Richard Dreyfuss
Actor

Richard Dreyfuss

7 Movies
7 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 7
Birthday October 29, 1947 (78 years old)
Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As Richard Stephen Dreyfuss
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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.

Filmography (188)

Waltzing with Brando 2025
Into the Deep 2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story 2025
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life 2023
Sweetwater 2023
Commitment to Life 2023
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony 2022
Murder at Yellowstone City 2022
Save Christmas 2022
Every Last One of Them 2021
Crime Story 2021
Audrey 2020
Jaws Toy Movie 2020
Stars in the House 2020
The Last Laugh 2019
Polar 2019
Daughter of the Wolf 2019
Astronaut 2019
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky 2018
Book Club 2018
Bayou Caviar 2018
Asher 2018
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer 2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 2018
Spielberg 2017
Shots Fired 2017
Madoff 2016
Zipper 2015
Your Family or Mine 2015
Squatters 2014
Caserta Palace Dream 2014
The Real History of Science Fiction 2014
Very Good Girls 2013
Paranoia 2013
Cas & Dylan 2013
Milius 2013
Casting By 2012
Coma 2012
The Two Million Year Old Boy 2011
Bubble Guppies 2011
Piranha 3D 2010
RED 2010
Jaws: The Inside Story 2010
Parenthood 2010
My Life in Ruins 2009
Leaves of Grass 2009
The Lightkeepers 2009
The Shark Is Still Working 2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty 2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale 2009
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist 2009
W. 2008
America Betrayed 2008
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition 2007
Ocean of Fear 2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo 2007
Spielberg on Spielberg 2007
Tin Man 2007
Poseidon 2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters 2006
The Dish on Dolls 2006
The Adventures of Errol Flynn 2005
Weeds 2005
The Reichen Show 2005
Silver City 2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope 2004
Coast to Coast 2004
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood 2003
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion 2003
The Johnstown Flood 2003
The John Garfield Story 2003
Manassas: End of Innocence 2002
Who Is Cletis Tout? 2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories 2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot 2001
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' 2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys 2001
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome 2001
In Search of Peace 2001
The Education of Max Bickford 2001
Fail Safe 2000
The Crew 2000
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me 2000
Lansky 1999
Family Guy 1999
Where Are They Now? 1999
Krippendorf's Tribe 1998
The Making of 'American Graffiti' 1998
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude 1998
The Entertainment Biz 1998
Night Falls on Manhattan 1997
Oliver Twist 1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon 1997
Frank Capra's American Dream 1997
In the Teeth of Jaws 1997
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady 1997
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero 1997
The View 1997
The Wonderful World of Disney 1997
HARDtalk 1997
James and the Giant Peach 1996
Mad Dog Time 1996
The Universal Story 1996
The Daily Show 1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show 1996
Mr. Holland's Opus 1995 The American President 1995
The Making of 'Jaws' 1995
The Last Word 1995
The Frank Skinner Show 1995
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein 1994
Silent Fall 1994
Inside the Actors Studio 1994
Another Stakeout 1993
Lost in Yonkers 1993
Lincoln 1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories 1992
What About Bob? 1991
Once Around 1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 1991
Prisoner of Honor 1991
Postcards from the Edge 1990
American Chronicles 1990
Always 1989
Let It Ride 1989
Moon Over Parador 1988
Tin Men 1987
Stakeout 1987
Citizen Steve 1987
Nuts 1987
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville 1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life 1987
Stand by Me 1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills 1986
Night of 100 Stars II 1985
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 Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' 1977
The Goodbye Girl 1977
The Sentinel 1977
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play 1977
Victory at Entebbe 1976
Jaws 1975
Inserts 1975
Saturday Night Live 1975
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1974
The Second Coming of Suzanne 1974
New England Our Way 1974
American Graffiti 1973
Catch-22 1973
Dillinger 1973
Me 1973
A Touch of Grace 1973
The Shadow of a Gunman 1972
Two for the Money 1972
Great Performances 1971
The New Dick Van Dyke Show 1971
Treffpunkte 1970
Hello Down There 1969
Room 222 1969
The New People 1969
The Young Runaways 1968
The Mod Squad 1968
The Graduate 1967
Valley of the Dolls 1967
Judd, for the Defense 1967
The Second Hundred Years 1967
That Girl 1966
Felony Squad 1966
Hey Landlord! 1966
Occasional Wife 1966
Gidget 1965
The Big Valley 1965
Bewitched 1964
Karen 1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1962
Ben Casey 1961
The Mike Douglas Show 1961
Gunsmoke 1955
The Oscars 1953
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Killing Winston Jones
Ocean of Fear
Happiness Isn't Everything