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. 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.
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Movies (40)
Waltzing with Brando
as Seymour Kraft
2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self
2025
Into the Deep
as Seamus
2025
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
as Self
2023
Sweetwater
as Maurice Podoloff
2023
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
as Narrator (voice)
2022
Save Christmas
as Santa
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar
2022
Every Last One of Them
as Murphy
2021
Crime Story
as Ben Myers
2021
Audrey
as Self - Actor
2020
Astronaut
as Angus
2019
Daughter of the Wolf
as Father
2019
Polar
as Porter
2019
The Last Laugh
as Buddy Green
2019
Asher
as Avi
2018
Bayou Caviar
as Yuri
2018
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
as Self
2018
Book Club
as George
2018
Spielberg
as Self
2017
Zipper
as George Hiller
2015
Squatters
as David Silverman
2014
Caserta Palace Dream
as Luigi Vanvitelli
2014
Cas & Dylan
as Dr. Cas Pepper
2013
Paranoia
as Frank Cassidy
2013
Milius
as Self
2013
Very Good Girls
as Danny
2013
Casting By
as Self
2012
The Two Million Year Old Boy
as Narrator
2011
RED
as Alexander Dunning
2010
Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd
2010
Jaws: The Inside Story
as Self
2010
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
as Self
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self
2009
W.
as Dick Cheney
2008
America Betrayed
as Narrator
2008
TV Shows (10)
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
as Self
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest
2018
Shots Fired
as Arlen Cox
2017
Madoff
as Bernie Madoff
2016
Your Family or Mine
as Louis
2015
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Self
2014
Coma
as Professor Hillside
2012
Bubble Guppies
as Captain Acrab
2011
Parenthood
as Gilliam T. Blount
2010