Richard Dreyfuss

Biography

Richard Dreyfuss 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

The Writer

Stand by Me

Richard Nelson

Poseidon

Hooper

Jaws

Glenn Holland

Mr. Holland's Opus

Narrator (voice)

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony

Dick Cheney

W.

Centipede (voice)

James and the Giant Peach

Curt Henderson

American Graffiti

Roy Neary

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Dr. Leo Marvin

What About Bob?

Self

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

Bill 'BB' Babowsky

Tin Men

Det. Chris Lecce

Stakeout

Pete Sandich

Always

Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

Victory at Entebbe

President

Fail Safe

Irv Gideon

My Life in Ruins

Yossarian

Catch-22

Dr. Frankenthal

Postcards from the Edge

Prof. Krippendorf

Krippendorf's Tribe

Seymour Kraft

Waltzing with Brando

Ken Harrison

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Boy Wonder

Inserts

Det. Chris Lecce

Another Stakeout

Senator Rumson

The American President

Micah Donnelly

Who Is Cletis Tout?

Pug Rothbaum

Leaves of Grass

Jack Noah

Moon Over Parador

Dave Whiteman

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

Jedediah

Citizen Steve

Louie Kurnitz

Lost in Yonkers

Baby Face Nelson

Dillinger

Aaron Levinsky

Nuts

Paul Dietrich

The Competition

Self

The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'

Moses Wine

The Big Fix

Harold Webster

Hello Down There

Duddy

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Elliot Garfield

The Goodbye Girl

Matthew Boyd

Piranha 3D

Joe

The Buddy System

Sam Vigoda

Night Falls on Manhattan

Alexander Dunning

RED

Vic

Mad Dog Time

Sam Sharpe

Once Around

Self

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

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Fagin

Oliver Twist

Dr. Jake Rainer

Silent Fall

Self

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life

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

The Sentinel

Chuck Raven

Silver City

The Player

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Seth

The Lightkeepers

Alexander Haig

The Day Reagan Was Shot

Jay Trotter

Let It Ride

Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

The Crew

Danny

Very Good Girls

Narrator (voice)

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

Meyer Lansky

Lansky

Self

The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"

Self

Frank Capra's American Dream

Self - Actor

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

Theodore Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion

Self

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me

Frank Cassidy

Paranoia

Narrator

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

Self

In the Teeth of Jaws

Dr. Cas Pepper

Cas & Dylan

Narrator

The Two Million Year Old Boy

Edgar

Murder at Yellowstone City

Col. Picquart

Prisoner of Honor

Maurice Podoloff

Sweetwater

Terry

The Young Runaways

Clavius

The Second Coming of Suzanne

David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

Waking Sleeping Beauty

David Silverman

Squatters

Barnaby Pierce

Coast to Coast

Self

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady

Tommy Owen

The Shadow of a Gunman

Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

The Graduate

Self

The Making of 'Jaws'

Self - Actor

Audrey

Larry

The Last Word

George Hiller

Zipper

Self

Milius

Greg

Me

Luigi Vanvitelli

Caserta Palace Dream

Santa

Save Christmas

The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play

Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)

Valley of the Dolls

Self

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

Self

Night of 100 Stars II

Self

Jaws: The Inside Story

Self

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War

Narrator

America Betrayed

Self

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

Self

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky

Self

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

Narrator

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

Self

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Self

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

Self

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

Self

Spielberg

George

Book Club

Yuri

Bayou Caviar

Avi

Asher

Self

The Universal Story

Narrator

Ocean of Fear

Buddy Green

The Last Laugh

Porter

Polar

Father

Daughter of the Wolf

Angus

Astronaut

Self

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Self (archive footage)

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self

New England Our Way

Scoop the Snowman (voice)

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

narrator

The Johnstown Flood

Self

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

In Search of Peace

Self

The John Garfield Story

Self

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

Narrator

Manassas: End of Innocence

Murphy

Every Last One of Them

Ben Myers

Crime Story

Morris Gap

Two for the Money

Self

Casting By

William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)

Lincoln

Self

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Seamus

Into the Deep

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

130

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-10-29

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss