Richard Dreyfuss

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

179

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-10-29 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

  • Richard Stephen Dreyfuss
  • 리차드 드레이퓨즈
  • ریچارد دریفوس

Richard Dreyfuss

Biography

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. 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.

Known For

Jaws
7.7%

Jaws

Jun 20, 1975

RED
6.7%

RED

Oct 13, 2010

Stand by Me
7.9%

Stand by Me

Aug 8, 1986

Family Guy
7.4%

Family Guy

Jan 31, 1999

Family Guy
7.4%

Family Guy

Jan 31, 1999

The Graduate
7.6%

The Graduate

Dec 21, 1967

Polar
6.3%

Polar

Jan 25, 2019

Piranha 3D
5.4%

Piranha 3D

Aug 20, 2010

Poseidon
5.9%

Poseidon

May 3, 2006

American Graffiti
7.0%

American Graffiti

Aug 11, 1973

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Acting

Ocean of Fear as Narrator (voice)
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War as Self
Happiness Isn't Everything as Jerry Hamburger
2025
Into the Deep as Seamus
2024
Waltzing with Brando as Seymour Kraft
2023
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life as Self
2023
Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
2022
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
2022
Save Christmas as Santa
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
2021
Every Last One of Them as Murphy
2021
Crime Story as Ben Myers
2020
Audrey as Self - Actor
2020
Stars in the House as Self
2019
Astronaut as Angus
2019
Daughter of the Wolf as Father
2019
Polar as Porter
2019
The Last Laugh as Buddy Green
2018
Asher as Avi
2018
Bayou Caviar as Yuri
2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover as Self
2018
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky as Self
2018
Book Club as George
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer as Self - Guest
2017
Spielberg as Self
2017
Shots Fired as Arlen Cox
2016
Madoff as Bernie Madoff
2015
Zipper as George Hiller
2015
Your Family or Mine as Louis
2014
Squatters as David Silverman
2014
The Real History of Science Fiction as Self
2014
Caserta Palace Dream as Luigi Vanvitelli
2014
And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2013
Cas & Dylan as Dr. Cas Pepper
2013
Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
2013
Milius as Self
2013
Very Good Girls as Danny
2012
Casting By as Self
2012
Coma as Professor Hillside
2011
The Two Million Year Old Boy as Narrator
2011
Bubble Guppies as Captain Acrab
2010
RED as Alexander Dunning
2010
Piranha 3D as Matthew Boyd
2010
Jaws: The Inside Story as Self
2010
Parenthood as Gilliam T. Blount
2009
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
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws" as Self
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
2008
W. as Dick Cheney
2008
America Betrayed as Narrator
2007
Tin Man as Mystic Man
2007
Ocean of Fear as Narrator
2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition as Self
2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo as Self
2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
2006
Poseidon as Richard Nelson
2005
The Reichen Show as Self
2005
Weeds as Warren Schiff
2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn as Self - Actor
2004
Silver City as Chuck Raven
2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope as Narrator
2004
Coast to Coast as Barnaby Pierce
2003
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion as Theodore Roosevelt
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
2003
The John Garfield Story as Self
2003
The Johnstown Flood as narrator
2002
Manassas: End of Innocence as Narrator
2001
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
The Education of Max Bickford as Max Bickford
2001
In Search of Peace as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2001
Who Is Cletis Tout? as Micah Donnelly
2001
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' as Self
2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2000
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me as Self
2000
The Crew as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
2000
Fail Safe as President
1999
Where Are They Now? as Self
1999
Lansky as Meyer Lansky
1999
Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
1999
Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
1998
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude as Narrator
1998
The Making of 'American Graffiti' as Self
1998
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies as Self
1998
Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
1997
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
The View as Self
1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon as Narrator (voice)
1997
Oliver Twist as Fagin
1997
Night Falls on Manhattan as Sam Vigoda
1997
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady as Self
1997
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero as Self
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream as Self
1997
In the Teeth of Jaws as Self
1996
Mad Dog Time as Vic
1996
The Daily Show as Self
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
1996
The Universal Story as Self
1996
James and the Giant Peach as Centipede (voice)
1995
Mr. Holland's Opus as Glenn Holland
1995
The Making of 'Jaws' as Self
1995
The American President as Senator Rumson
1995
The Frank Skinner Show as Self
1995
The Last Word as Larry
1994
Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer
1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein as Self
1994
Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
Another Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
1993
Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz
1992
Lincoln as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (Voice)
1991
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
1990
Postcards from the Edge as Dr. Frankenthal
1989
Always as Pete Sandich
1989
Let It Ride as Jay Trotter
1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self
1988
Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
1987
Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
1987
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as Self
1987
Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
1987
Tin Men as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
1987
Citizen Steve as Jedediah
1986
Stand by Me as The Writer
1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Dave Whiteman
1985
Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1984
The Buddy System as Joe
1981
Whose Life Is It Anyway? as Ken Harrison
1980
The Competition as Paul Dietrich
1978
The Big Fix as Moses Wine
1977
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
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1976
Victory at Entebbe as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
1975
Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975
Jaws as Hooper
1975
Inserts as Boy Wonder
1974
New England Our Way as Self
1974
The Second Coming of Suzanne as Clavius
1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz as Duddy
1973
Me as Greg
1973
American Graffiti as Curt Henderson
1973
Dillinger as Baby Face Nelson
1973
Catch-22 as Yossarian
1973
A Touch of Grace
1972
The Shadow of a Gunman as Tommy Owen
1972
Two for the Money as Morris Gap
1971
Great Performances as Self
1970
Treffpunkte as Self
1969
The New People
1969
Room 222
1969
Hello Down There as Harold Webster
1968
The Mod Squad
1968
The Young Runaways as Terry
1967
Valley of the Dolls as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
1967
The Graduate as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
1967
Judd for the Defense
1966
Occasional Wife
1966
Felony Squad
1966
Hey Landlord!
1966
That Girl
1965
The Big Valley as Lud
1965
Gidget
1964
Karen as David Rowe III
1964
Bewitched
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1961
The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961
Ben Casey
1955
Gunsmoke as Gearshon Gorofsky
1953
The Oscars as Self

Directing

Production

2022
Murder at Yellowstone City as Executive Producer
2021
Every Last One of Them as Executive Producer
2021
Crime Story as Executive Producer
2019
Astronaut as Executive Producer
1997
Oliver Twist as Co-Producer
1994
Quiz Show as Executive Producer
1991
Once Around as Co-Producer
1987
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville as Producer
1978
The Big Fix as Producer
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