Acting · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · Born October 29, 1947
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.
MovieWaltzing with Brando
2025
as Seymour Kraft
MovieJaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
as Self
MovieInto the Deep
2025
as Seamus
MovieElizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
as Self
MovieSweetwater
2023
as Maurice Podoloff
MovieCommitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
MovieNazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
as Narrator (voice)
MovieSave Christmas
2022
as Santa
MovieMurder at Yellowstone City
2022
as Edgar
MovieEvery Last One of Them
2021
as Murphy
MovieCrime Story
2021
as Ben Myers
MovieAudrey
2020
as Self - Actor
TVStars in the House
2020
as Self
MovieAstronaut
2019
as Angus
MovieDaughter of the Wolf
2019
as Father
MoviePolar
2019
as Porter
MovieThe Last Laugh
2019
as Buddy Green
MovieAsher
2018
as Avi
MovieBayou Caviar
2018
as Yuri
TVFiring Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
as Self
MovieThird Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018
as Self
MovieBook Club
2018
as George
TVThe Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
as Self - Guest
MovieSpielberg
2017
as Self
TVShots Fired
2017
as Arlen Cox
TVMadoff
2016
as Bernie Madoff
MovieZipper
2015
as George Hiller
TVYour Family or Mine
2015
as Louis
MovieSquatters
2014
as David Silverman
TVThe Real History of Science Fiction
2014
as Self
MovieCaserta Palace Dream
2014
as Luigi Vanvitelli
MovieCas & Dylan
2013
as Dr. Cas Pepper
MovieParanoia
2013
as Frank Cassidy
MovieMilius
2013
as Self
MovieVery Good Girls
2013
as Danny
MovieCasting By
2012
as Self
TVComa
2012
as Professor Hillside
MovieThe Two Million Year Old Boy
2011
as Narrator
TVBubble Guppies
2011
as Captain Acrab
MovieRED
2010
as Alexander Dunning
MoviePiranha 3D
2010
as Matthew Boyd
MovieJaws: The Inside Story
2010
as Self
TVParenthood
2010
as Gilliam T. Blount
MovieThe Lightkeepers
2009
as Seth
MovieLeaves of Grass
2009
as Pug Rothbaum
MovieWaking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
MovieMy Life in Ruins
2009
as Irv Gideon
MovieThe Shark Is Still Working
2009
as Self
MovieI Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
as Self
MovieAmerican Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
as Self
MovieW.
2008
as Dick Cheney
MovieAmerica Betrayed
2008
as Narrator
TVTin Man
2007
as Mystic Man
MovieOcean of Fear
2007
as Narrator
MovieSpielberg on Spielberg
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MovieAFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
as Self
MovieThe Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
as Self
MovieBoffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
as Self
MovieThe Dish on Dolls
2006
as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
MoviePoseidon
2006
as Richard Nelson
The Reichen Show
2005
as Self
TVWeeds
2005
as Warren Schiff
MovieThe Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Self - Actor
MovieSilver City
2004
as Chuck Raven
MovieA Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
as Narrator
MovieCoast to Coast
2004
as Barnaby Pierce
MovieTeddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003
as Theodore Roosevelt
MovieEasy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
as Self
MovieThe John Garfield Story
2003
as Self
MovieThe Johnstown Flood
2003
as narrator
MovieManassas: End of Innocence
2002
as Narrator
MovieThe Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
as Alexander Haig
MovieR2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
as Self
MovieRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
TVThe Education of Max Bickford
2001
as Max Bickford
MovieIn Search of Peace
2001
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
MovieWho Is Cletis Tout?
2001
as Micah Donnelly
MovieThe Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
as Self
MovieThe Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
as Antonio Bolivar
MovieWalking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000
as Self
MovieThe Crew
2000
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
MovieFail Safe
2000
as President
Where Are They Now?
1999
as Self
MovieLansky
1999
as Meyer Lansky
TVFamily Guy
1999
as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
MovieLost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998
as Narrator
MovieThe Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
as Self
MovieKrippendorf's Tribe
1998
as Prof. Krippendorf
The Entertainment Biz
1998
as Self
TVThe Wonderful World of Disney
1997
TVThe View
1997
as Self
MovieThe Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
as Narrator (voice)
MovieFrank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
MovieOliver Twist
1997
as Fagin
TVHARDtalk
1997
MovieNight Falls on Manhattan
1997
as Sam Vigoda
MovieAudrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997
as Self
MovieHenry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
as Self
MovieIn the Teeth of Jaws
1997
as Self
MovieMad Dog Time
1996
as Vic
TVThe Daily Show
1996
as Self
TVThe Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
MovieThe Universal Story
1996
as Self
MovieJames and the Giant Peach
1996
as Centipede (voice)
MovieMr. Holland's Opus
1995
as Glenn Holland
MovieThe Making of 'Jaws'
1995
as Self
MovieThe American President
1995
as Senator Rumson
TVThe Frank Skinner Show
1995
as Self
MovieThe Last Word
1995
as Larry
MovieSilent Fall
1994
as Dr. Jake Rainer
MovieIt's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
as Self
TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
MovieAnother Stakeout
1993
as Det. Chris Lecce
MovieLost in Yonkers
1993
as Louie Kurnitz
Lincoln
1992
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
TVThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
TVShelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
as Narrator (voice)
MoviePrisoner of Honor
1991
as Col. Picquart
MovieWhat About Bob?
1991
as Dr. Leo Marvin
MovieRosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
as The Player
MovieOnce Around
1991
as Sam Sharpe
MoviePostcards from the Edge
1990
as Dr. Frankenthal
American Chronicles
1990
as narrator
MovieAlways
1989
as Pete Sandich
MovieLet It Ride
1989
as Jay Trotter
MovieMoon Over Parador
1988
as Jack Noah
MovieNuts
1987
as Aaron Levinsky
MovieFunny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
as Self
MovieStakeout
1987
as Det. Chris Lecce
MovieJames Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self
MovieTin Men
1987
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
MovieCitizen Steve
1987
as Jedediah
MovieStand by Me
1986
as The Writer
MovieDown and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
as Dave Whiteman
MovieNight of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
MovieThe Buddy System
1984
as Joe
MovieWhose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
as Ken Harrison
MovieThe Competition
1980
as Paul Dietrich
MovieThe Big Fix
1978
as Moses Wine
MovieClose Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
as Roy Neary
MovieThe Goodbye Girl
1977
as Elliot Garfield
MovieThe Sentinel
1977
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977
as Self
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
MovieVictory at Entebbe
1976
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
TVSaturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Host
MovieJaws
1975
as Hooper
MovieInserts
1975
as Boy Wonder
MovieNew England Our Way
1974
as Self
MovieThe Second Coming of Suzanne
1974
as Clavius
MovieThe Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
as Duddy
MovieMe
1973
as Greg
MovieAmerican Graffiti
1973
as Curt Henderson
MovieDillinger
1973
as Baby Face Nelson
MovieCatch-22
1973
as Yossarian
TVA Touch of Grace
1973
MovieThe Shadow of a Gunman
1972
as Tommy Owen
MovieTwo for the Money
1972
as Morris Gap
TVThe New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971
as Tony Injijikian
TVGreat Performances
1971
as Self
Treffpunkte
1970
as Self
TVThe New People
1969
TVRoom 222
1969
MovieHello Down There
1969
as Harold Webster
TVThe Mod Squad
1968
MovieThe Young Runaways
1968
as Terry
MovieValley of the Dolls
1967
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
MovieThe Graduate
1967
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
TVJudd, for the Defense
1967
TVThe Second Hundred Years
1967
as Ben Jr.
TVOccasional Wife
1966
TVFelony Squad
1966
TVHey Landlord!
1966
TVThat Girl
1966
TVGidget
1965
TVThe Big Valley
1965
as Lud
TVKaren
1964
as David Rowe III
TVBewitched
1964
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
TVBen Casey
1961
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Gearshon Gorofsky
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
MovieI Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
as Self
MovieKilling Winston Jones
as Winston Jones
TVOcean of Fear
as Narrator (voice)
Happiness Isn't Everything
as Jerry Hamburger
