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