Richard Dreyfuss

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

Family Guy

Family Guy

The Daily Show

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Saturday Night Live

The Mike Douglas Show

The View

Bewitched

All Movies (136)

• Waltzing with Brando2025 · as Seymour Kraft
• Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story2025 · as Self
• Into the Deep2025 · as Seamus
• Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life2023 · as Self
• Sweetwater2023 · as Maurice Podoloff
• Commitment to Life2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony2022 · as Narrator (voice)
• Save Christmas2022 · as Santa
• Murder at Yellowstone City2022 · as Edgar
• Every Last One of Them2021 · as Murphy
• Crime Story2021 · as Ben Myers
• Audrey2020 · as Self - Actor
• Jaws Toy Movie2020 · as Matt Hooper (voice)
• Astronaut2019 · as Angus
• Daughter of the Wolf2019 · as Father
• Polar2019 · as Porter
• The Last Laugh2019 · as Buddy Green
• Asher2018 · as Avi
• Bayou Caviar2018 · as Yuri
• Third Party President: Citizen Rocky2018 · as Self
• Book Club2018 · as George
• Spielberg2017 · as Self
• Zipper2015 · as George Hiller
• Squatters2014 · as David Silverman
• Caserta Palace Dream2014 · as Luigi Vanvitelli
• Cas & Dylan2013 · as Dr. Cas Pepper
• Paranoia2013 · as Frank Cassidy
• Milius2013 · as Self
• Very Good Girls2013 · as Danny
• Casting By2012 · as Self
• The Two Million Year Old Boy2011 · as Narrator
• RED2010 · as Alexander Dunning
• Piranha 3D2010 · as Matthew Boyd
• Jaws: The Inside Story2010 · as Self
• The Lightkeepers2009 · as Seth
• Leaves of Grass2009 · as Pug Rothbaum
• Waking Sleeping Beauty2009 · as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
• My Life in Ruins2009 · as Irv Gideon
• The Shark Is Still Working2009 · as Self
• I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale2009 · as Self
• American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist2009 · as Self
• W.2008 · as Dick Cheney
• America Betrayed2008 · as Narrator
• Ocean of Fear2007 · as Narrator
• Spielberg on Spielberg2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition2007 · as Self
• The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo2007 · as Self
• Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters2006 · as Self
• The Dish on Dolls2006 · as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
• Poseidon2006 · as Richard Nelson
• The Adventures of Errol Flynn2005 · as Self - Actor
• Silver City2004 · as Chuck Raven
• A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope2004 · as Narrator
• Coast to Coast2004 · as Barnaby Pierce
• Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion2003 · as Theodore Roosevelt
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood2003 · as Self
• The John Garfield Story2003 · as Self
• The Johnstown Flood2003 · as narrator
• Manassas: End of Innocence2002 · as Narrator
• The Day Reagan Was Shot2001 · as Alexander Haig
• R2-D2: Beneath the Dome2001 · as Self
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys2001 · as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
• In Search of Peace2001 · as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
• Who Is Cletis Tout?2001 · as Micah Donnelly
• The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'2001 · as Self
• The Old Man Who Read Love Stories2001 · as Antonio Bolivar
• Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me2000 · as Self
• The Crew2000 · as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
• Fail Safe2000 · as President
• Lansky1999 · as Meyer Lansky
• Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude1998 · as Narrator
• The Making of 'American Graffiti'1998 · as Self
• Krippendorf's Tribe1998 · as Prof. Krippendorf
• The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon1997 · as Narrator (voice)
• Frank Capra's American Dream1997 · as Self
• Oliver Twist1997 · as Fagin
• Night Falls on Manhattan1997 · as Sam Vigoda
• Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady1997 · as Self
• Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero1997 · as Self
• In the Teeth of Jaws1997 · as Self
• Mad Dog Time1996 · as Vic
• The Universal Story1996 · as Self
• James and the Giant Peach1996 · as Centipede (voice)
• Mr. Holland's Opus1995 · as Glenn Holland
• The Making of 'Jaws'1995 · as Self
• The American President1995 · as Senator Rumson
• The Last Word1995 · as Larry
• Silent Fall1994 · as Dr. Jake Rainer
• It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein1994 · as Self
• Another Stakeout1993 · as Det. Chris Lecce
• Lost in Yonkers1993 · as Louie Kurnitz
• Lincoln1992 · as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
• Prisoner of Honor1991 · as Col. Picquart
• What About Bob?1991 · as Dr. Leo Marvin
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead1991 · as The Player
• Once Around1991 · as Sam Sharpe
• Postcards from the Edge1990 · as Dr. Frankenthal
• Always1989 · as Pete Sandich
• Let It Ride1989 · as Jay Trotter
• Moon Over Parador1988 · as Jack Noah
• Nuts1987 · as Aaron Levinsky
• Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville1987 · as Self
• Stakeout1987 · as Det. Chris Lecce
• James Stewart: A Wonderful Life1987 · as Self
• Tin Men1987 · as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
• Citizen Steve1987 · as Jedediah
• Stand by Me1986 · as The Writer
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills1986 · as Dave Whiteman
• Night of 100 Stars II1985 · as Self
• The Buddy System1984 · as Joe
• Whose Life Is It Anyway?1981 · as Ken Harrison
• The Competition1980 · as Paul Dietrich
• The Big Fix1978 · as Moses Wine
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977 · as Roy Neary
• The Goodbye Girl1977 · as Elliot Garfield
• The Sentinel1977 · as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
• The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'1977 · as Self
• The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play1977
• Victory at Entebbe1976 · as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
• Jaws1975 · as Hooper
• Inserts1975 · as Boy Wonder
• New England Our Way1974 · as Self
• The Second Coming of Suzanne1974 · as Clavius
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz1974 · as Duddy
• Me1973 · as Greg
• American Graffiti1973 · as Curt Henderson
• Dillinger1973 · as Baby Face Nelson
• Catch-221973 · as Yossarian
• The Shadow of a Gunman1972 · as Tommy Owen
• Two for the Money1972 · as Morris Gap
• Hello Down There1969 · as Harold Webster
• The Young Runaways1968 · as Terry
• Valley of the Dolls1967 · as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
• The Graduate1967 · as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
• I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War— · as Self
• Killing Winston Jones— · as Winston Jones

All TV Shows (53)

• Stars in the House2020 · as Self
• Firing Line with Margaret Hoover2018 · as Self
• The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer2018 · as Self - Guest
• Shots Fired2017 · as Arlen Cox
• Madoff2016 · as Bernie Madoff
• Your Family or Mine2015 · as Louis
• The Real History of Science Fiction2014 · as Self
• Coma2012 · as Professor Hillside
• Bubble Guppies2011 · as Captain Acrab
• Parenthood2010 · as Gilliam T. Blount
• Tin Man2007 · as Mystic Man
• The Reichen Show2005 · as Self
• Weeds2005 · as Warren Schiff
• The Education of Max Bickford2001 · as Max Bickford
• Where Are They Now?1999 · as Self
• Family Guy1999 · as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
• Family Guy1999 · as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
• The Entertainment Biz1998 · as Self
• The Wonderful World of Disney1997
• The View1997 · as Self
• HARDtalk1997
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show1996 · as Self - Guest
• The Frank Skinner Show1995 · as Self
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992
• Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories1992 · as Narrator (voice)
• American Chronicles1990 · as narrator
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Host
• A Touch of Grace1973
• The New Dick Van Dyke Show1971 · as Tony Injijikian
• Great Performances1971 · as Self
• Treffpunkte1970 · as Self
• The New People1969
• Room 2221969
• The Mod Squad1968
• Judd, for the Defense1967
• The Second Hundred Years1967 · as Ben Jr.
• Occasional Wife1966
• Felony Squad1966
• Hey Landlord!1966
• That Girl1966
• Gidget1965
• The Big Valley1965 · as Lud
• Karen1964 · as David Rowe III
• Bewitched1964
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• Ben Casey1961
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Gearshon Gorofsky
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Ocean of Fear— · as Narrator (voice)
• Happiness Isn't Everything— · as Jerry Hamburger