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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Waltzing with Brando
Character: Seymour Kraft
MOVIE • 2025
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2025
Into the Deep
Character: Seamus
MOVIE • 2025
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2023
Sweetwater
Character: Maurice Podoloff
MOVIE • 2023
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Character: Narrator (voice)
MOVIE • 2022
Save Christmas
Character: Santa
MOVIE • 2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
Character: Edgar
MOVIE • 2022
Every Last One of Them
Character: Murphy
MOVIE • 2021
Crime Story
Character: Ben Myers
MOVIE • 2021
Audrey
Character: Self - Actor
MOVIE • 2020
Stars in the House
Character: Self
TV • 2020
Astronaut
Character: Angus
MOVIE • 2019
Daughter of the Wolf
Character: Father
MOVIE • 2019
Polar
Character: Porter
MOVIE • 2019
The Last Laugh
Character: Buddy Green
MOVIE • 2019
Asher
Character: Avi
MOVIE • 2018
Bayou Caviar
Character: Yuri
MOVIE • 2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Character: Self
TV • 2018
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2018
Crew
Crew Credits
Murder at Yellowstone City
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2022
Every Last One of Them
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2021
Crime Story
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2021
Astronaut
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 2019
Oliver Twist
Role: Co-Producer
MOVIE • 1997
Present Tense, Past Perfect
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1995
Quiz Show
Role: Executive Producer
MOVIE • 1994
Once Around
Role: Co-Producer
MOVIE • 1991
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1987
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 1987
The Big Fix
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 1978