Person
Richard Dreyfuss
Acting · Born 1947-10-29 · 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
Family Guy
Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
The Daily Show
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
The View
Self
Great Performances
Self
Bewitched
1964
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Weeds
Warren Schiff
Filmography
- 2025Waltzing with BrandoSeymour Kraft
- 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside StorySelf
- 2025Into the DeepSeamus
- 2023Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched LifeSelf
- 2023SweetwaterMaurice Podoloff
- 2023Commitment to LifeSelf (archive footage)
- 2022Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost TestimonyNarrator (voice)
- 2022Save ChristmasSanta
- 2022Murder at Yellowstone CityEdgar
- 2021Every Last One of ThemMurphy
- 2021Crime StoryBen Myers
- 2020AudreySelf - Actor
- 2020Stars in the HouseSelf
- 2019AstronautAngus
- 2019Daughter of the WolfFather
- 2019PolarPorter
- 2019The Last LaughBuddy Green
- 2018AsherAvi
- 2018Bayou CaviarYuri
- 2018Firing Line with Margaret HooverSelf
- 2018Third Party President: Citizen RockySelf
- 2018Book ClubGeorge
- 2018The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To CancerSelf - Guest
- 2017SpielbergSelf
- 2017Shots FiredArlen Cox
- 2016MadoffBernie Madoff
- 2015ZipperGeorge Hiller
- 2015Your Family or MineLouis
- 2014SquattersDavid Silverman
- 2014The Real History of Science FictionSelf
- 2014Caserta Palace DreamLuigi Vanvitelli
- 2013Cas & DylanDr. Cas Pepper
- 2013ParanoiaFrank Cassidy
- 2013MiliusSelf
- 2013Very Good GirlsDanny
- 2012Casting BySelf
- 2012ComaProfessor Hillside
- 2011The Two Million Year Old BoyNarrator
- 2011Bubble GuppiesCaptain Acrab
- 2010REDAlexander Dunning
- 2010Piranha 3DMatthew Boyd
- 2010Jaws: The Inside StorySelf
- 2010ParenthoodGilliam T. Blount
- 2009The LightkeepersSeth
- 2009Leaves of GrassPug Rothbaum
- 2009Waking Sleeping BeautyDavid 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
- 2009My Life in RuinsIrv Gideon
- 2009The Shark Is Still WorkingSelf
- 2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John CazaleSelf
- 2009American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical HumanistSelf
- 2008W.Dick Cheney
- 2008America BetrayedNarrator
- 2007Tin ManMystic Man
- 2007Ocean of FearNarrator
- 2007Spielberg on SpielbergSelf (archive footage)
- 2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary EditionSelf
- 2007The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. AlonzoSelf
- 2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and BlockbustersSelf
- 2006The Dish on DollsAssistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
- 2006PoseidonRichard Nelson
- 2005The Reichen ShowSelf
- 2005WeedsWarren Schiff
- 2005The Adventures of Errol FlynnSelf - Actor
- 2004Silver CityChuck Raven
- 2004A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American ZoetropeNarrator
- 2004Coast to CoastBarnaby Pierce
- 2003Teddy Roosevelt: An American LionTheodore Roosevelt
- 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved HollywoodSelf
- 2003The John Garfield StorySelf
- 2003The Johnstown Floodnarrator
- 2002Manassas: End of InnocenceNarrator
- 2001The Day Reagan Was ShotAlexander Haig
- 2001R2-D2: Beneath the DomeSelf
- 2001Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit ToysScoop the Snowman (voice)
- 2001The Education of Max BickfordMax Bickford
- 2001In Search of PeaceYitzhak Rabin (voice)
- 2001Who Is Cletis Tout?Micah Donnelly
- 2001The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'Self
- 2001The Old Man Who Read Love StoriesAntonio Bolivar
- 2000Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by MeSelf
- 2000The CrewBobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
- 2000Fail SafePresident
- 1999Where Are They Now?Self
- 1999LanskyMeyer Lansky
- 1999Family GuyRichard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
- 1998Lost at Sea: The Search for LongitudeNarrator
- 1998The Making of 'American Graffiti'Self
- 1998Krippendorf's TribeProf. Krippendorf
- 1998The Entertainment BizSelf
- 1997The Wonderful World of Disney
- 1997The ViewSelf
- 1997The Call of the Wild: Dog of the YukonNarrator (voice)
- 1997Frank Capra's American DreamSelf
- 1997Oliver TwistFagin
- 1997HARDtalk
- 1997Night Falls on ManhattanSam Vigoda
- 1997Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest LadySelf
- 1997Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet HeroSelf
- 1997In the Teeth of JawsSelf
- 1996Mad Dog TimeVic
- 1996The Daily ShowSelf
- 1996The Rosie O'Donnell ShowSelf - Guest
- 1996The Universal StorySelf
- 1996James and the Giant PeachCentipede (voice)
- 1996TFI Friday
- 1995Mr. Holland's OpusGlenn Holland
- 1995The Making of 'Jaws'Self
- 1995The American PresidentSenator Rumson
- 1995The Frank Skinner ShowSelf
- 1995The Last WordLarry
- 1995Present Tense, Past PerfectDirector
- 1994Silent FallDr. Jake Rainer
- 1994It's Alive: The True Story of FrankensteinSelf
- 1994Quiz ShowExecutive Producer
- 1994Inside the Actors StudioSelf
- 1993Another StakeoutDet. Chris Lecce
- 1993Lost in YonkersLouie Kurnitz
- 1992LincolnWilliam Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
- 1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- 1992Shelley Duvall's Bedtime StoriesNarrator (voice)
- 1991Prisoner of HonorCol. Picquart
- 1991What About Bob?Dr. Leo Marvin
- 1991Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are DeadThe Player
- 1991Once AroundSam Sharpe
- 1990Postcards from the EdgeDr. Frankenthal
- 1990American Chroniclesnarrator
- 1989AlwaysPete Sandich
- 1989Let It RideJay Trotter
- 1988Moon Over ParadorJack Noah
- 1987NutsAaron Levinsky
- 1987Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional VaudevilleSelf
- 1987StakeoutDet. Chris Lecce
- 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful LifeSelf
- 1987Tin MenBill 'BB' Babowsky
- 1987Citizen SteveJedediah
- 1986Stand by MeThe Writer
- 1986Down and Out in Beverly HillsDave Whiteman
- 1986An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1985Night of 100 Stars IISelf
- 1984The Buddy SystemJoe
- 1981Whose Life Is It Anyway?Ken Harrison
- 1980The CompetitionPaul Dietrich
- 1978The Big FixMoses Wine
- 1977Close Encounters of the Third KindRoy Neary
- 1977The Goodbye GirlElliot Garfield
- 1977The SentinelMan on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
- 1977The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'Self
- 1977The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
- 1976Victory at EntebbeColonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
- 1975Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host
- 1975JawsHooper
- 1975InsertsBoy Wonder
- 1974New England Our WaySelf
- 1974The Second Coming of SuzanneClavius
- 1974The Apprenticeship of Duddy KravitzDuddy
- 1973MeGreg
- 1973American GraffitiCurt Henderson
- 1973DillingerBaby Face Nelson
- 1973Catch-22Yossarian
- 1973A Touch of Grace
- 1972The Shadow of a GunmanTommy Owen
- 1972Two for the MoneyMorris Gap
- 1971The New Dick Van Dyke ShowTony Injijikian
- 1971Great PerformancesSelf
- 1970TreffpunkteSelf
- 1969The New People
- 1969Room 222
- 1969Hello Down ThereHarold Webster
- 1968The Mod Squad
- 1968The Young RunawaysTerry
- 1967Valley of the DollsAssistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
- 1967The GraduateBoarding House Resident (uncredited)
- 1967Judd, for the Defense
- 1967The Second Hundred YearsBen Jr.
- 1966Occasional Wife
- 1966Felony Squad
- 1966Hey Landlord!
- 1966That Girl
- 1965Gidget
- 1965The Big ValleyLud
- 1964KarenDavid Rowe III
- 1964Bewitched
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf
- 1961The Mike Douglas ShowSelf
- 1961Ben Casey
- 1955GunsmokeGearshon Gorofsky
- 1953The OscarsSelf
- —I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with WarSelf
- —Killing Winston JonesWinston Jones
- —Ocean of FearNarrator (voice)
- —Happiness Isn't EverythingJerry Hamburger
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