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.
Stand by Me
The Writer
Poseidon
Richard Nelson
Jaws
Hooper
Mr. Holland's Opus
Glenn Holland
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Narrator (voice)
W.
Dick Cheney
James and the Giant Peach
Centipede (voice)
American Graffiti
Curt Henderson
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary
What About Bob?
Dr. Leo Marvin
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
Tin Men
Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
Always
Pete Sandich
Victory at Entebbe
Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Fail Safe
President
My Life in Ruins
Irv Gideon
Catch-22
Yossarian
Postcards from the Edge
Dr. Frankenthal
Krippendorf's Tribe
Prof. Krippendorf
Waltzing with Brando
Seymour Kraft
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Ken Harrison
Inserts
Boy Wonder
Another Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
The American President
Senator Rumson
Who Is Cletis Tout?
Micah Donnelly
Leaves of Grass
Pug Rothbaum
Moon Over Parador
Jack Noah
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Dave Whiteman
Citizen Steve
Jedediah
Lost in Yonkers
Louie Kurnitz
Dillinger
Baby Face Nelson
Nuts
Aaron Levinsky
The Competition
Paul Dietrich
The Big Fix
Moses Wine
Hello Down There
Harold Webster
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Duddy
The Goodbye Girl
Elliot Garfield
Piranha 3D
Matthew Boyd
The Buddy System
Joe
Night Falls on Manhattan
Sam Vigoda
RED
Alexander Dunning
Mad Dog Time
Vic
Once Around
Sam Sharpe
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Antonio Bolivar
Oliver Twist
Fagin
Silent Fall
Dr. Jake Rainer
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Self
The Sentinel
Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
Silver City
Chuck Raven
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Player
The Lightkeepers
Seth
Let It Ride
Jay Trotter
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Alexander Haig
The Crew
Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Very Good Girls
Danny
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Narrator (voice)
Lansky
Meyer Lansky
The Shark Is Still Working
Self
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self - Actor
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Theodore Roosevelt
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Self
Paranoia
Frank Cassidy
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Narrator
In the Teeth of Jaws
Self
Cas & Dylan
Dr. Cas Pepper
The Two Million Year Old Boy
Narrator
Murder at Yellowstone City
Edgar
Prisoner of Honor
Col. Picquart
Sweetwater
Maurice Podoloff
The Young Runaways
Terry
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Clavius
Waking Sleeping Beauty
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
Squatters
David Silverman
Coast to Coast
Barnaby Pierce
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Self
The Shadow of a Gunman
Tommy Owen
The Graduate
Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
The Making of 'Jaws'
Self
Audrey
Self - Actor
The Last Word
Larry
Zipper
George Hiller
Milius
Self
Me
Greg
Caserta Palace Dream
Luigi Vanvitelli
Save Christmas
Santa
Valley of the Dolls
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Jaws: The Inside Story
Self
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
America Betrayed
Narrator
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Self
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Self
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Narrator
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Self
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Self
Spielberg
Self
Book Club
George
Bayou Caviar
Yuri
Asher
Avi
The Universal Story
Self
Ocean of Fear
Narrator
The Last Laugh
Buddy Green
Polar
Porter
Daughter of the Wolf
Father
Astronaut
Angus
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
New England Our Way
Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Scoop the Snowman (voice)
The Johnstown Flood
narrator
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
In Search of Peace
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
The John Garfield Story
Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
Manassas: End of Innocence
Narrator
Every Last One of Them
Murphy
Crime Story
Ben Myers
Two for the Money
Morris Gap
Casting By
Self
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
Into the Deep
Seamus
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Self