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Richard Dreyfussborn 1947

usually

Actor

Popularity

3.3

Famous

Biography

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.

Credits

Waltzing with Brando

2024

Drama • History

as Seymour Kraft

10(1)

0.3

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life

2023

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.3

Sweetwater

2023

Drama

as Maurice Podoloff

7(22)

0.8

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony

2022

Documentary • History • TV Movie • War

as Narrator (voice)

6.6(8)

0.3

Save Christmas

2022

Comedy • Family • Fantasy

as Santa

0(0)

0.2

Murder at Yellowstone City

2022

Mystery • Western

as Edgar

5.5(80)

2.2

Audrey

2020

Documentary • History • TV Movie

as Self - Actor

7.2(57)

0.7

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky

2018

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.1

Zipper

2015

Drama • Thriller

as George Hiller

5.6(163)

0.9

Squatters

2014

Drama

as David Silverman

6(52)

0.9

Caserta Palace Dream

2014

Drama • History

as Luigi Vanvitelli

6(2)

0.1

Cas & Dylan

2013

Comedy • Drama

as Dr. Cas Pepper

6.1(23)

0.3

Paranoia

2013

Drama • Thriller

as Frank Cassidy

5.7(859)

2.4

Milius

2013

Documentary

as Self

7.1(49)

0.4

Very Good Girls

2013

Drama

as Danny

5.8(439)

1.1

The Two Million Year Old Boy

2011

Documentary

as Narrator

0(0)

RED

2010

Action • Adventure • Comedy • Crime • Thriller

as Alexander Dunning

6.7(6,816)

6.1

Piranha 3D

2010

Comedy • Horror

as Matthew Boyd

5.4(2,261)

Jaws: The Inside Story

2010

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

7.3(10)

0.2

The Lightkeepers

2009

Comedy • Drama

as Seth

6(20)

0.6

Leaves of Grass

2009

Comedy • Crime • Thriller

as Pug Rothbaum

6(425)

0.7

Waking Sleeping Beauty

2009

Documentary

as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

7.2(107)

0.9

My Life in Ruins

2009

Comedy • Romance

as Irv Gideon

6.1(419)

1.2

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

2009

Documentary

as Self

7.2(23)

0.5

2008

Drama • History

as Dick Cheney

6.2(638)

1.5

America Betrayed

2008

Documentary

as Narrator

6(1)

0.1

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

2007

Documentary

as Self

6.7(8)

0.4

Poseidon

2006

Action • Adventure • Drama • Thriller

as Richard Nelson

5.9(2,177)

4.3

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self - Actor

7.8(5)

0.3

Silver City

2004

Comedy • Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as Chuck Raven

6.1(74)

0.6

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

2004

Documentary

as Narrator

7.5(6)

0.4

Coast to Coast

2004

Drama • TV Movie

as Barnaby Pierce

7(4)

0.4

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion

2003

Documentary • History

as Theodore Roosevelt

5(2)

0.1

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

2003

Documentary • History

as Self

7.1(60)

0.6

The Day Reagan Was Shot

2001

Drama • TV Movie

as Alexander Haig

6.4(11)

0.3

Who Is Cletis Tout?

2001

Action • Comedy • Crime

as Micah Donnelly

5.9(57)

0.7

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

2001

Adventure • Drama

6.6(5)

0.3

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me

2000

Documentary

as Self

7.5(23)

0.3

The Crew

2000

Action • Comedy • Crime

as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

5.5(37)

0.6

Fail Safe

2000

Drama • TV Movie • Thriller

as President

7(81)

Lansky

1999

Crime • Drama • TV Movie

as Meyer Lansky

5.6(24)

0.7

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

1998

Documentary

as Self

7.8(9)

0.4

Krippendorf's Tribe

1998

Comedy • Family

as Prof. Krippendorf

4.6(82)

0.4

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

1997

Adventure • Drama • Family • TV Movie

as Narrator (voice)

7.4(39)

0.4

Oliver Twist

1997

Drama • Family

as Fagin

6.2(113)

0.6

Night Falls on Manhattan

1997

Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Sam Vigoda

6.3(130)

1.2

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady

1997

Documentary

as Self

8(1)

0.2

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

1997

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.1

Frank Capra's American Dream

1997

Documentary

as Self

6.2(6)

0.3

In the Teeth of Jaws

1997

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

8(2)

0.1

Mad Dog Time

1996

Action • Comedy • Crime

as Vic

5.3(45)

0.9

James and the Giant Peach

1996

Adventure • Animation • Family • Fantasy

as Centipede (voice)

6.6(1,342)

2.8

Mr. Holland's Opus

1995

Drama • Music

as Glenn Holland

7(424)

1.8

The Making of 'Jaws'

1995

Documentary

as Self

6.7(29)

0.2

The American President

1995

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Senator Rumson

6.5(735)

1.5

The Last Word

1995

Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Larry

2.5(2)

0.2

Silent Fall

1994

Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as Dr. Jake Rainer

5.2(76)

0.6

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

1994

Documentary

as Self

8.5(4)

0.2

Another Stakeout

1993

Action • Comedy • Crime

as Det. Chris Lecce

5.5(226)

0.9

Lost in Yonkers

1993

Drama

as Louie Kurnitz

6.4(43)

0.5

Prisoner of Honor

1991

Drama • History • TV Movie

as Col. Picquart

6.2(14)

0.3

What About Bob?

1991

Comedy

as Dr. Leo Marvin

6.9(839)

1.8

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

1991

Comedy • Drama

as The Player

6.9(296)

0.6

Once Around

1991

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Sam Sharpe

6.1(58)

0.4

Postcards from the Edge

1990

Comedy • Drama

as Dr. Frankenthal

6.6(276)

0.9

Always

1989

Drama • Fantasy • Romance

as Pete Sandich

6.3(615)

1.4

Let It Ride

1989

Comedy

as Jay Trotter

6.3(85)

0.7

Moon Over Parador

1988

Comedy • Romance

as Jack Noah

5.8(81)

0.5

Nuts

1987

Drama

as Aaron Levinsky

6.3(115)

1.1

Stakeout

1987

Action • Comedy • Romance

as Det. Chris Lecce

6.5(412)

1.4

Tin Men

1987

Comedy • Drama

as Bill 'BB' Babowsky

6.3(128)

1.1

Citizen Steve

1987

Comedy

as Jedediah

5.9(8)

0.2

Stand by Me

1986

Crime • Drama

as The Writer

7.9(6,059)

5.9

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

1986

Comedy

as Dave Whiteman

5.9(261)

1.1

Night of 100 Stars II

1985

Comedy • Documentary • Music • TV Movie

as Self

8(4)

0.7

The Buddy System

1984

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Joe

4.7(11)

0.3

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

1981

Drama

as Ken Harrison

7.1(45)

0.5

The Competition

1980

Drama • Music • Romance

as Paul Dietrich

6.2(19)

0.4

The Big Fix

1978

Comedy • Mystery • Thriller

as Moses Wine

5.7(36)

0.4

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

Drama • Science Fiction

as Roy Neary

7.3(4,330)

4.8

The Goodbye Girl

1977

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Elliot Garfield

6.9(172)

0.6

The Sentinel

1977

Fantasy • Horror • Mystery

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

6.1(203)

0.9

The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'

1977

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.1

The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play

1977

0(0)

0.1

Victory at Entebbe

1976

Action • Drama • History • TV Movie

as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

5.1(23)

0.5

Jaws

1975

Adventure • Horror • Thriller

as Hooper

7.7(10,744)

13.1

Inserts

1975

Comedy • Drama

as Boy Wonder

5.8(43)

0.9

The Second Coming of Suzanne

1974

Drama

as Clavius

2.6(5)

0.1

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

1974

Comedy • Drama

as Duddy

5.9(24)

0.5

1973

Comedy • Drama • TV Movie

as Greg

0(0)

0.2

American Graffiti

1973

Comedy • Drama

as Curt Henderson

7(1,481)

2.6

Dillinger

1973

Action • Crime • Drama

as Baby Face Nelson

6.6(109)

1.5

Catch-22

1973

Comedy • TV Movie • War

as Yossarian

5(2)

0.2

The Shadow of a Gunman

1972

Drama • TV Movie

as Tommy Owen

0(0)

0.1

The Young Runaways

1968

Drama

as Terry

6(3)

0.3

Valley of the Dolls

1967

Drama • Romance

as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)

6(125)

1.3

The Graduate

1967

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

7.6(3,435)

4.6

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.1

Into the Deep

2025

Action • Horror • Thriller

as Seamus

6.2(66)

1.6

Every Last One of Them

2021

Action • Thriller

as Murphy

5.4(50)

0.7

Crime Story

2021

Crime • Drama • Thriller

as Ben Myers

4(26)

0.6

Astronaut

2019

Comedy • Drama

as Angus

6.1(23)

Daughter of the Wolf

2019

Action • Thriller

as Father

5.5(327)

1.4

Polar

2019

Action • Crime • Drama

as Porter

6.3(2,284)

6.2

The Last Laugh

2019

Comedy

as Buddy Green

5.4(176)

0.5

Asher

2018

Action • Drama • Thriller

as Avi

5.8(151)

1.1

Bayou Caviar

2018

Crime • Thriller

as Yuri

4.6(38)

Book Club

2018

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as George

6.2(796)

1.9

Spielberg

2017

Documentary

as Self

7.6(290)

1.9

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self (archive footage)

7(54)

Casting By

2012

Documentary

as Self

7.1(39)

0.7

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

2009

Documentary

as Self

6.9(61)

0.6

Ocean of Fear

2007

Documentary

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

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

2007

Documentary

as Self

6(1)

0.3

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

2006

Documentary

as Self

6.5(2)

0.4

The John Garfield Story

2003

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

8(4)

0.2

The Johnstown Flood

2003

Documentary • History

as narrator

6(1)

0.1

Manassas: End of Innocence

2002

History • War

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

2001

Comedy

as Self

6.5(21)

0.5

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

2001

Animation • Family

as Scoop the Snowman (voice)

5.8(85)

0.4

In Search of Peace

2001

Documentary • History • War

as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

6.5(2)

0.3

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

2001

Documentary

as Self

6.9(8)

0.1

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

1998

Adventure • Documentary • Drama • History • TV Movie

as Narrator

9(1)

0.3

The Universal Story

1996

Documentary

as Self

7.7(3)

0.2

Lincoln

1992

Documentary

as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)

7.2(4)

0.5

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

1988

Documentary

as Self

6(1)

0.3

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

1987

Comedy • Documentary • Family

as Self

0(0)

0.2

New England Our Way

1974

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.1

Two for the Money

1972

Crime • Drama • TV Movie

as Morris Gap

0(0)

0.2

Hello Down There

1969

Comedy • Music • Science Fiction

as Harold Webster

5.9(15)

0.3