Richard Dreyfuss
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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.
Known for
Credits
Jaws (1975)
as Hooper
Poseidon (2006)
as Richard Nelson
Stand by Me (1986)
as The Writer
RED (2010)
as Alexander Dunning
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
as Roy Neary
Polar (2019)
as Porter
The Graduate (1967)
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Piranha 3D (2010)
as Matthew Boyd
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
as Centipede (voice)
Lansky (1999)
as Meyer Lansky
Audrey (2020)
as Self - Actor
Zipper (2015)
as George Hiller
American Graffiti (1973)
as Curt Henderson
The Crew (2000)
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Inserts (1975)
as Boy Wonder
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
as Glenn Holland
Tin Men (1987)
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Citizen Steve (1987)
as Jedediah
Catch-22 (1973)
as Yossarian
Paranoia (2013)
as Frank Cassidy
Sweetwater (2023)
as Maurice Podoloff
Let It Ride (1989)
as Jay Trotter
Into the Deep (2025)
as Seamus
Daughter of the Wolf (2019)
as Father
Always (1989)
as Pete Sandich
Book Club (2018)
as George
Stakeout (1987)
as Det. Chris Lecce
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)
as Self
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
as Elliot Garfield
Me (1973)
as Greg
W. (2008)
as Dick Cheney
My Life in Ruins (2009)
as Irv Gideon
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001)
as Self
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. (1986)
Actor
What About Bob? (1991)
as Dr. Leo Marvin
Murder at Yellowstone City (2022)
as Edgar
The American President (1995)
as Senator Rumson
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Commitment to Life (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Another Stakeout (1993)
as Det. Chris Lecce
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
as Dr. Frankenthal
The Sentinel (1977)
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
as Dave Whiteman
Killing Winston Jones (—)
as Winston Jones
Leaves of Grass (2009)
as Pug Rothbaum
Spielberg (2017)
as Self
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (2022)
as Narrator (voice)
The Dish on Dolls (2006)
as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me (2000)
as Self
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
as The Player
Asher (2018)
as Avi
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
as Sam Vigoda
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
as Antonio Bolivar
New England Our Way (1974)
as Self
Hello Down There (1969)
as Harold Webster
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010)
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
Every Last One of Them (2021)
as Murphy
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997)
as Narrator (voice)
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist (2009)
as Self
Silent Fall (1994)
as Dr. Jake Rainer
Caserta Palace Dream (2014)
as Luigi Vanvitelli
Fail Safe (2000)
as President
Bayou Caviar (2018)
as Yuri
Very Good Girls (2013)
as Danny
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion (2003)
as Theodore Roosevelt
Ocean of Fear (2007)
as Narrator
Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
as Micah Donnelly
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
as Ken Harrison
Dillinger (1973)
as Baby Face Nelson
Squatters (2014)
as David Silverman
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (2001)
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
as Prof. Krippendorf
The Big Fix (1978)
as Moses Wine
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
as Self
Nuts (1987)
as Aaron Levinsky
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
as Self
The Johnstown Flood (2003)
as narrator
The Last Laugh (2019)
as Buddy Green
Crime Story (2021)
as Ben Myers
Moon Over Parador (1988)
as Jack Noah
Mad Dog Time (1996)
as Vic
Casting By (2012)
as Self
The Competition (1980)
as Paul Dietrich
Astronaut (2019)
as Angus
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
as Self
Silver City (2004)
as Chuck Raven
Once Around (1991)
as Sam Sharpe
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life (2023)
as Self
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
as Duddy
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self
The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
as Self - Actor
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
as Louie Kurnitz
Milius (2013)
as Self
The Making of 'American Graffiti' (1998)
as Self
Oliver Twist (1997)
as Fagin
The Shark Is Still Working (2009)
as Self
The John Garfield Story (2003)
as Self
The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
as Alexander Haig
The Making of 'Jaws' (1995)
as Self
Cas & Dylan (2013)
as Dr. Cas Pepper
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition (2007)
as Self
The Last Word (1995)
as Larry
Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)
as Self
Waltzing with Brando (2025)
as Seymour Kraft
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
as Self
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004)
as Narrator
Coast to Coast (2004)
as Barnaby Pierce
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville (1987)
as Self
In the Teeth of Jaws (1997)
as Self
The Buddy System (1984)
as Joe
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (2001)
as Self
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (1994)
as Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo (2007)
as Self
Two for the Money (1972)
as Morris Gap
The Lightkeepers (2009)
as Seth
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero (1997)
as Self
The Young Runaways (1968)
as Terry
Prisoner of Honor (1991)
as Col. Picquart
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play (1977)
Actor
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky (2018)
as Self
Jaws: The Inside Story (2010)
as Self
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War (—)
as Self
Save Christmas (2022)
as Santa
Lincoln (1992)
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady (1997)
as Self
The Shadow of a Gunman (1972)
as Tommy Owen
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' (1977)
as Self
The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974)
as Clavius
Spielberg on Spielberg (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
The Two Million Year Old Boy (2011)
as Narrator
In Search of Peace (2001)
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Manassas: End of Innocence (2002)
as Narrator
The Universal Story (1996)
as Self
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude (1998)
as Narrator
America Betrayed (2008)
as Narrator