Richard Dreyfuss
Born Oct 29, 1947 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
Into the Deep
2025
Waltzing with Brando
2025
Sweetwater
2023
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
Save Christmas
2022
Every Last One of Them
2021
Crime Story
2021
Polar
2019
Daughter of the Wolf
2019
The Last Laugh
2019
Astronaut
2019
Book Club
2018
Asher
2018
Bayou Caviar
2018
Shots Fired
2017
Madoff
2016
Zipper
2015
Your Family or Mine
2015
Squatters
2014
Caserta Palace Dream
2014
Paranoia
2013
Very Good Girls
2013
Cas & Dylan
2013
Coma
2012
Bubble Guppies
2011
Parenthood
2010
RED
2010
Piranha 3D
2010
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
Leaves of Grass
2009
My Life in Ruins
2009
The Lightkeepers
2009
W.
2008
America Betrayed
2008
Tin Man
2007
Ocean of Fear
2007
Poseidon
2006
The Dish on Dolls
2006
Weeds
2005
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
Silver City
2004
Coast to Coast
2004
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003
The Johnstown Flood
2003
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
In Search of Peace
2001
The Crew
2000
Fail Safe
2000
Family Guy
1999
Lansky
1999
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
HARDtalk
1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
Oliver Twist
1997
TFI Friday
1996
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Mad Dog Time
1996
The American President
1995
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
The Last Word
1995
Silent Fall
1994
Another Stakeout
1993
Lost in Yonkers
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
What About Bob?
1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
Once Around
1991
Prisoner of Honor
1991
Postcards from the Edge
1990
Always
1989
Let It Ride
1989
Moon Over Parador
1988
Stakeout
1987
Tin Men
1987
Citizen Steve
1987
Nuts
1987
Stand by Me
1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
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 Goodbye Girl
1977
The Sentinel
1977
Victory at Entebbe
1976
Jaws
1975
Inserts
1975
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
American Graffiti
1973
Catch-22
1973
A Touch of Grace
1973
Dillinger
1973
Me
1973
Two for the Money
1972
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971
Room 222
1969
The New People
1969
Hello Down There
1969
The Mod Squad
1968
The Young Runaways
1968
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The Graduate
1967
The Second Hundred Years
1967
Valley of the Dolls
1967
That Girl
1966
Felony Squad
1966
Hey Landlord!
1966
Occasional Wife
1966
The Big Valley
1965
Gidget
1965
Bewitched
1964
Karen
1964
Ben Casey
1961
Gunsmoke
1955
Killing Winston Jones