An American actor best known for starring in a number of 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. Dreyfuss 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Dreyfuss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
| Birth Location | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947-10-29 |
Movies
2023
Sweetwater
as Maurice Podoloff
2023
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
as Narrator (voice)
2022
Save Christmas
as Santa
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar
2022
Every Last One of Them
as Murphy
2021
Crime Story
as Ben Myers
2021
Audrey
as Self - Actor
2020
Astronaut
as Angus
2019
Daughter of the Wolf
as Father
2019
Polar
as Porter
2019
The Last Laugh
as Buddy Green
2019
Asher
as Avi
2018
Bayou Caviar
as Yuri
2018
Book Club
as George
2018
Spielberg
as Self
2017
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
as himself
2016
Zipper
as George Hiller
2015
Squatters
as David Silverman
2014
Caserta Palace Dream
as Luigi Vanvitelli
2014
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Cas & Dylan
as Dr. Cas Pepper
2013
Paranoia
as Frank Cassidy
2013
Milius
as Self
2013
Very Good Girls
as Danny
2013
Casting By
as Self
2012
The Two Million Year Old Boy
as Narrator
2012
RED
as Alexander Dunning
2010
Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd
2010
Jaws: The Inside Story
as Self
2010
The Lightkeepers
as Seth
2009
Leaves of Grass
as Pug Rothbaum
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
2009
My Life in Ruins
as Irv Gideon
2009
2009
W.
as Dick Cheney
2008
America Betrayed
as Narrator
2008
Ocean of Fear
as Narrator
2007
2006
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
2006
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self - Actor
2005
Silver City
as Chuck Raven
2004
2004
Coast to Coast
as Barnaby Pierce
2004
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
as Theodore Roosevelt
2003
The John Garfield Story
as Self
2003
The Johnstown Flood
as narrator
2003
Manassas: End of Innocence
as Narrator
2002
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Alexander Haig
2001
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
as Self
2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
2001
In Search of Peace
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?
as Micah Donnelly
2001
2001
2000
The Crew
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
2000
Fail Safe
as President
2000
Lansky
as Meyer Lansky
1999
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
as Narrator
1998
1998
Krippendorf's Tribe
as Prof. Krippendorf
1998
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
as Narrator (voice)
1997
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
1997
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
as Self
1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Sam Vigoda
1997
1997
In the Teeth of Jaws
as Self
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self
1997
Mad Dog Time
as Vic
1996
The Universal Story
as Himself
1996
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)
1996
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Glenn Holland
1995
The Making of 'Jaws'
as Self
1995
The American President
as Senator Rumson
1995
The Last Word
as Larry
1995
Silent Fall
as Dr. Jake Rainer
1994
1994
Another Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
1993
Lost in Yonkers
as Louie Kurnitz
1993
Lincoln
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
1992
Prisoner of Honor
as Col. Picquart
1991
What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin
1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as The Player
1991
Once Around
as Sam Sharpe
1991
Postcards from the Edge
as Doctor Frankenthal
1990
Always
as Pete Sandich
1989
Let It Ride
as Jay Trotter
1989
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self
1988
Moon Over Parador
as Jack Noah
1988
Nuts
as Aaron Levinsky
1987
Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
1987
Tin Men
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
1987
Citizen Steve
as Jedediah
1987
Stand by Me
as The Writer
1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
as Dave Whiteman
1986
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1985
The Buddy System
as Joe
1984
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
as Ken Harrison
1981
The Competition
as Paul Dietrich
1980
The Big Fix
as Moses Wine
1978
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
1977
The Goodbye Girl
as Elliot Garfield
1977
The Sentinel
as Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited)
1977
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
as Self
1977
Victory at Entebbe
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
1976
Jaws
as Matt Hooper
1975
Inserts
as Boy Wonder
1975
New England Our Way
as Himself
1974
The Second Coming of Suzanne
as Clavius
1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
as Duddy
1974
Me
as Greg
1973
American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson
1973
Dillinger
as Baby Face Nelson
1973
Catch-22
as Yossarian
1973
The Shadow of a Gunman
as Tommy Owen
1972
Two for the Money
as Morris Gap
1972
Hello Down There
as Harold Webster
1969
The Young Runaways
as Terry
1968
Valley of the Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
1967
The Graduate
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
1967
Waltzing With Brando
as Seymour Kraft
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Movies
Murder at Yellowstone City
Executive Producer
2022
Every Last One of Them
Executive Producer
2021
Astronaut
Executive Producer
2019
Oliver Twist
Co-Producer
1997
Present Tense, Past Perfect
Director
1995
Quiz Show
Executive Producer
1994
Once Around
Co-Producer
1991
The Big Fix
Producer
1978
