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 |