)

Valley of the Dolls

⭐ 7.6 Role: Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

The Graduate