
Richard Dreyfuss
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. 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.
Acting (126 movies)

Stand by Me
1986

Poseidon
2006

Jaws
1975

Mr. Holland's Opus
1995

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022

W.
2008

James and the Giant Peach
1996

American Graffiti
1973

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977

What About Bob?
1991

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994

Tin Men
1987

Stakeout
1987

Always
1989

Victory at Entebbe
1976

Fail Safe
2000

My Life in Ruins
2009

Catch-22
1973

Postcards from the Edge
1990

Krippendorf's Tribe
1998

Waltzing with Brando
2025

Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981

Inserts
1975

Another Stakeout
1993

The American President
1995

Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001

Leaves of Grass
2009

Moon Over Parador
1988

Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986

Citizen Steve
1987

Lost in Yonkers
1993

Dillinger
1973

Nuts
1987

The Competition
1980

The Big Fix
1978

Hello Down There
1969

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974

The Goodbye Girl
1977

Piranha 3D
2010

The Buddy System
1984

Night Falls on Manhattan
1997

RED
2010

Mad Dog Time
1996

Once Around
1991

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001

Oliver Twist
1997

Silent Fall
1994

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023

The Sentinel
1977

Silver City
2004

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991

The Lightkeepers
2009

Let It Ride
1989

The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001

The Crew
2000

Very Good Girls
2013

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997

Lansky
1999

The Shark Is Still Working
2009

Frank Capra's American Dream
1997

The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000

Paranoia
2013

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004

In the Teeth of Jaws
1997

Cas & Dylan
2013

The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011

Murder at Yellowstone City
2022

Prisoner of Honor
1991

Sweetwater
2023

The Young Runaways
1968

The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974

Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009

Squatters
2014

Coast to Coast
2004

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997

The Shadow of a Gunman
1972

The Graduate
1967

The Making of 'Jaws'
1995

Audrey
2020

The Last Word
1995

Zipper
2015

Milius
2013

Me
1973

Caserta Palace Dream
2014

Save Christmas
2022

Valley of the Dolls
1967

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997

Night of 100 Stars II
1985

Jaws: The Inside Story
2010

America Betrayed
2008

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018

The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Big Fix | 1978 | Producer |
| Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | 1987 | Writer |
| Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | 1987 | Producer |
| Quiz Show | 1994 | Executive Producer |
| Astronaut | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Crime Story | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Every Last One of Them | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Murder at Yellowstone City | 2022 | Executive Producer |