Richard Dreyfuss

Actor

Born October 29, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Filmography

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War

Self

Killing Winston Jones

Winston Jones

Ocean of Fear

Narrator (voice)

Waltzing with Brando

Seymour Kraft

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

Self

Into the Deep

Seamus

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life

Self

Sweetwater

Maurice Podoloff

Commitment to Life

Self (archive footage)

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony

Narrator (voice)

Save Christmas

Santa

Murder at Yellowstone City

Edgar

Every Last One of Them

Murphy

Crime Story

Ben Myers

Audrey

Self - Actor

Stars in the House

Self

Astronaut

Angus

Daughter of the Wolf

Father

Polar

Porter

The Last Laugh

Buddy Green

Asher

Avi

Bayou Caviar

Yuri

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Self

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky

Self

Book Club

George

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

Self - Guest

Spielberg

Self

Shots Fired

Arlen Cox

Madoff

Bernie Madoff

Zipper

George Hiller

Your Family or Mine

Louis

Squatters

David Silverman

The Real History of Science Fiction

Self

Caserta Palace Dream

Luigi Vanvitelli

Cas & Dylan

Dr. Cas Pepper

Paranoia

Frank Cassidy

Milius

Self

Very Good Girls

Danny

Casting By

Self

Coma

Professor Hillside

The Two Million Year Old Boy

Narrator

Bubble Guppies

Captain Acrab

RED

Alexander Dunning

Piranha 3D

Matthew Boyd

Jaws: The Inside Story

Self

Parenthood

Gilliam T. Blount

The Lightkeepers

Seth

Leaves of Grass

Pug Rothbaum

Waking Sleeping Beauty

David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

My Life in Ruins

Irv Gideon

The Shark Is Still Working

Self

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Self

American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist

Self

Dick Cheney

America Betrayed

Narrator

Tin Man

Mystic Man

Ocean of Fear

Narrator

Spielberg on Spielberg

Self (archive footage)

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

Self

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

Self

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Self

The Dish on Dolls

Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)

Poseidon

Richard Nelson

The Reichen Show

Self

Weeds

Warren Schiff

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

Self - Actor

Silver City

Chuck Raven

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

Narrator

Coast to Coast

Barnaby Pierce

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion

Theodore Roosevelt

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Self

The John Garfield Story

Self

The Johnstown Flood

narrator

Manassas: End of Innocence

Narrator

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Alexander Haig

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Self

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys

Scoop the Snowman (voice)

The Education of Max Bickford

Max Bickford

In Search of Peace

Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

Who Is Cletis Tout?

Micah Donnelly

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

Self

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Antonio Bolivar

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me

Self

The Crew

Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

Fail Safe

President

Lansky

Meyer Lansky

Family Guy

Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

Narrator

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

Self

Krippendorf's Tribe

Prof. Krippendorf

The Wonderful World of Disney

The View

Self

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

Narrator (voice)

Frank Capra's American Dream

Self

Oliver Twist

Fagin

HARDtalk

Night Falls on Manhattan

Sam Vigoda

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady

Self

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

Self

In the Teeth of Jaws

Self

Mad Dog Time

Vic

The Daily Show

Self

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Self - Guest

The Universal Story

Self

James and the Giant Peach

Centipede (voice)

Mr. Holland's Opus

Glenn Holland

The Making of 'Jaws'

Self

The American President

Senator Rumson

The Frank Skinner Show

Self

The Last Word

Larry

Silent Fall

Dr. Jake Rainer

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

Self

Quiz Show

Inside the Actors Studio

Self

100 Years at the Movies

Self (archive footage)

Another Stakeout

Det. Chris Lecce

Lost in Yonkers

Louie Kurnitz

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

Narrator (voice)

Prisoner of Honor

Col. Picquart

What About Bob?

Dr. Leo Marvin

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

The Player

Once Around

Sam Sharpe

Postcards from the Edge

Dr. Frankenthal

Always

Pete Sandich

Let It Ride

Jay Trotter

Moon Over Parador

Jack Noah

Nuts

Aaron Levinsky

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville

Self

Stakeout

Det. Chris Lecce

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Self

Tin Men

Bill 'BB' Babowsky

Citizen Steve

Jedediah

Stand by Me

The Writer

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Dave Whiteman

Night of 100 Stars II

Self

The Buddy System

Joe

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Ken Harrison

The Competition

Paul Dietrich

The Big Fix

Moses Wine

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Roy Neary

The Goodbye Girl

Elliot Garfield

The Sentinel

Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)

Victory at Entebbe

Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

Jaws

Hooper

Inserts

Boy Wonder

New England Our Way

Self

The Second Coming of Suzanne

Clavius

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Duddy

Greg

American Graffiti

Curt Henderson

Dillinger

Baby Face Nelson

Catch-22

Yossarian

A Touch of Grace

The Shadow of a Gunman

Tommy Owen

Two for the Money

Morris Gap

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

Tony Injijikian

Great Performances

Self

The New People

Room 222

Hello Down There

Harold Webster

The Mod Squad

The Young Runaways

Terry

Valley of the Dolls

Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)

The Graduate

Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

Judd, for the Defense

The Second Hundred Years

Ben Jr.

Occasional Wife

Felony Squad

Hey Landlord!

That Girl

Gidget

The Big Valley

Lud

Karen

David Rowe III

Bewitched

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

Ben Casey

Gunsmoke

Gearshon Gorofsky

The Oscars

Self