Richard Dreyfuss
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is 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.
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- Born:
- Oct 29, 1947 In Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 117
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Waltzing With Brando
- Latest Project:
- Movie Sweetwater 2023-04-14
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Waltzing With Brando | Seymour Kraft | 2025 |
| Movie | Sweetwater | Maurice Podoloff | 2023-04-14 |
| Movie | Save Christmas | Santa | 2022-12-01 |
| Movie | Murder at Yellowstone City | Edgar | 2022-06-24 |
| Movie | Crime Story | Ben Myers | 2021-08-13 |
| Movie | Audrey | Self - Actor | 2020-11-30 |
| Movie | The Last Laugh | Buddy Green | 2019-01-11 |
| Movie | Daughter of the Wolf | Father | 2019-06-14 |
| Movie | Polar | Porter | 2019-01-25 |
| Movie | Astronaut | Angus | 2019-07-26 |
| Movie | Book Club | George | 2018-05-18 |
| Movie | Bayou Caviar | Yuri | 2018-10-05 |
| Movie | Asher | Avi | 2018-12-07 |
| Series | Shots Fired | Arlen Cox | 2017-03-22 |
| Movie | Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
| Movie | Third Party President: Citizen Rocky | Self | 2016-09-19 |
| Series | Madoff | Bernie Madoff | 2016-02-03 |
| Movie | Zipper | George Hiller | 2015-08-28 |
| Series | Your Family or Mine | Louis | 2015-04-08 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Caserta Palace Dream | Luigi Vanvitelli | 2014-03-18 |
| Movie | Squatters | David Silverman | 2014-05-14 |
| Movie | Very Good Girls | Danny | 2013-01-22 |
| Movie | Milius | Self | 2013-03-09 |
| Movie | Paranoia | Frank Cassidy | 2013-08-14 |
| Movie | Cas & Dylan | Dr. Cas Pepper | 2013-09-17 |
| Movie | Casting By | Self | 2012-11-01 |
| Series | Coma | Professor Hillside | 2012-09-03 |
| Movie | Jaws: The Inside Story | Self | 2010-06-16 |
| Movie | RED | Alexander Dunning | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | Piranha 3D | Matthew Boyd | 2010-08-20 |
| Movie | The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws" | Self | 2009-05-02 |
| Movie | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self | 2009-01-16 |
| Movie | Waking Sleeping Beauty | David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage) | 2009-09-05 |
| Movie | The Lightkeepers | Seth | 2009-12-18 |
| Movie | Leaves of Grass | Pug Rothbaum | 2009-09-13 |
| Movie | My Life in Ruins | Irv Gideon | 2009-06-05 |
| Movie | W. | Dick Cheney | 2008-10-17 |
| Movie | America Betrayed | Narrator | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition | Self | 2007-06-20 |
| Series | Tin Man | Mystic Man | 2007-12-02 |
| Movie | Poseidon | Richard Nelson | 2006-05-10 |
| Movie | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Self | 2006-06-13 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Self - Actor | 2005-04-05 |
| Movie | Coast to Coast | Barnaby Pierce | 2004-04-03 |
| Movie | Silver City | Chuck Raven | 2004-09-17 |
| Movie | A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope | Narrator | 2004-09-14 |
| Movie | Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion | Theodore Roosevelt | 2003-05-27 |
| Movie | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self | 2003-03-09 |
| Movie | The John Garfield Story | Self | 2003-02-03 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' | Self | 2001-05-08 |
| Movie | Who Is Cletis Tout? | Micah Donnelly | 2001-09-12 |
| Movie | The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | 2001-03-07 | |
| Series | The Education of Max Bickford | Max Bickford | 2001-09-23 |
| Movie | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig | 2001-12-09 |
| Movie | In Search of Peace | Yitzhak Rabin (voice) | 2001-09-21 |
| Movie | R2-D2: Beneath the Dome | Self | 2001-11-25 |
| Movie | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys | Scoop the Snowman (voice) | 2001-10-14 |
| Movie | Fail Safe | President | 2000-04-09 |
| Movie | The Crew | Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator | 2000-08-21 |
| Movie | Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me | Self | 2000-08-29 |
| Movie | Lansky | Meyer Lansky | 1999-02-27 |
| Movie | Krippendorf's Tribe | Prof. Krippendorf | 1998-02-27 |
| Movie | The Making of 'American Graffiti' | Self | 1998-09-15 |
| Movie | Frank Capra's American Dream | Self | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | In the Teeth of Jaws | Self | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon | Narrator (voice) | 1997-06-22 |
| Movie | Oliver Twist | Fagin | 1997-05-15 |
| Movie | Night Falls on Manhattan | Sam Vigoda | 1997-03-21 |
| Movie | Mad Dog Time | Vic | 1996-11-08 |
| Movie | James and the Giant Peach | Centipede (voice) | 1996-04-12 |
| Movie | The Last Word | Larry | 1995-08-27 |
| Movie | Mr. Holland's Opus | Glenn Holland | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Jaws' | Self | 1995-11-28 |
| Movie | The American President | Senator Rumson | 1995-11-17 |
| Movie | Silent Fall | Dr. Jake Rainer | 1994-10-28 |
| Movie | It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | Self | 1994-10-25 |
| Movie | Another Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | 1993-07-22 |
| Movie | Lost in Yonkers | Louie Kurnitz | 1993-05-14 |
| Movie | Lincoln | William Tecumsah Sherman (voice) | 1992-12-26 |
| Movie | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | The Player | 1991-02-08 |
| Movie | Once Around | Sam Sharpe | 1991-01-18 |
| Movie | What About Bob? | Dr. Leo Marvin | 1991-05-17 |
| Movie | Prisoner of Honor | Col. Picquart | 1991-11-02 |
| Movie | Postcards from the Edge | Dr. Frankenthal | 1990-09-14 |
| Movie | Let It Ride | Jay Trotter | 1989-08-18 |
| Movie | Always | Pete Sandich | 1989-12-22 |
| Movie | Moon Over Parador | Jack Noah | 1988-09-09 |
| Movie | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self | 1988-11-22 |
| Movie | Citizen Steve | Jedediah | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Nuts | Aaron Levinsky | 1987-11-20 |
| Movie | Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | 1987-08-05 |
| Movie | Tin Men | Bill 'BB' Babowsky | 1987-03-06 |
| Movie | Stand by Me | The Writer | 1986-08-08 |
| Movie | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Dave Whiteman | 1986-01-31 |
| Movie | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | 1985-03-10 |
| Movie | The Buddy System | Joe | 1984-05-04 |
| Movie | Whose Life Is It Anyway? | Ken Harrison | 1981-12-02 |
| Movie | The Competition | Paul Dietrich | 1980-12-03 |
| Movie | The Big Fix | Moses Wine | 1978-10-06 |
| Movie | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Roy Neary | 1977-12-14 |
| Movie | The Sentinel | Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited) | 1977-01-07 |
| Movie | The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield | 1977-11-27 |
| Movie | Victory at Entebbe | Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu | 1976-12-13 |
| Movie | Jaws | Hooper | 1975-06-20 |
| Movie | Inserts | Boy Wonder | 1975-02-20 |
| Movie | The Second Coming of Suzanne | Clavius | 1974-10-04 |
| Movie | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Duddy | 1974-04-11 |
| Movie | American Graffiti | Curt Henderson | 1973-08-11 |
| Movie | Dillinger | Baby Face Nelson | 1973-07-20 |
| Movie | Two for the Money | Morris Gap | 1972-02-26 |
| Movie | The Shadow of a Gunman | Tommy Owen | 1972-12-04 |
| Movie | Hello Down There | Harold Webster | 1969-01-01 |
| Movie | The Young Runaways | Terry | 1968-09-11 |
| Movie | Valley of the Dolls | Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited) | 1967-12-27 |
| Movie | The Graduate | Boarding House Resident (uncredited) | 1967-12-21 |
| Series | Karen | David Rowe III | 1964-10-05 |