Richard Dreyfuss

Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
October 29, 1947

Place of Birth:
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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Richard Dreyfuss

Biography

Richard Dreyfuss 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. Dreyfuss 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.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self
The Daily Show
The Daily Show

Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

Self
Family Guy
Family Guy

Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
Family Guy
Family Guy

Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Self - Host
The View
The View

Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Filmography

Year Movie Role
2025 Into the Deep Seamus
2024 Waltzing with Brando Seymour Kraft
2023 Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life Self
2023 Sweetwater Maurice Podoloff
2022 Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony Narrator (voice)
2022 Murder at Yellowstone City Edgar
2022 Save Christmas Santa
2021 Every Last One of Them Murphy
2021 Crime Story Ben Myers
2020 Audrey Self - Actor
2019 The Last Laugh Buddy Green
2019 Polar Porter
2019 Daughter of the Wolf Father
2019 Astronaut Angus
2018 Third Party President: Citizen Rocky Self
2018 Book Club George
2018 Bayou Caviar Yuri
2018 Asher Avi
2017 Spielberg Self
2015 Zipper George Hiller
2014 Squatters David Silverman
2014 Caserta Palace Dream Luigi Vanvitelli
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... Self (archive footage)
2013 Very Good Girls Danny
2013 Paranoia Frank Cassidy
2013 Cas & Dylan Dr. Cas Pepper
2013 Milius Self
2012 Casting By Self
2011 The Two Million Year Old Boy Narrator
2010 Piranha 3D Matthew Boyd
2010 RED Alexander Dunning
2010 Jaws: The Inside Story Self
2009 My Life in Ruins Irv Gideon
2009 Leaves of Grass Pug Rothbaum
2009 The Lightkeepers Seth
2009 The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws" Self
2009 Waking Sleeping Beauty David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
2009 I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale Self
2008 W. Dick Cheney
2008 America Betrayed Narrator
2007 AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition Self
2007 Ocean of Fear Narrator
2007 The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo Self
2006 Poseidon Richard Nelson
2006 Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters Self
2005 The Adventures of Errol Flynn Self - Actor
2004 Silver City Chuck Raven
2004 A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope Narrator
2004 Coast to Coast Barnaby Pierce
2003 Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Self
2003 Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion Theodore Roosevelt
2003 The Johnstown Flood narrator
2003 The John Garfield Story Self
2002 Manassas: End of Innocence Narrator
2001 Who Is Cletis Tout? Micah Donnelly
2001 The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001 The Day Reagan Was Shot Alexander Haig
2001 The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' Self
2001 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys Scoop the Snowman (voice)
2001 R2-D2: Beneath the Dome Self
2001 In Search of Peace Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2000 Fail Safe President
2000 The Crew Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
2000 Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me Self
1999 Lansky Meyer Lansky
1998 Krippendorf's Tribe Prof. Krippendorf
1998 The Making of 'American Graffiti' Self
1998 Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude Narrator
1997 Night Falls on Manhattan Sam Vigoda
1997 Oliver Twist Fagin
1997 The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon Narrator (voice)
1997 Frank Capra's American Dream Self
1997 In the Teeth of Jaws Self
1997 Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady Self
1997 Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero Self
1996 James and the Giant Peach Centipede (voice)
1996 Mad Dog Time Vic
1996 The Universal Story Self
1995 Mr. Holland's Opus Glenn Holland
1995 The American President Senator Rumson
1995 The Making of 'Jaws' Self
1995 The Last Word Larry
1994 It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein Self
1994 Silent Fall Dr. Jake Rainer
1993 Another Stakeout Det. Chris Lecce
1993 Lost in Yonkers Louie Kurnitz
1992 Lincoln William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
1991 What About Bob? Dr. Leo Marvin
1991 Once Around Sam Sharpe
1991 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead The Player
1991 Prisoner of Honor Col. Picquart
1990 Postcards from the Edge Dr. Frankenthal
1989 Always Pete Sandich
1989 Let It Ride Jay Trotter
1988 Moon Over Parador Jack Noah
1988 James Stewart: A Wonderful Life Self
1987 Tin Men Bill 'BB' Babowsky
1987 Stakeout Det. Chris Lecce
1987 Citizen Steve Jedediah
1987 Nuts Aaron Levinsky
1987 Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville Self
1986 Stand by Me The Writer
1986 Down and Out in Beverly Hills Dave Whiteman
1985 Night of 100 Stars II Self
1984 The Buddy System Joe
1981 Whose Life Is It Anyway? Ken Harrison
1980 The Competition Paul Dietrich
1978 The Big Fix Moses Wine
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind Roy Neary
1977 The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' Self
1977 The Goodbye Girl Elliot Garfield
1977 The Sentinel Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
1977 The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1976 Victory at Entebbe Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
1975 Jaws Hooper
1975 Inserts Boy Wonder
1974 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Duddy
1974 The Second Coming of Suzanne Clavius
1974 New England Our Way Self
1973 American Graffiti Curt Henderson
1973 Catch-22 Yossarian
1973 Dillinger Baby Face Nelson
1973 Me Greg
1972 The Shadow of a Gunman Tommy Owen
1972 Two for the Money Morris Gap
1969 Hello Down There Harold Webster
1968 The Young Runaways Terry
1967 The Graduate Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
1967 Valley of the Dolls Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War Self
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