Richard Dreyfuss

Acting

Richard Dreyfuss

Born
(age 79)
Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
193 titles

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. 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.

Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 191

YearTitleRole
TBA I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War Film Self
TBA Killing Winston Jones Film Winston Jones
TBA Ocean of Fear TV Narrator (voice) (6 ep)
TBA Happiness Isn't Everything TV Jerry Hamburger (1 ep)
2025 Waltzing with Brando Film Seymour Kraft
2025 Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story Film Self
2025 Into the Deep Film Seamus
2023 Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life Film Self
2023 Sweetwater Film Maurice Podoloff
2023 Commitment to Life Film Self (archive footage)
2022 Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony Film Narrator (voice)
2022 Save Christmas Film Santa
2022 Murder at Yellowstone City Film Edgar
2021 Every Last One of Them Film Murphy
2021 Crime Story Film Ben Myers
2020 Audrey Film Self - Actor
2020 Stars in the House TV Self (1 ep)
2019 Astronaut Film Angus
2019 Daughter of the Wolf Film Father
2019 Polar Film Porter
2019 The Last Laugh Film Buddy Green
2018 Asher Film Avi
2018 Bayou Caviar Film Yuri
2018 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover TV Self (1 ep)
2018 Third Party President: Citizen Rocky Film Self
2018 Book Club Film George
2018 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer TV Self - Guest (1 ep)
2017 Spielberg Film Self
2017 Shots Fired TV Arlen Cox (10 ep)
2016 Madoff TV Bernie Madoff (4 ep)
2015 Zipper Film George Hiller
2015 Your Family or Mine TV Louis (10 ep)
2014 Squatters Film David Silverman
2014 The Real History of Science Fiction TV Self (2 ep)
2014 Caserta Palace Dream Film Luigi Vanvitelli
2013 Cas & Dylan Film Dr. Cas Pepper
2013 Paranoia Film Frank Cassidy
2013 Milius Film Self
2013 Very Good Girls Film Danny
2012 Casting By Film Self
2012 Coma TV Professor Hillside (2 ep)
2011 The Two Million Year Old Boy Film Narrator
2011 Bubble Guppies TV Captain Acrab (1 ep)
2010 RED Film Alexander Dunning
2010 Piranha 3D Film Matthew Boyd
2010 Jaws: The Inside Story Film Self
2010 Waking Sleeping Beauty Film David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
2010 Parenthood TV Gilliam T. Blount (4 ep)
2009 The Lightkeepers Film Seth
2009 Leaves of Grass Film Pug Rothbaum
2009 My Life in Ruins Film Irv Gideon
2009 The Shark Is Still Working Film Self
2009 I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale Film Self
2009 American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist Film Self
2008 W. Film Dick Cheney
2008 America Betrayed Film Narrator
2007 Tin Man TV Mystic Man (3 ep)
2007 Ocean of Fear Film Narrator
2007 Spielberg on Spielberg Film Self (archive footage)
2007 AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition Film Self

Crew credits 10

YearTitleJob
2022 Murder at Yellowstone City Film Executive Producer
2021 Every Last One of Them Film Executive Producer
2021 Crime Story Film Executive Producer
2019 Astronaut Film Executive Producer
1997 Oliver Twist Film Co-Producer
1995 Present Tense, Past Perfect Film Director
1994 Quiz Show Film Executive Producer
1991 Once Around Film Co-Producer
1987 Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville Film Writer, Producer
1978 The Big Fix Film Producer
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