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.
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
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