Richard Dreyfuss
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Family Guy
Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
1999
Series
Family Guy
Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
1999
Series
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
The View
Self
1997
Series
Great Performances
Self
1971
Series
Bewitched
1964
Series
Weeds
Warren Schiff
2005
Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Series
Parenthood
Gilliam T. Blount
2010
Series
Bubble Guppies
Captain Acrab
2011
Series
The Big Valley
Lud
1965
Film
Jaws
Hooper
1975
Series
Gunsmoke
Gearshon Gorofsky
1955
Series
Room 222
1969
Series
Ben Casey
1961
Series
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Self
2018
Series
That Girl
1966
Series
Stars in the House
Self
2020
The Reichen Show
Self
2005
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
TFI Friday
1996
Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Film
Stand by Me
The Writer
1986
Series
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
2018
Series
Felony Squad
1966
Series
The Mod Squad
1968
Film
The Graduate
Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
1967
Film
RED
Alexander Dunning
2010
Series
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Series
HARDtalk
1997
Film
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary
1977
Series
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
Tony Injijikian
1971
Film
Polar
Porter
2019
Film
Piranha 3D
Matthew Boyd
2010
Series
The Frank Skinner Show
Self
1995
Where Are They Now?
Self
1999
Series
Gidget
1965
Film
Poseidon
Richard Nelson
2006
Series
The Second Hundred Years
Ben Jr.
1967
Series
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Narrator (voice)
1992
Film
James and the Giant Peach
Centipede (voice)
1996
Film
The Goodbye Girl
Elliot Garfield
1977
Series
Tin Man
Mystic Man
2007
Film
American Graffiti
Curt Henderson
1973
The Entertainment Biz
Self
1998
Series
Shots Fired
Arlen Cox
2017
Film
Valley of the Dolls
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
1967
Film
The American President
Senator Rumson
1995
Series
The Education of Max Bickford
Max Bickford
2001
Series
The Real History of Science Fiction
Self
2014
Series
Occasional Wife
1966
Series
Coma
Professor Hillside
2012
Film
What About Bob?
Dr. Leo Marvin
1991
Film
Book Club
George
2018
Film
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self
2025
Film
My Life in Ruins
Irv Gideon
2009
Series
Hey Landlord!
1966
Film
W.
Dick Cheney
2008
Series
Karen
David Rowe III
1964
Film
Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
1987
American Chronicles
narrator
1990
Series
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest
1996
Film
Mr. Holland's Opus
Glenn Holland
1995
Series
Your Family or Mine
Louis
2015
Film
Always
Pete Sandich
1989
Film
Leaves of Grass
Pug Rothbaum
2009
Film
Very Good Girls
Danny
2013
Film
Another Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
1993
Film
Into the Deep
Seamus
2025
Film
The Sentinel
Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
1977
Film
Waking Sleeping Beauty
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
2009
Film
Zipper
George Hiller
2015
Film
Paranoia
Frank Cassidy
2013
Film
Spielberg
Self
2017
Treffpunkte
Self
1970
Film
Daughter of the Wolf
Father
2019
Series
Madoff
Bernie Madoff
2016
Film
Commitment to Life
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Postcards from the Edge
Dr. Frankenthal
1990
Film
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Dave Whiteman
1986
Film
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Player
1991
Series
The New People
1969
Film
Audrey
Self - Actor
2020
Film
Moon Over Parador
Jack Noah
1988
Film
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Narrator (voice)
2022
Film
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
1985
Film
The Last Laugh
Buddy Green
2019
Film
Murder at Yellowstone City
Edgar
2022
Film
Krippendorf's Tribe
Prof. Krippendorf
1998
Film
Let It Ride
Jay Trotter
1989
Film
Dillinger
Baby Face Nelson
1973
Film
Who Is Cletis Tout?
Micah Donnelly
2001
Film
Fail Safe
President
2000
Film
Night Falls on Manhattan
Sam Vigoda
1997
Film
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
2003
Film
Victory at Entebbe
Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
1976
Film
The Crew
Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
2000
Film
Tin Men
Bill 'BB' Babowsky
1987
Film
Sweetwater
Maurice Podoloff
2023
Film
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
2009
Film
Lansky
Meyer Lansky
1999
Film
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
2006
Film
The Shark Is Still Working
Self
2009
Film
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self - Actor
2005
Film
Silent Fall
Dr. Jake Rainer
1994
Series
A Touch of Grace
1973
Film
Mad Dog Time
Vic
1996
Film
Bayou Caviar
Yuri
2018
Film
Inserts
Boy Wonder
1975
Film
Asher
Avi
2018
Happiness Isn't Everything
Jerry Hamburger
Film
Nuts
Aaron Levinsky
1987
Lincoln
William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
1992
Film
Once Around
Sam Sharpe
1991
Film
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Narrator (voice)
1997
Film
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Scoop the Snowman (voice)
2001
Series
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Film
Milius
Self
2013
Film
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Narrator
2004
Film
Casting By
Self
2012
Film
Hello Down There
Harold Webster
1969
Film
Coast to Coast
Barnaby Pierce
2004
Film
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
1987
Film
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
1997
Film
The Big Fix
Moses Wine
1978
Film
Silver City
Chuck Raven
2004
Film
Every Last One of Them
Murphy
2021
Film
Waltzing with Brando
Seymour Kraft
2025
Film
Crime Story
Ben Myers
2021
Film
Lost in Yonkers
Louie Kurnitz
1993
Film
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Self
2023
Film
Squatters
David Silverman
2014
Film
The Buddy System
Joe
1984
Series
Ocean of Fear
Narrator (voice)
Film
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Ken Harrison
1981
Film
Citizen Steve
Jedediah
1987
Film
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Duddy
1974
Film
Oliver Twist
Fagin
1997
Film
The Lightkeepers
Seth
2009
Film
The Competition
Paul Dietrich
1980
Film
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
1994
Film
Astronaut
Angus
2019
Film
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Self
1997
Film
Killing Winston Jones
Winston Jones
Film
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
2007
Film
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Self
1998
Film
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Self
2001
Film
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Self
2000
Film
The Making of 'Jaws'
Self
1995
Film
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
2001
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1986
Film
Prisoner of Honor
Col. Picquart
1991
Film
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
Film
The Last Word
Larry
1995
Film
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Antonio Bolivar
2001
Film
The Universal Story
Self
1996
Film
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Self
1987
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Self
1977
Film
Me
Greg
1973
Film
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Self
1997
Film
The Young Runaways
Terry
1968
Film
New England Our Way
Self
1974
Film
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Theodore Roosevelt
2003
Film
The John Garfield Story
Self
2003
Film
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Alexander Haig
2001
Film
Jaws: The Inside Story
Self
2010
Film
The Dish on Dolls
Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
2006
Film
In the Teeth of Jaws
Self
1997
Film
Two for the Money
Morris Gap
1972
Film
Cas & Dylan
Dr. Cas Pepper
2013
Film
Catch-22
Yossarian
1973
Film
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
2007
Film
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Self
2018
Film
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Self
2009
Film
The Shadow of a Gunman
Tommy Owen
1972
Film
Caserta Palace Dream
Luigi Vanvitelli
2014
Film
Spielberg on Spielberg
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Narrator
1998
Film
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Clavius
1974
Film
Manassas: End of Innocence
Narrator
2002
Film
Save Christmas
Santa
2022
Film
In Search of Peace
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2001
Film
Ocean of Fear
Narrator
2007
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
Film
The Two Million Year Old Boy
Narrator
2011
Film
The Johnstown Flood
narrator
2003
Film
America Betrayed
Narrator
2008