Acting
Richard Dreyfuss
EN cinema · 138 credits
Born
29 October 1947 (age 79)
Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Richard Stephen Dreyfuss
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
Filmography
Killing Winston Jones
as Winston Jones
Waltzing with Brando
as Seymour Kraft
Into the Deep
as Seamus
Sweetwater
as Maurice Podoloff
Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
as Narrator (voice)
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar, Executive Producer
Save Christmas
as Santa
Every Last One of Them
as Murphy, Executive Producer
Crime Story
as Ben Myers, Executive Producer
Audrey
as Self - Actor
The Last Laugh
as Buddy Green
Polar
as Porter
Daughter of the Wolf
as Father
Astronaut
as Angus, Executive Producer
Book Club
as George
Bayou Caviar
as Yuri
Asher
as Avi
Spielberg
as Self
Zipper
as George Hiller
Squatters
as David Silverman
Caserta Palace Dream
as Luigi Vanvitelli
Very Good Girls
as Danny
Paranoia
as Frank Cassidy
Cas & Dylan
as Dr. Cas Pepper
Milius
as Self
Casting By
as Self
Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd
RED
as Alexander Dunning
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
My Life in Ruins
as Irv Gideon
Leaves of Grass
as Pug Rothbaum
The Lightkeepers
as Seth
W.
as Dick Cheney
America Betrayed
as Narrator
Ocean of Fear
as Narrator
Spielberg on Spielberg
as Self (archive footage)
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
The Dish on Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self - Actor
Silver City
as Chuck Raven
Coast to Coast
as Barnaby Pierce
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
as Theodore Roosevelt
The Johnstown Flood
as narrator
Manassas: End of Innocence
as Narrator
Who Is Cletis Tout?
as Micah Donnelly
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
as Antonio Bolivar
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Alexander Haig
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
In Search of Peace
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Fail Safe
as President
The Crew
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Lansky
as Meyer Lansky
Krippendorf's Tribe
as Prof. Krippendorf
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Sam Vigoda
Oliver Twist
as Fagin, Co-Producer
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
as Narrator (voice)
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)
Mad Dog Time
as Vic
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Glenn Holland
The American President
as Senator Rumson
The Last Word
as Larry
Silent Fall
as Dr. Jake Rainer
Quiz Show
Executive Producer
Another Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
Lost in Yonkers
as Louie Kurnitz
Lincoln
1992
Lincoln
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin
Once Around
as Sam Sharpe, Co-Producer
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as The Player
Prisoner of Honor
as Col. Picquart
Postcards from the Edge
as Dr. Frankenthal
Always
as Pete Sandich
Let It Ride
as Jay Trotter
Moon Over Parador
as Jack Noah
Tin Men
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
Citizen Steve
as Jedediah
Nuts
as Aaron Levinsky
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
as Self, Writer, Producer
Stand by Me
as The Writer
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
as Dave Whiteman
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
as Ken Harrison
The Competition
as Paul Dietrich
The Big Fix
as Moses Wine, Producer
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
The Goodbye Girl
as Elliot Garfield
The Sentinel
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
Victory at Entebbe
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Jaws
as Hooper
Inserts
as Boy Wonder
The Second Coming of Suzanne
as Clavius
American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson
Catch-22
as Yossarian
Dillinger
as Baby Face Nelson
Me
as Greg
The Shadow of a Gunman
as Tommy Owen
Two for the Money
as Morris Gap
Hello Down There
as Harold Webster
The Young Runaways
as Terry
The Graduate
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Valley of the Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)