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