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Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss

ActingBorn October 29, 1947 (age 78)Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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

2025
Waltzing with Brando

as Seymour Kraft

Movie
2025
Into the Deep

as Seamus

Movie
2023
Sweetwater

as Maurice Podoloff

Movie
2023
Commitment to Life

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2022Movie
2022Movie
2021Movie
2021
Crime Story

as Ben Myers

Movie
2020
Audrey

as Self - Actor

Movie
2020TV
2019
Astronaut

as Angus

Movie
2019Movie
2019
Polar

as Porter

Movie
2019
The Last Laugh

as Buddy Green

Movie
2018
Asher

as Avi

Movie
2018Movie
2018
Book Club

as George

Movie
2017
Spielberg

as Self

Movie
2017
Shots Fired

as Arlen Cox

TV
2016
Madoff

as Bernie Madoff

TV
2015
Zipper

as George Hiller

Movie
2015TV
2014
Squatters

as David Silverman

Movie
2014
Caserta Palace Dream

as Luigi Vanvitelli

Movie
2013
Cas & Dylan

as Dr. Cas Pepper

Movie
2013
Paranoia

as Frank Cassidy

Movie
2013
Milius

as Self

Movie
2013Movie
2012
Casting By

as Self

Movie
2012
Coma

as Professor Hillside

TV
2011Movie
2011
Bubble Guppies

as Captain Acrab

TV
2010
RED

as Alexander Dunning

Movie
2010
Piranha 3D

as Matthew Boyd

Movie
2010Movie
2010
Parenthood

as Gilliam T. Blount

TV
2009Movie
2009
Leaves of Grass

as Pug Rothbaum

Movie
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty

as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

Movie
2009
My Life in Ruins

as Irv Gideon

Movie
2008
W.

as Dick Cheney

Movie
2008
America Betrayed

as Narrator

Movie
2007
Tin Man

as Mystic Man

TV
2007
Ocean of Fear

as Narrator

Movie
2007
Spielberg on Spielberg

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2006
The Dish on Dolls

as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)

Movie
2006
Poseidon

as Richard Nelson

Movie
2005TV
2005
Weeds

as Warren Schiff

TV
2005Movie
2004
Silver City

as Chuck Raven

Movie
2004
Coast to Coast

as Barnaby Pierce

Movie
2003Movie
2003Movie
2003Movie
2002Movie
2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot

as Alexander Haig

Movie
2001Movie
2001TV
2001
In Search of Peace

as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

Movie
2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?

as Micah Donnelly

Movie
2001Movie
2000
The Crew

as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

Movie
2000
Fail Safe

as President

Movie
1999TV
1999
Lansky

as Meyer Lansky

Movie
1999
Family Guy

as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)

TV
1999
Family Guy

as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)

TV
1998
Krippendorf's Tribe

as Prof. Krippendorf

Movie
1997
The View

as Self

TV
1997Movie
1997
Oliver Twist

as Fagin

Movie
1997TV
1997Movie
1997Movie
1996Movie
1996TV
1996TV
1996Movie
1996
James and the Giant Peach

as Centipede (voice)

Movie
1995
Mr. Holland's Opus

as Glenn Holland

Movie
1995Movie
1995
The American President

as Senator Rumson

Movie
1995Movie
1994
Silent Fall

as Dr. Jake Rainer

Movie
1993
Another Stakeout

as Det. Chris Lecce

Movie
1993
Lost in Yonkers

as Louie Kurnitz

Movie
1992
Lincoln

as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)

Movie
1992TV
1991
Prisoner of Honor

as Col. Picquart

Movie
1991
What About Bob?

as Dr. Leo Marvin

Movie
1991
Once Around

as Sam Sharpe

Movie
1990
Postcards from the Edge

as Dr. Frankenthal

Movie
1990TV
1989
Always

as Pete Sandich

Movie
1989
Let It Ride

as Jay Trotter

Movie
1988
Moon Over Parador

as Jack Noah

Movie
1987
Nuts

as Aaron Levinsky

Movie
1987
Stakeout

as Det. Chris Lecce

Movie
1987
Tin Men

as Bill 'BB' Babowsky

Movie
1987
Citizen Steve

as Jedediah

Movie
1986
Stand by Me

as The Writer

Movie
1986Movie
1985Movie
1984Movie
1981Movie
1980
The Competition

as Paul Dietrich

Movie
1978
The Big Fix

as Moses Wine

Movie
1977
The Goodbye Girl

as Elliot Garfield

Movie
1977
The Sentinel

as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)

Movie
1976
Victory at Entebbe

as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

Movie
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

TV
1975
Jaws

as Hooper

Movie
1975
Inserts

as Boy Wonder

Movie
1974Movie
1974Movie
1973
Me

as Greg

Movie
1973
American Graffiti

as Curt Henderson

Movie
1973
Dillinger

as Baby Face Nelson

Movie
1973
Catch-22

as Yossarian

Movie
1972Movie
1972
Two for the Money

as Morris Gap

Movie
1971
The New Dick Van Dyke Show

as Tony Injijikian

TV
1971TV
1970TV
1969TV
1969
Hello Down There

as Harold Webster

Movie
1968Movie
1967
Valley of the Dolls

as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)

Movie
1967
The Graduate

as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

Movie
1967TV
1966TV
1965TV
1965TV
1964
Karen

as David Rowe III

TV
1964TV
1961TV
1955
Gunsmoke

as Gearshon Gorofsky

TV
1953
The Oscars

as Self

TV
Killing Winston Jones

as Winston Jones

Movie
Ocean of Fear

as Narrator (voice)

TV
Happiness Isn't Everything

as Jerry Hamburger

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayOctober 29, 1947
Place of BirthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Popularity2.4
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