Richard Dreyfuss
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.
Born: October 29, 1947 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Filmography (136)
Waltzing with Brando
2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
Into the Deep
2025
Sweetwater
2023
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
Every Last One of Them
2021
Crime Story
2021
Audrey
2020
Stars in the House
2020
Astronaut
2019
Daughter of the Wolf
2019
Polar
2019
The Last Laugh
2019
Asher
2018
Bayou Caviar
2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Book Club
2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
Spielberg
2017
Shots Fired
2017
Madoff
2016
Zipper
2015
Your Family or Mine
2015
Squatters
2014
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
Cas & Dylan
2013
Paranoia
2013
Milius
2013
Very Good Girls
2013
Casting By
2012
Coma
2012
Bubble Guppies
2011
RED
2010
Piranha 3D
2010
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010
Parenthood
2010
The Lightkeepers
2009
Leaves of Grass
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
My Life in Ruins
2009
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
W.
2008
Tin Man
2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
Poseidon
2006
The Reichen Show
2005
Weeds
2005
Silver City
2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000
The Crew
2000
Fail Safe
2000
Lansky
1999
Family Guy
1999
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
The View
1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
Oliver Twist
1997
HARDtalk
1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
Mad Dog Time
1996
The Daily Show
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
The American President
1995
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
Silent Fall
1994
Quiz Show
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Another Stakeout
1993
Lost in Yonkers
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Prisoner of Honor
1991
What About Bob?
1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
Once Around
1991
Postcards from the Edge
1990
Always
1989
Let It Ride
1989
Moon Over Parador
1988
Nuts
1987
Stakeout
1987
Tin Men
1987
Citizen Steve
1987
Stand by Me
1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
The Buddy System
1984
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
The Competition
1980
The Big Fix
1978
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
The Goodbye Girl
1977
The Sentinel
1977
Victory at Entebbe
1976
Saturday Night Live
1975
Jaws
1975
Inserts
1975
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
American Graffiti
1973
Dillinger
1973
Great Performances
1971
Room 222
1969
Hello Down There
1969
The Mod Squad
1968
Valley of the Dolls
1967
The Graduate
1967
Judd for the Defense
1967
The Second Hundred Years
1967
Occasional Wife
1966
Felony Squad
1966
Hey Landlord!
1966
That Girl
1966
Gidget
1965
The Big Valley
1965
Karen
1964
Bewitched
1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Ben Casey
1961
Gunsmoke
1955
The Oscars
1953