
Richard Dreyfuss
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. 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 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 ForActing
- Born29 October 1947 (age 78)
- Place of BirthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Richard Dreyfuss

- Known ForActing
- Born29 October 1947 (age 78)
- Place of BirthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
KNOWN FOR
PHOTOS
CREDITS

Into the Deep
2025

Waltzing with Brando
2024

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023

Sweetwater
2023

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022

Murder at Yellowstone City
2022

Save Christmas
2022

Every Last One of Them
2021

Crime Story
2021

Audrey
2020

The Last Laugh
2019

Polar
2019

Daughter of the Wolf
2019

Astronaut
2019

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018

Book Club
2018

Bayou Caviar
2018

Asher
2018

Spielberg
2017

Zipper
2015

Squatters
2014

Caserta Palace Dream
2014

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014

Very Good Girls
2013

Paranoia
2013

Cas & Dylan
2013

Milius
2013

Casting By
2012

The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011

Piranha 3D
2010

RED
2010

Jaws: The Inside Story
2010

My Life in Ruins
2009

Leaves of Grass
2009

The Lightkeepers
2009

The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"
2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009

W.
2008

America Betrayed
2008

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007

Ocean of Fear
2007

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007

Poseidon
2006

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006

The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005

Silver City
2004

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004

Coast to Coast
2004

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003

The Johnstown Flood
2003

The John Garfield Story
2003

Manassas: End of Innocence
2002

Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001

The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001

In Search of Peace
2001

Fail Safe
2000

The Crew
2000

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000

Lansky
1999

Krippendorf's Tribe
1998

The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998

Night Falls on Manhattan
1997

Oliver Twist
1997

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997

Frank Capra's American Dream
1997

In the Teeth of Jaws
1997

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997

James and the Giant Peach
1996

Mad Dog Time
1996

The Universal Story
1996
Present Tense, Past Perfect
1995

Mr. Holland's Opus
1995

The American President
1995

The Making of 'Jaws'
1995

The Last Word
1995

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994

Silent Fall
1994

Another Stakeout
1993

Lost in Yonkers
1993
Lincoln
1992

What About Bob?
1991

Once Around
1991

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991

Prisoner of Honor
1991

Postcards from the Edge
1990

Always
1989

Let It Ride
1989

Moon Over Parador
1988

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987

Tin Men
1987

Stakeout
1987

Citizen Steve
1987

Nuts
1987

Stand by Me
1986

Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986

Night of 100 Stars II
1985

The Buddy System
1984

Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981

The Competition
1980

The Big Fix
1978

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977

The Goodbye Girl
1977

The Sentinel
1977
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977

Victory at Entebbe
1976

Jaws
1975

Inserts
1975

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974

The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974

New England Our Way
1974

American Graffiti
1973

Catch-22
1973

Dillinger
1973

Me
1973

The Shadow of a Gunman
1972

Two for the Money
1972

Hello Down There
1969

The Young Runaways
1968

The Graduate
1967
