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Actor
Richard Dreyfuss
- Born October 29, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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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.
Known for
Jaws1975
RED2010
Stand by Me1986
Family Guy1999
Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977
The Graduate1967
Polar2019
Piranha 3D2010
Filmography
- TBAOcean of FearSeriesNarrator (voice)
- TBAI Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with WarFilmSelf
- TBAKilling Winston JonesFilmWinston Jones
- TBAHappiness Isn't EverythingSeriesJerry Hamburger
- 2025Into the DeepFilmSeamus
- 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside StoryFilmSelf
- 2025Waltzing with BrandoFilmSeymour Kraft
- 2023SweetwaterFilmMaurice Podoloff
- 2023Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched LifeFilmSelf
- 2023Commitment to LifeFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2022Murder at Yellowstone CityFilmEdgar, Executive Producer
- 2022Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost TestimonyFilmNarrator (voice)
- 2022Save ChristmasFilmSanta
- 2021Every Last One of ThemFilmMurphy, Executive Producer
- 2021Crime StoryFilmBen Myers, Executive Producer
- 2020AudreyFilmSelf - Actor
- 2020Stars in the HouseSeriesSelf
- 2019PolarFilmPorter
- 2019Daughter of the WolfFilmFather
- 2019The Last LaughFilmBuddy Green
- 2019AstronautFilmAngus, Executive Producer
- 2018Book ClubFilmGeorge
- 2018AsherFilmAvi
- 2018Bayou CaviarFilmYuri
- 2018The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To CancerSeriesSelf - Guest
- 2018Firing Line with Margaret HooverSeriesSelf
- 2018Third Party President: Citizen RockyFilmSelf
- 2017SpielbergFilmSelf
- 2017Shots FiredSeriesArlen Cox
- 2016MadoffSeriesBernie Madoff
- 2015ZipperFilmGeorge Hiller
- 2015Your Family or MineSeriesLouis
- 2014SquattersFilmDavid Silverman
- 2014The Real History of Science FictionSeriesSelf
- 2014Caserta Palace DreamFilmLuigi Vanvitelli
- 2013ParanoiaFilmFrank Cassidy
- 2013Very Good GirlsFilmDanny
- 2013MiliusFilmSelf
- 2013Cas & DylanFilmDr. Cas Pepper
- 2012ComaSeriesProfessor Hillside
- 2012Casting ByFilmSelf
- 2011Bubble GuppiesSeriesCaptain Acrab
- 2011The Two Million Year Old BoyFilmNarrator
- 2010REDFilmAlexander Dunning
- 2010Piranha 3DFilmMatthew Boyd
- 2010ParenthoodSeriesGilliam T. Blount
- 2010Waking Sleeping BeautyFilmDavid 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
- 2010Jaws: The Inside StoryFilmSelf
- 2009Leaves of GrassFilmPug Rothbaum
- 2009My Life in RuinsFilmIrv Gideon
- 2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John CazaleFilmSelf
- 2009The Shark Is Still WorkingFilmSelf
- 2009The LightkeepersFilmSeth
- 2009American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical HumanistFilmSelf
- 2008W.FilmDick Cheney
- 2008America BetrayedFilmNarrator
- 2007Tin ManSeriesMystic Man
- 2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary EditionFilmSelf
- 2007Spielberg on SpielbergFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 2007The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. AlonzoFilmSelf
- 2007Ocean of FearFilmNarrator
- 2006PoseidonFilmRichard Nelson
- 2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and BlockbustersFilmSelf
- 2006The Dish on DollsFilmAssistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
- 2005WeedsSeriesWarren Schiff
- 2005The Adventures of Errol FlynnFilmSelf - Actor
- 2005The Reichen ShowSeriesSelf
- 2004Silver CityFilmChuck Raven
- 2004A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American ZoetropeFilmNarrator
- 2004Coast to CoastFilmBarnaby Pierce
- 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved HollywoodFilmSelf
- 2003The John Garfield StoryFilmSelf
- 2003Teddy Roosevelt: An American LionFilmTheodore Roosevelt
- 2003The Johnstown FloodFilmnarrator
- 2003Teddy Roosevelt: An American LionSeriesVoice of Theodore Roosevelt
- 2002Manassas: End of InnocenceFilmNarrator
- 2001Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit ToysFilmScoop the Snowman (voice)
- 2001Who Is Cletis Tout?FilmMicah Donnelly
- 2001R2-D2: Beneath the DomeFilmSelf
- 2001The Day Reagan Was ShotFilmAlexander Haig