Personal Info
Birthday
October 29, 1947
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Acting
Richard Dreyfuss
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.
Acting Filmography (178)
5.7
Waltzing with Brando
Movie2025
7.5
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Movie2025
5.9
Into the Deep
Movie2025
0.0
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Movie2023
6.9
Sweetwater
Movie2023
0.0
Commitment to Life
Movie2023
6.9
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Movie2022
0.0
Save Christmas
Movie2022
5.5
Murder at Yellowstone City
Movie2022
5.2
Every Last One of Them
Movie2021
3.8
Crime Story
Movie2021
7.1
Audrey
Movie2020
0.0
Stars in the House
TV Series2020
6.1
Astronaut
Movie2019
5.5
Daughter of the Wolf
Movie2019
6.4
Polar
Movie2019
5.4
The Last Laugh
Movie2019
5.8
Asher
Movie2018
4.6
Bayou Caviar
Movie2018
8.0
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
TV Series2018
No Backdrop
0.0
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Movie2018
6.2
Book Club
Movie2018
7.1
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
TV Series2018
7.5
Spielberg
Movie2017
5.7
Shots Fired
TV Series2017
6.4
Madoff
TV Series2016
5.5
Zipper
Movie2015
6.5
Your Family or Mine
TV Series2015
6.0
Squatters
Movie2014
No Backdrop
7.0
The Real History of Science Fiction
TV Series2014
6.0
Caserta Palace Dream
Movie2014
6.3
Cas & Dylan
Movie2013
5.7
Paranoia
Movie2013
7.1
Milius
Movie2013
5.8
Very Good Girls
Movie2013
6.9
Casting By
Movie2012
No Backdrop
6.4
Coma
TV Series2012
No Backdrop
0.0
The Two Million Year Old Boy
Movie2011
7.6
Bubble Guppies
TV Series2011
6.7
RED
Movie2010
5.4
Piranha 3D
Movie2010
7.3
Jaws: The Inside Story
Movie2010
7.5
Parenthood
TV Series2010
5.8
The Lightkeepers
Movie2009
6.0
Leaves of Grass
Movie2009
7.2
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie2009
6.1
My Life in Ruins
Movie2009
7.3
The Shark Is Still Working
Movie2009
6.9
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Movie2009
No Backdrop
0.0
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Movie2009
6.1
W.
Movie2008
No Backdrop
6.0
America Betrayed
Movie2008
6.7
Tin Man
TV Series2007
No Backdrop
0.0
Ocean of Fear
Movie2007
No Backdrop
7.5
Spielberg on Spielberg
Movie2007
6.7
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Movie2007
No Backdrop
6.0
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Movie2007
No Backdrop
6.5
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
The Dish on Dolls
Movie2006
5.9
Poseidon
Movie2006
7.5
Weeds
TV Series2005
7.7
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Movie2005
6.1
Silver City
Movie2004
No Backdrop
7.6
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Movie2004
7.0
Coast to Coast
Movie2004
No Backdrop
6.0
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Movie2003
7.1
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Movie2003
8.4
The John Garfield Story
Movie2003
7.5
The Johnstown Flood
Movie2003
No Backdrop
8.0
Manassas: End of Innocence
Movie2002
6.5
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Movie2001
6.7
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Movie2001
5.9
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Movie2001
4.0
The Education of Max Bickford
TV Series2001
No Backdrop
7.0
In Search of Peace
Movie2001
5.8
Who Is Cletis Tout?
Movie2001
No Backdrop
7.1
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Movie2001
6.7
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Movie2001
No Backdrop
7.6
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Movie2000
5.4
The Crew
Movie2000
6.9
Fail Safe
Movie2000
5.6
Lansky
Movie1999
7.4
Family Guy
TV Series1999
No Backdrop
8.0
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Movie1998
7.8
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Movie1998
4.6
Krippendorf's Tribe
Movie1998
No Backdrop
6.8
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV Series1997
4.3
The View
TV Series1997
7.3
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Movie1997
No Backdrop
6.3
Frank Capra's American Dream
Movie1997
6.2
Oliver Twist
Movie1997
No Backdrop
8.7
HARDtalk
TV Series1997
6.3
Night Falls on Manhattan
Movie1997
No Backdrop
8.0
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Movie1997
No Backdrop
7.0
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Movie1997
8.0
In the Teeth of Jaws
Movie1997
5.3
Mad Dog Time
Movie1996
6.4
The Daily Show
TV Series1996
4.1
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
TV Series1996
No Backdrop
8.0
The Universal Story
Movie1996
6.6
James and the Giant Peach
Movie1996
7.0
Mr. Holland's Opus
Movie1995
6.8
The Making of 'Jaws'
Movie1995
6.5
The American President
Movie1995
No Backdrop
7.5
The Frank Skinner Show
TV Series1995
No Backdrop
3.3
The Last Word
Movie1995
5.3
Silent Fall
Movie1994
No Backdrop
8.8
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Movie1994
7.6
Inside the Actors Studio
TV Series1994
5.5
Another Stakeout
Movie1993
6.3
Lost in Yonkers
Movie1993
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV Series1992
9.5
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
TV Series1992
6.3
Prisoner of Honor
Movie1991
6.9
What About Bob?
Movie1991
6.9
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Movie1991
6.1
Once Around
Movie1991
6.6
Postcards from the Edge
Movie1990
6.2
Always
Movie1989
6.4
Let It Ride
Movie1989
5.9
Moon Over Parador
Movie1988
6.3
Nuts
Movie1987
No Backdrop
8.0
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Movie1987
6.5
Stakeout
Movie1987
6.5
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie1987
6.3
Tin Men
Movie1987
6.0
Citizen Steve
Movie1987
7.8
Stand by Me
Movie1986
5.9
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Movie1986
No Backdrop
6.8
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie1985
4.7
The Buddy System
Movie1984
7.0
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Movie1981
6.1
The Competition
Movie1980
5.8
The Big Fix
Movie1978
7.4
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Movie1977
6.9
The Goodbye Girl
Movie1977
6.1
The Sentinel
Movie1977
5.1
Victory at Entebbe
Movie1976
6.9
Saturday Night Live
TV Series1975
7.7
Jaws
Movie1975
5.7
Inserts
Movie1975
0.0
New England Our Way
Movie1974
3.0
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Movie1974
6.0
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Movie1974
10.0
Me
Movie1973
7.0
American Graffiti
Movie1973
6.6
Dillinger
Movie1973
No Backdrop
6.7
Catch-22
Movie1973
No Backdrop
6.0
A Touch of Grace
TV Series1973
No Backdrop
8.0
The Shadow of a Gunman
Movie1972
No Backdrop
7.5
Two for the Money
Movie1972
No Backdrop
5.2
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
TV Series1971
6.1
Great Performances
TV Series1971
6.2
The New People
TV Series1969
6.1
Room 222
TV Series1969
5.9
Hello Down There
Movie1969
6.1
The Mod Squad
TV Series1968
7.0
The Young Runaways
Movie1968
6.0
Valley of the Dolls
Movie1967
7.6
The Graduate
Movie1967
7.7
Judd, for the Defense
TV Series1967
No Backdrop
6.5
The Second Hundred Years
TV Series1967
No Backdrop
8.0
Occasional Wife
TV Series1966
No Backdrop
6.5
Felony Squad
TV Series1966
7.5
Hey Landlord!
TV Series1966
6.2
That Girl
TV Series1966
6.8
Gidget
TV Series1965
6.2
The Big Valley
TV Series1965
No Backdrop
5.3
Karen
TV Series1964
7.9
Bewitched
TV Series1964
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV Series1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
TV Series1961
5.9
Ben Casey
TV Series1961
6.7
Gunsmoke
TV Series1955
7.0
The Oscars
TV Series1953
No Backdrop
0.0
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
MovieN/A
No Backdrop
0.0
Killing Winston Jones
MovieN/A
No Backdrop
6.0
Ocean of Fear
TV SeriesN/A