
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.
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I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
as Self

Killing Winston Jones
as Winston Jones

Ocean of Fear
as Narrator (voice)

Waltzing with Brando
as Seymour Kraft

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self

Into the Deep
as Seamus

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
as Self

Sweetwater
as Maurice Podoloff

Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
as Narrator (voice)

Save Christmas
as Santa

Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar

Crime Story
as Ben Myers

Audrey
as Self - Actor

Stars in the House
as Self

Astronaut
as Angus

Daughter of the Wolf
as Father

Polar
as Porter

The Last Laugh
as Buddy Green

Asher
as Avi

Bayou Caviar
as Yuri

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
as Self

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
as Self

Book Club
as George

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest

Spielberg
as Self

Shots Fired
as Arlen Cox

Madoff
as Bernie Madoff

Zipper
as George Hiller

Your Family or Mine
as Louis

Squatters
as David Silverman

The Real History of Science Fiction
as Self

Caserta Palace Dream
as Luigi Vanvitelli

Cas & Dylan
as Dr. Cas Pepper

Paranoia
as Frank Cassidy

Milius
as Self

Very Good Girls
as Danny

Casting By
as Self

Coma
as Professor Hillside

The Two Million Year Old Boy
as Narrator

Bubble Guppies
as Captain Acrab

RED
as Alexander Dunning

Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd

Jaws: The Inside Story
as Self

Parenthood
as Gilliam T. Blount

The Lightkeepers
as Seth

Leaves of Grass
as Pug Rothbaum

Waking Sleeping Beauty
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

My Life in Ruins
as Irv Gideon

The Shark Is Still Working
as Self

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self

American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
as Self

W.
as Dick Cheney

America Betrayed
as Narrator

Tin Man
as Mystic Man

Ocean of Fear
as Narrator

Spielberg on Spielberg
as Self (archive footage)

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
as Self

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

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self

The Dish on Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)

Poseidon
as Richard Nelson

Weeds
as Warren Schiff

The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self - Actor

Silver City
as Chuck Raven

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
as Narrator

Coast to Coast
as Barnaby Pierce

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
as Theodore Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
as Voice of Theodore Roosevelt

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

The John Garfield Story
as Self

The Johnstown Flood
as narrator

Manassas: End of Innocence
as Narrator

The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Alexander Haig

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
as Self

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)

The Education of Max Bickford
as Max Bickford

In Search of Peace
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

Who Is Cletis Tout?
as Micah Donnelly

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
as Self

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
as Antonio Bolivar

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
as Self

The Crew
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

Fail Safe
as President

Lansky
as Meyer Lansky

Family Guy
as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)

Family Guy
as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
as Narrator

The Making of 'American Graffiti'
as Self

Krippendorf's Tribe
as Prof. Krippendorf

The Wonderful World of Disney
as Unknown

The View
as Self

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
as Narrator (voice)

Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self

Oliver Twist
as Fagin

HARDtalk
as Unknown

Night Falls on Manhattan
as Sam Vigoda

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
as Self

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
as Self

In the Teeth of Jaws
as Self

Mad Dog Time
as Vic

E! True Hollywood Story
as Self

The Daily Show
as Self

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest

The Universal Story
as Self

James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)

TFI Friday
as Unknown

Mr. Holland's Opus
as Glenn Holland

The Making of 'Jaws'
as Self

The American President
as Senator Rumson

The Frank Skinner Show
as Self

The Last Word
as Larry

Silent Fall
as Dr. Jake Rainer

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
as Self

Inside the Actors Studio
as Self

Another Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce

Lost in Yonkers
as Louie Kurnitz

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Unknown

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
as Narrator (voice)

Prisoner of Honor
as Col. Picquart

What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as The Player

Once Around
as Sam Sharpe

Postcards from the Edge
as Dr. Frankenthal

Always
as Pete Sandich

Let It Ride
as Jay Trotter

Moon Over Parador
as Jack Noah

Nuts
as Aaron Levinsky

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

Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self

Tin Men
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky

Citizen Steve
as Jedediah

Stand by Me
as The Writer

Down and Out in Beverly Hills
as Dave Whiteman

Night of 100 Stars II
as Self

The Buddy System
as Joe

Whose Life Is It Anyway?
as Ken Harrison

The Competition
as Paul Dietrich

The Big Fix
as Moses Wine

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary

The Goodbye Girl
as Elliot Garfield

The Sentinel
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)

Victory at Entebbe
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host

Jaws
as Hooper

Inserts
as Boy Wonder

New England Our Way
as Self

The Second Coming of Suzanne
as Clavius

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
as Duddy

Me
as Greg

American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson

Dillinger
as Baby Face Nelson

Catch-22
as Yossarian

A Touch of Grace
as Unknown

The Shadow of a Gunman
as Tommy Owen

Two for the Money
as Morris Gap

The New Dick Van Dyke Show
as Tony Injijikian

Great Performances
as Self

The New People
as Unknown

Room 222
as Unknown

Hello Down There
as Harold Webster

The Mod Squad
as Unknown

The Young Runaways
as Terry

Valley of the Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)

The Graduate
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

Judd, for the Defense
as Unknown

The Second Hundred Years
as Ben Jr.

Occasional Wife
as Unknown

Felony Squad
as Unknown

Hey Landlord!
as Unknown

That Girl
as Unknown

Gidget
as Unknown

The Big Valley
as Lud

Karen
as David Rowe III

Bewitched
as Unknown

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self

The Mike Douglas Show
as Self

Ben Casey
as Unknown

Gunsmoke
as Gearshon Gorofsky

The Oscars
as Self
