Richard Dreyfuss
- Acting
- October 29, 1947 · 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Waltzing with Brando · Seymour Kraft
- Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story · Self
- Into the Deep · Seamus
- Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life · Self
- Sweetwater · Maurice Podoloff
- Commitment to Life · Self
- Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony · Narrator (Voice)
- Save Christmas · Santa
- Murder at Yellowstone City · Edgar, Executive producer
- Every Last One of Them · Murphy, Executive producer
- Crime Story · Ben Myers, Executive producer
- Audrey · Self
- Stars in the House · Self
- Astronaut · Angus, Executive producer
- Daughter of the Wolf · Father
- Polar · Porter
- The Last Laugh · Buddy Green
- Asher · Avi
- Bayou Caviar · Yuri
- Firing Line with Margaret Hoover · Self
- Third Party President: Citizen Rocky · Self
- Book Club · George
- The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer · Self
- Spielberg · Self
- Shots Fired · Arlen Cox
- Madoff · Bernie Madoff
- Zipper · George Hiller
- Your Family or Mine · Louis
- Squatters · David Silverman
- The Real History of Science Fiction · Self
- Caserta Palace Dream · Luigi Vanvitelli
- Cas & Dylan · Dr. Cas Pepper
- Paranoia · Frank Cassidy
- Milius · Self
- Very Good Girls · Danny
- Casting By · Self
- Coma · Professor Hillside
- The Two Million Year Old Boy · Narrator
- Bubble Guppies · Captain Acrab
- RED · Alexander Dunning
- Piranha 3D · Matthew Boyd
- Jaws: The Inside Story · Self
- Waking Sleeping Beauty · David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
- Parenthood · Gilliam T. Blount
- The Lightkeepers · Seth
- Leaves of Grass · Pug Rothbaum
- My Life in Ruins · Irv Gideon
- The Shark Is Still Working · Self
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale · Self
- American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist · Self
- W. · Dick Cheney
- America Betrayed · Narrator
- Tin Man · Mystic Man
- Ocean of Fear · Narrator
- Spielberg on Spielberg · Self
- AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition · Self
- The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo · Self
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters · Self
- The Dish on Dolls · Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
- Poseidon · Richard Nelson
- The Reichen Show · Self
- Weeds · Warren Schiff
- The Adventures of Errol Flynn · Self
- Silver City · Chuck Raven
- A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope · Narrator
- Coast to Coast · Barnaby Pierce
- Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion · Theodore Roosevelt
- Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion · Voice of Theodore Roosevelt
- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood · Self
- The John Garfield Story · Self
- The Johnstown Flood · narrator
- Manassas: End of Innocence · Narrator
- The Day Reagan Was Shot · Alexander Haig
- R2-D2: Beneath the Dome · Self
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys · Scoop the Snowman (Voice)
- The Education of Max Bickford · Max Bickford
- In Search of Peace · Yitzhak Rabin (Voice)
- Who Is Cletis Tout? · Micah Donnelly
- The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' · Self
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories · Antonio Bolivar