Cast
Richard Dreyfuss
Acting
Cast
Richard Dreyfuss
Known for
Acting
Born
1947-10-29
From
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also known as Richard Stephen 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.
★7.7
MOVIE1975
Jaws
as Hooper
★6.7
MOVIE2010
RED
as Alexander Dunning
★7.8
MOVIE1986
Stand by Me
as The Writer
★6.4
MOVIE2019
Polar
as Porter
★7.4
MOVIE1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
★5.9
MOVIE2006
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
★7.6
MOVIE1967
The Graduate
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1973
American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson
★6.6
MOVIE1996
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)
★5.4
MOVIE2010
Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd
★5.7
MOVIE2013
Paranoia
as Frank Cassidy
★6.5
MOVIE1995
The American President
as Senator Rumson
★5.9
MOVIE2025
Into the Deep
as Seamus
★6.9
MOVIE1991
What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin
★6.5
MOVIE1987
Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
★6.9
MOVIE1977
The Goodbye Girl
as Elliot Garfield
★6.7
MOVIE1973
Catch-22
as Yossarian
★6.2
MOVIE2018
Book Club
as George
★6.6
MOVIE1990
Postcards from the Edge
as Dr. Frankenthal
★6.1
MOVIE2009
My Life in Ruins
as Irv Gideon
★7.5
MOVIE2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE2017
Spielberg
as Self
★5.7
MOVIE1975
Inserts
as Boy Wonder
★7.0
MOVIE1995
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Glenn Holland
★6.1
MOVIE2008
W.
as Dick Cheney
★6.2
MOVIE1989
Always
as Pete Sandich
★5.5
MOVIE2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar
★6.0
MOVIE1967
Valley of the Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE2001
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1987
Citizen Steve
as Jedediah
★6.0
MOVIE2009
Leaves of Grass
as Pug Rothbaum
★6.3
MOVIE1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Sam Vigoda
★5.4
MOVIE2000
The Crew
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
★5.5
MOVIE1993
Another Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
★7.2
MOVIE2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
★6.3
MOVIE1987
Tin Men
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
★6.9
MOVIE2023
Sweetwater
as Maurice Podoloff
★5.6
MOVIE1999
Lansky
as Meyer Lansky
★6.1
MOVIE1977
The Sentinel
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
as Dave Whiteman
★5.8
MOVIE2013
Very Good Girls
as Danny
★5.5
MOVIE2015
Zipper
as George Hiller
★4.6
MOVIE1998
Krippendorf's Tribe
as Prof. Krippendorf
★5.5
MOVIE2019
Daughter of the Wolf
as Father
★7.3
MOVIE2009
The Shark Is Still Working
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Alexander Haig
★5.9
MOVIE2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1985
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as The Player
★6.3
MOVIE1987
Nuts
as Aaron Levinsky
★6.4
MOVIE1989
Let It Ride
as Jay Trotter
★5.2
MOVIE2021
Every Last One of Them
as Murphy
★7.6
MOVIE2000
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE2020
Audrey
as Self - Actor
★6.9
MOVIE2012
Casting By
as Self
★5.8
MOVIE2009
The Lightkeepers
as Seth
★5.9
MOVIE1988
Moon Over Parador
as Jack Noah
★6.9
MOVIE2000
Fail Safe
as President
★5.3
MOVIE1996
Mad Dog Time
as Vic
MOVIE2023
Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)
★6.1
MOVIE1980
The Competition
as Paul Dietrich
★5.9
MOVIE1969
Hello Down There
as Harold Webster
★5.3
MOVIE1994
Silent Fall
as Dr. Jake Rainer
★5.1
MOVIE1976
Victory at Entebbe
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
MOVIETBA
Killing Winston Jones
as Winston Jones
★7.7
MOVIE2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self - Actor
★5.8
MOVIE2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?
as Micah Donnelly
★7.3
MOVIE1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
as Narrator (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2014
Caserta Palace Dream
as Luigi Vanvitelli
★5.4
MOVIE2019
The Last Laugh
as Buddy Green
★5.7
MOVIE2025
Waltzing with Brando
as Seymour Kraft
★5.8
MOVIE1978
The Big Fix
as Moses Wine
★6.3
MOVIE1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2003
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
as Theodore Roosevelt
★6.9
MOVIE2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2014
Squatters
as David Silverman
★6.6
MOVIE1973
Dillinger
as Baby Face Nelson
★4.7
MOVIE1984
The Buddy System
as Joe
★7.5
MOVIE2007
Spielberg on Spielberg
as Self (archive footage)
★7.3
MOVIE2010
Jaws: The Inside Story
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE1997
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
★8.4
MOVIE2003
The John Garfield Story
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2004
Coast to Coast
as Barnaby Pierce
★6.5
MOVIE1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1981
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
as Ken Harrison
★3.8
MOVIE2021
Crime Story
as Ben Myers
★7.1
MOVIE2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE1991
Once Around
as Sam Sharpe
★7.3
MOVIE1992
Lincoln
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
★3.3
MOVIE1995
The Last Word
as Larry
★6.1
MOVIE2004
Silver City
as Chuck Raven
★7.0
MOVIE2001
In Search of Peace
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
★7.8
MOVIE1998
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
as Duddy
★7.1
MOVIE2013
Milius
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1972
The Shadow of a Gunman
as Tommy Owen
★6.5
MOVIE2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self
★7.6
MOVIE2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
as Narrator
★8.8
MOVIE1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1993
Lost in Yonkers
as Louie Kurnitz
★7.5
MOVIE1972
Two for the Money
as Morris Gap
★6.3
MOVIE1991
Prisoner of Honor
as Col. Picquart
★5.8
MOVIE2018
Asher
as Avi
★10.0
MOVIE1973
Me
as Greg
★8.0
MOVIE1996
The Universal Story
as Self
★4.6
MOVIE2018
Bayou Caviar
as Yuri
★8.0
MOVIE1997
In the Teeth of Jaws
as Self
★6.8
MOVIE1995
The Making of 'Jaws'
as Self
MOVIE1974
New England Our Way
as Self
MOVIE2007
Ocean of Fear
as Narrator
MOVIE2009
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1997
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE2001
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1997
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1987
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE2019
Astronaut
as Angus
★8.0
MOVIE2002
Manassas: End of Innocence
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE1968
The Young Runaways
as Terry
★6.9
MOVIE2022
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
as Narrator (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2013
Cas & Dylan
as Dr. Cas Pepper
MOVIE2006
The Dish on Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
★7.5
MOVIE2003
The Johnstown Flood
as narrator
★6.0
MOVIE2008
America Betrayed
as Narrator
★3.0
MOVIE1974
The Second Coming of Suzanne
as Clavius
★6.7
MOVIE2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
as Self
MOVIE2023
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
as Antonio Bolivar
MOVIE2022
Save Christmas
as Santa
★10.0
MOVIE1977
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
as Self
MOVIE2018
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
as Self
MOVIE1977
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
MOVIE2011
The Two Million Year Old Boy
as Narrator
MOVIETBA
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1998
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
as Narrator