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. 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.
187 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 187
Family Guy
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Daily Show
1996
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Bewitched
1964
The View
1997
Weeds
2005
Great Performances
1971
Parenthood
2010
Ben Casey
1961
The Big Valley
1965
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
That Girl
1966
Stars in the House
2020
Gunsmoke
1955
The Oscars
1953
Bubble Guppies
2011
The Reichen Show
2005
Room 222
1969
Jaws
1975
The Mod Squad
1968
Felony Squad
1966
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Stand by Me
1986
Where Are They Now?
1999
RED
2010
The Goodbye Girl
1977
Polar
2019
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
Piranha 3D
2010
Gidget
1965
The Graduate
1967
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
Shots Fired
2017
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
The Second Hundred Years
1967
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
Poseidon
2006
Tin Man
2007
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
Occasional Wife
1966
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
HARDtalk
1997
Coma
2012
Hey Landlord!
1966
Postcards from the Edge
1990
American Graffiti
1973
The Entertainment Biz
1998
Always
1989
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Spielberg
2017
Stakeout
1987
The American President
1995
What About Bob?
1991
The New People
1969
Your Family or Mine
2015
Paranoia
2013
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
W.
2008
Treffpunkte
1970
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
Daughter of the Wolf
2019
Into the Deep
2025
Madoff
2016
The Sentinel
1977
Book Club
2018
Another Stakeout
1993
My Life in Ruins
2009
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Tin Men
1987
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Zipper
2015
Asher
2018
Karen
1964
Very Good Girls
2013
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
Mad Dog Time
1996
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
Let It Ride
1989
Valley of the Dolls
1967
Dillinger
1973
Fail Safe
2000
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
Crime Story
2021
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Lansky
1999
Milius
2013
Silent Fall
1994
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
Audrey
2020
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
Leaves of Grass
2009
Every Last One of Them
2021
American Chronicles
1990
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
The Crew
2000
Casting By
2012
Nuts
1987
Sweetwater
2023
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
Hello Down There
1969
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
The Big Fix
1978
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
Silver City
2004
The Universal Story
1996
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
Moon Over Parador
1988
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
A Touch of Grace
1973
The Last Laugh
2019
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
Squatters
2014
Commitment to Life
2023
Victory at Entebbe
1976
Cas & Dylan
2013
Lincoln
1992
Oliver Twist
1997
Bayou Caviar
2018
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
The Competition
1980
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
Coast to Coast
2004
Inserts
1975
Happiness Isn't Everything
—
Waltzing with Brando
2025
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000
Lost in Yonkers
1993
Two for the Money
1972
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
In Search of Peace
2001
Citizen Steve
1987
Astronaut
2019
Ocean of Fear
—
Once Around
1991
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
Me
1973
The Lightkeepers
2009
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
Catch-22
1973
Prisoner of Honor
1991
The John Garfield Story
2003
The Young Runaways
1968
The Last Word
1995
The Buddy System
1984
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
—
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974
Save Christmas
2022
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998
Killing Winston Jones
—
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010
The Johnstown Flood
2003
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997
New England Our Way
1974
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
Caserta Palace Dream
2014
The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011
America Betrayed
2008
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977
Ocean of Fear
2007
The Dish on Dolls
2006
Jaws Toy Movie
2020