Richard Dreyfuss
Known for: Acting
Born: October 29, 1947
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…
Known for
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
American Graffiti
1973
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
Tin Men
1987
Stakeout
1987
Always
1989
Catch-22
1973
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
Inserts
1975
Another Stakeout
1993
Moon Over Parador
1988
Lost in Yonkers
1993
The Competition
1980
The Big Fix
1978
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
The Goodbye Girl
1977
The Buddy System
1984
Mad Dog Time
1996
Once Around
1991
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
Oliver Twist
1997
Silent Fall
1994
The Lightkeepers
2009
Let It Ride
1989
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
The Crew
2000
Lansky
1999
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011
Prisoner of Honor
1991
Squatters
2014
Coast to Coast
2004
Save Christmas
2022
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
America Betrayed
2008
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
The Universal Story
1996
Astronaut
2019
The Johnstown Flood
2003
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002
Crime Story
2021
The Dish on Dolls
2006
Killing Winston Jones
What About Bob?
1991
Fail Safe
2000
My Life in Ruins
2009
Nuts
1987
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
Cas & Dylan
2013
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972
Caserta Palace Dream
2014
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018
Ocean of Fear
2007
The Last Laugh
2019
Every Last One of Them
2021
Into the Deep
2025
Jaws
1975
Leaves of Grass
2009
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
Citizen Steve
1987
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974
Zipper
2015
Me
1973
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
Spielberg
2017
Bayou Caviar
2018
Asher
2018
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
Poseidon
2006
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
New England Our Way
1974
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
Spielberg on Spielberg
2007
Victory at Entebbe
1976
Postcards from the Edge
1990
Very Good Girls
2013
The Last Word
1995
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
Daughter of the Wolf
2019
Two for the Money
1972
James and the Giant Peach
1996
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
Hello Down There
1969
Silver City
2004
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
Sweetwater
2023
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
Waltzing with Brando
2025
RED
2010
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
Paranoia
2013
W.
2008
Dillinger
1973
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
The Young Runaways
1968
Audrey
2020
Milius
2013
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Book Club
2018
The John Garfield Story
2003
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
The American President
1995
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
Piranha 3D
2010
Stand by Me
1986
Polar
2019
The Graduate
1967
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
In Search of Peace
2001
The Sentinel
1977
Lincoln
1992
Casting By
2012
Valley of the Dolls
1967
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
100 Years at the Movies
1994
Commitment to Life
2023
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Weeds
2005
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Family Guy
1999
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
Gidget
1965
The Daily Show
1996
That Girl
1966
The View
1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Room 222
1969
The Mod Squad
1968
Gunsmoke
1955
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
Bewitched
1964
Felony Squad
1966
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
Karen
1964
Hey Landlord!
1966
Tin Man
2007
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The New People
1969
Occasional Wife
1966
Ben Casey
1961
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Where Are They Now?
1999
The Oscars
1953
A Touch of Grace
1973
Saturday Night Live
1975
Shots Fired
2017
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Your Family or Mine
2015
Madoff
2016
Ocean of Fear
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
The Reichen Show
2005
The Big Valley
1965
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
Happiness Isn't Everything
Stars in the House
2020
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
Parenthood
2010
Treffpunkte
1970
Bubble Guppies
2011
Great Performances
1971
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Entertainment Biz
1998
The Second Hundred Years
1967
HARDtalk
1997
American Chronicles
1990
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971
Coma
2012