Richard Dreyfuss

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-10-29 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Richard Dreyfuss

Biography

Richard Dreyfuss 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 Miniseri...

Acting

1986

Stand by Me

as The Writer

2006

Poseidon

as Richard Nelson

1975

Jaws

as Hooper

1995

Mr. Holland's Opus

as Glenn Holland

2008

W.

as Dick Cheney

1996

James and the Giant Peach

as Centipede (voice)

1973

American Graffiti

as Curt Henderson

1991

What About Bob?

as Dr. Leo Marvin

1987

Tin Men

as Bill 'BB' Babowsky

1987

Stakeout

as Det. Chris Lecce

1989

Always

as Pete Sandich

1976

Victory at Entebbe

as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

2000

Fail Safe

as President

2009

My Life in Ruins

as Irv Gideon

1973

Catch-22

as Yossarian

1990

Postcards from the Edge

as Dr. Frankenthal

1998

Krippendorf's Tribe

as Prof. Krippendorf

2024

Waltzing with Brando

as Seymour Kraft

1981

1975

Inserts

as Boy Wonder

1993

Another Stakeout

as Det. Chris Lecce

1995

The American President

as Senator Rumson

2001

Who Is Cletis Tout?

as Micah Donnelly

2009

Leaves of Grass

as Pug Rothbaum

1988

Moon Over Parador

as Jack Noah

1986

1987

Citizen Steve

as Jedediah

1993

Lost in Yonkers

as Louie Kurnitz

1973

Dillinger

as Baby Face Nelson

1987

Nuts

as Aaron Levinsky

1980

The Competition

as Paul Dietrich

1978

The Big Fix

as Moses Wine

1969

Hello Down There

as Harold Webster

1977

The Goodbye Girl

as Elliot Garfield

2010

Piranha 3D

as Matthew Boyd

1997

2010

RED

as Alexander Dunning

1996

1991

Once Around

as Sam Sharpe

1997

Oliver Twist

as Fagin

1994

Silent Fall

as Dr. Jake Rainer

1977

The Sentinel

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

2004

Silver City

as Chuck Raven

2009

2001

The Day Reagan Was Shot

as Alexander Haig

1989

Let It Ride

as Jay Trotter

2000

The Crew

as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

2013

1999

Lansky

as Meyer Lansky

2003

2013

Paranoia

as Frank Cassidy

2013

Cas & Dylan

as Dr. Cas Pepper

1991

Prisoner of Honor

as Col. Picquart

2023

Sweetwater

as Maurice Podoloff

1968

2009

Waking Sleeping Beauty

as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)

2014

Squatters

as David Silverman

2004

Coast to Coast

as Barnaby Pierce

1972

1967

The Graduate

as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

2020

Audrey

as Self - Actor

1995

2015

Zipper

as George Hiller

2013

Milius

as Self

1973

Me

as Greg

2014

Caserta Palace Dream

as Luigi Vanvitelli

2022

1967

Valley of the Dolls

as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)

2008

America Betrayed

as Narrator

2017

Spielberg

as Self

2018

Book Club

as George

2018

2018

Asher

as Avi

2007

Ocean of Fear

as Narrator

2019

The Last Laugh

as Buddy Green

2019

Polar

as Porter

2019

Astronaut

as Angus

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2003

2001

In Search of Peace

as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)

2021

Crime Story

as Ben Myers

1972

Two for the Money

as Morris Gap

2012

Casting By

as Self

1992

Lincoln

as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)

2025

Into the Deep

as Seamus

Production

1994

Quiz Show

as Executive Producer

2019

Astronaut

as Executive Producer

2021

Every Last One of Them

as Executive Producer

1991

Once Around

as Co-Producer

2021

Crime Story

as Executive Producer

2022

Murder at Yellowstone City

as Executive Producer

1997

Oliver Twist

as Co-Producer

1978

The Big Fix

as Producer

© All Rights Reserved 2025