Biography
An American actor best known for starring in a number of 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 Miniseries categories.
Filmography
all 190
Movies 139
self 61
TV Shows 51
Narrator 9
Voice 5
Producer 4
Writer 2
Director 1
Seymour Kraft
Waltzing with Brando (2024)
Movie
Maurice Podoloff
Sweetwater (2023)
Movie
Edgar / Executive Producer
Murder at Yellowstone City (2022)
Movie
Ben Myers / Executive Producer
Crime Story (2021)
Movie
Self - Actor
Audrey (2020)
Movie
Angus / Executive Producer
Astronaut (2019)
Movie
Porter
Polar (2019)
Movie
6.19
Buddy Green
The Last Laugh (2019)
Movie
George
Book Club (2018)
Movie
Arlen Cox
Shots Fired (2017)
TV
6
Bernie Madoff
Madoff (2016)
TV
George Hiller
Zipper (2015)
Movie
6
Self - Actor and Historian
Blood and Glory: The Civil War in Color (2015)
TV
Vanvitelli
Caserta Palace Dream (2014)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
Movie
Dr. Cas Pepper
Cas & Dylan (2013)
Movie
Frank Cassidy
Paranoia (2013)
Movie
6
Professor Hillside
Coma (2012)
TV
6
Captain Acrab
Bubble Guppies (2011)
TV
5.25
Doctor Frankenthal
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (2010)
Movie
Alexander Dunning
RED (2010)
Movie
6.09
Matthew Boyd
Piranha 3D (2010)
Movie
Gilliam T. Blount
Parenthood (2010)
TV
4.86
Seth Atkins
The Lightkeepers (2009)
Movie
Pug Rothbaum
Leaves of Grass (2009)
Movie
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
Movie
Dick Cheney
W. (2008)
Movie
Mystic Man
Tin Man (2007)
TV
6
Narrator
Ocean of Fear (2007)
Movie
Richard Nelson
Poseidon (2006)
Movie
5
Warren Schiff
Weeds (2005)
TV
6.02
Self - Actor
The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
Movie
Chuck Raven
Silver City (2004)
Movie
Barnaby Pierce
Coast to Coast (2004)
Movie
Self - Host
Duel: Hamilton vs. Burr (2004)
Movie
Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion (2003)
Movie
6.83
Narrator
The Johnstown Flood (2003)
Movie
Alexander Haig
The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
Movie
Scoop the Snowman (voice)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (2001)
Movie
5.28
Max Bickford
The Education of Max Bickford (2001)
TV
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
In Search of Peace (2001)
Movie
Micah Tobias
Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
Movie
Self - Narrator
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me (2000)
Movie
Bobby Bartellemeo
The Crew (2000)
Movie
President
Fail Safe (2000)
Movie
Meyer Lansky
Lansky (1999)
Movie
Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) / Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
Family Guy (1999)
TV
6.7
Krippendorf
Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
Movie
6.36
Self - Interviewee
50 Years: The Best of Hollywood (1998)
Movie
Sam Vigoda
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
Movie
Self - Actor
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady (1997)
Movie
Self - Actor
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero (1997)
Movie
Self - Interviewee
Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)
Movie
Self - Guest
The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996)
TV
3.93
Centipede (voice)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Movie
6.89
Glenn Holland
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Movie
6
Senator Rumson
The American President (1995)
Movie
5.5
Dr. Jake Rainer
Silent Fall (1994)
Movie
Executive Producer
Quiz Show (1994)
Movie
6
Det. Chris Lecce
Another Stakeout (1993)
Movie
6.4
Louie Kurnitz
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Movie
William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
Lincoln (1992)
Movie
Narrator (Voice)
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories (1992)
TV
Col. Picquart
Prisoner of Honor (1991)
Movie
Dr. Leo Marvin
What About Bob? (1991)
Movie
7.5
Sam Sharpe
Once Around (1991)
Movie
Dr. Frankenthal
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Movie
9
Pete Sandich
Always (1989)
Movie
7.33
Jay Trotter
Let It Ride (1989)
Movie
Jack Noah
Moon Over Parador (1988)
Movie
6
Aaron Levinsky
Nuts (1987)
Movie
Self / Writer / Producer
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville (1987)
Movie
Chris Lecce
Stakeout (1987)
Movie
6.25
Jedediah
Citizen Steve (1987)
Movie
The Writer
Stand by Me (1986)
Movie
7.7
Dave Whiteman
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
Movie
6
Ken Harrison
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Movie
Paul Dietrich
The Competition (1980)
Movie
6
Moses Wine
The Big Fix (1978)
Movie
Elliot Garfield
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Movie
6
Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited)
The Sentinel (1977)
Movie
4
Self - Interviewee
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play (1977)
Movie
Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
Movie
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live (1975)
TV
6.36
Hooper
Jaws (1975)
Movie
6.03
Boy Wonder
Inserts (1975)
Movie
Greg
Me (1973)
Movie
Curt Henderson
American Graffiti (1973)
Movie
6.4
Baby Face Nelson
Dillinger (1973)
Movie
Capt. John Yossarian
Catch-22 (1973)
Movie
Tommy Owen
The Shadow of a Gunman (1972)
Movie
Morris Gap
Two for the Money (1972)
Movie
Harold Webster
Hello Down There (1969)
Movie
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Movie
8
Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
The Graduate (1967)
Movie
5.19
David Rowe III
Karen (1964)
TV
Gearshon Gorofsky
Gunsmoke (1955)
TV
6
Narrator
American Chronicles
TV
Narrator
Ocean of Fear
TV
Jerry Hamburger
Happiness Isn't Everything
TV
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Information
Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1947-10-29 (77 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States
Height165-centimeter
RelationshipsJeramie Rain (1983 - 1995)
ChildrenHarry Dreyfuss, Emily Dreyfuss, Ben Dreyfuss
SiblingsLorin Dreyfuss
CitizenshipsUnited States
ResidencesEncinitas, United States of America
Also Known AsRichard Stephen Dreyfuss, 리차드 드레이퓨즈
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Academy Award for Best Actor
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