Richard Dreyfuss
Acting
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.
As actor 191
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Daily Show
1996
Family Guy
1999
The View
1997
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Great Performances
1971
Bewitched
1964
Weeds
2005
Parenthood
2010
The Big Valley
1965
Room 222
1969
The Reichen Show
2005
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Bubble Guppies
2011
Gunsmoke
1955
Ben Casey
1961
That Girl
1966
Stars in the House
2020
Jaws
1975
The Oscars
1953
HARDtalk
1997
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Stand by Me
1986
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
TFI Friday
1996
Felony Squad
1966
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Where Are They Now?
1999
The Graduate
1967
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977
The Mod Squad
1968
The Frank Skinner Show
1995
RED
2010
Gidget
1965
Polar
2019
Piranha 3D
2010
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971
Tin Man
2007
Poseidon
2006
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
The Second Hundred Years
1967
James and the Giant Peach
1996
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
The Entertainment Biz
1998
Hey Landlord!
1966
American Graffiti
1973
American Chronicles
1990
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Paranoia
2013
Madoff
2016
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
The American President
1995
Your Family or Mine
2015
Always
1989
Shots Fired
2017
Daughter of the Wolf
2019
Another Stakeout
1993
My Life in Ruins
2009
Into the Deep
2025
What About Bob?
1991
Book Club
2018
Leaves of Grass
2009
Treffpunkte
1970
Occasional Wife
1966
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986
Stakeout
1987
The Sentinel
1977
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
Coma
2012
Zipper
2015
The Crew
2000
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
W.
2008
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995
Karen
1964
Lansky
1999
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
Inserts
1975
Dillinger
1973
Valley of the Dolls
1967
Postcards from the Edge
1990
The Goodbye Girl
1977
Asher
2018
Very Good Girls
2013
Tin Men
1987
Let It Ride
1989
Happiness Isn't Everything
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
The New People
1969
Audrey
2020
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
The Big Fix
1978
Silent Fall
1994
Sweetwater
2023
Spielberg
2017
A Touch of Grace
1973
Mad Dog Time
1996
Bayou Caviar
2018
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001
Fail Safe
2000
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
Crime Story
2021
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
Moon Over Parador
1988
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009
Citizen Steve
1987
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
Once Around
1991
Me
1973
Catch-22
1973
Every Last One of Them
2021
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
Casting By
2012
Victory at Entebbe
1976
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981
Commitment to Life
2023
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
The Last Laugh
2019
Silver City
2004
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
Nuts
1987
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007
Waltzing with Brando
2025
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
Oliver Twist
1997
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
Astronaut
2019
Squatters
2014
The Competition
1980
Milius
2013
The Universal Story
1996
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
Hello Down There
1969
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
Ocean of Fear
Lost in Yonkers
1993
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010
The Lightkeepers
2009
The John Garfield Story
2003
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1986
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
Killing Winston Jones
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972
The Last Word
1995
The Dish on Dolls
2006
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
Two for the Money
1972
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003
Prisoner of Honor
1991
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998
Coast to Coast
2004
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
Spielberg on Spielberg
2007
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974
New England Our Way
1974
Cas & Dylan
2013
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997
Save Christmas
2022
The Buddy System
1984
The Johnstown Flood
2003
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
The Young Runaways
1968
Ocean of Fear
2007
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977
In Search of Peace
2001
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000
Caserta Palace Dream
2014
Lincoln
1992
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998
America Betrayed
2008
