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