Personal Info
Known Credits
130
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1947-10-29 (78 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known For
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss리차드 드레이퓨즈
Richard Dreyfuss
Biography
An American actor best known for starring in a number of 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 ...
Known For
Acting
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 --
Save Christmas
| Santa
2022 --
Murder at Yellowstone City
| Edgar
2021 --
Every Last One of Them
| Murphy
2021 --
Crime Story
| Ben Myers
2020 --
Audrey
| Self - Actor
2019 --
Astronaut
| Angus
2019 --
Daughter of the Wolf
| Father
2019 --
Polar
| Porter
2019 --
The Last Laugh
| Buddy Green
2018 --
Asher
| Avi
2018 --
Bayou Caviar
| Yuri
2018 --
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
| Self
2018 --
Book Club
| George
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 --
Cas & Dylan
| Dr. Cas Pepper
2013 --
Paranoia
| Frank Cassidy
2013 --
Milius
| Self
2013 --
Very Good Girls
| Danny
2012 --
Casting By
| Self
2011 --
The Two Million Year Old Boy
| Narrator
2010 --
RED
| Alexander Dunning
2010 --
Piranha 3D
| Matthew Boyd
2010 --
Jaws: The Inside Story
| Self
2009 --
The Lightkeepers
| Seth
2009 --
Leaves of Grass
| Pug Rothbaum
2009 --
Waking Sleeping Beauty
| David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
2009 --
My Life in Ruins
| Irv Gideon
2009 --
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"
| Self
2009 --
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
| Self
2008 --
W.
| Dick Cheney
2008 --
America Betrayed
| Narrator
2007 --
Ocean of Fear
| Narrator
2007 --
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
| Self
2007 --
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
| Self
2006 --
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
| Self
2006 --
Poseidon
| Richard Nelson
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 --
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
| Theodore Roosevelt
2003 --
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
| Self
2003 --
The John Garfield Story
| Self
2003 --
The Johnstown Flood
| narrator
2002 --
Manassas: End of Innocence
| Narrator
2001 --
The Day Reagan Was Shot
| Alexander Haig
2001 --
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
| Self
2001 --
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
| Scoop the Snowman (voice)
2001 --
In Search of Peace
| Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2001 --
Who Is Cletis Tout?
| Micah Donnelly
2001 --
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
| Self
2001 --
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
|
2000 --
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
| Self
2000 --
The Crew
| Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
2000 --
Fail Safe
| President
1999 --
Lansky
| Meyer Lansky
1998 --
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
| Narrator
1998 --
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
| Self
1998 --
Krippendorf's Tribe
| Prof. Krippendorf
1997 --
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
| Narrator (voice)
1997 --
Oliver Twist
| Fagin
1997 --
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
| Self
1997 --
Night Falls on Manhattan
| Sam Vigoda
1997 --
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
| Self
1997 --
In the Teeth of Jaws
| Self
1997 --
Frank Capra's American Dream
| Self
1996 --
Mad Dog Time
| Vic
1996 --
The Universal Story
| Self
1996 --
James and the Giant Peach
| Centipede (voice)
1995 --
Mr. Holland's Opus
| Glenn Holland
1995 --
The Making of 'Jaws'
| Self
1995 --
The American President
| Senator Rumson
1995 --
The Last Word
| Larry
1994 --
Silent Fall
| Dr. Jake Rainer
1994 --
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
| Self
1993 --
Another Stakeout
| Det. Chris Lecce
1993 --
Lost in Yonkers
| Louie Kurnitz
1992 --
Lincoln
| William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
1991 --
Prisoner of Honor
| Col. Picquart
1991 --
What About Bob?
| Dr. Leo Marvin
1991 --
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
| The Player
1991 --
Once Around
| Sam Sharpe
1990 --
Postcards from the Edge
| Dr. Frankenthal
1989 --
Always
| Pete Sandich
1989 --
Let It Ride
| Jay Trotter
1988 --
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
| Self
1988 --
Moon Over Parador
| Jack Noah
1987 --
Nuts
| Aaron Levinsky
1987 --
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
| Self
1987 --
Stakeout
| Det. Chris Lecce
1987 --
Tin Men
| Bill 'BB' Babowsky
1987 --
Citizen Steve
| Jedediah
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 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
|
1977 --
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
| Self
1976 --
Victory at Entebbe
| Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
1975 --
Jaws
| Hooper
1975 --
Inserts
| Boy Wonder
1974 --
New England Our Way
| Self
1974 --
The Second Coming of Suzanne
| Clavius
1974 --
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
| Duddy
1973 --
Me
| Greg
1973 --
American Graffiti
| Curt Henderson
1973 --
Dillinger
| Baby Face Nelson
1973 --
Catch-22
| Yossarian
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 --
Valley of the Dolls
| Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
1967 --
The Graduate
| Boarding House Resident (uncredited)