Richard Dreyfuss
Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA — Oct 29 1947
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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…
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Richard Dreyfuss's Credits
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Family Guy
Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
Bewitched
Great Performances
Self
Weeds
Warren Schiff
Parenthood
Gilliam T. Blount
Ben Casey
The Big Valley
Lud
That Girl
The Oscars
Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
Bubble Guppies
Captain Acrab
Felony Squad
Stars in the House
Self
The Mod Squad
Gunsmoke
Gearshon Gorofsky
Judd for the Defense
Jaws
Hooper
Room 222
Where Are They Now?
Self
Stand by Me
The Writer
Gidget
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
Self - Guest
The Second Hundred Years
Ben Jr.
The Education of Max Bickford
Max Bickford
Occasional Wife
Poseidon
Richard Nelson
RED
Alexander Dunning
Polar
Porter
The Graduate
Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Shots Fired
Arlen Cox
Tin Man
Mystic Man
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Roy Neary
The Real History of Science Fiction
Self
W.
Dick Cheney
The Entertainment Biz
Self
Quiz Show
Production
The American President
Senator Rumson
Piranha 3D
Matthew Boyd
The New People
American Graffiti
Curt Henderson
James and the Giant Peach
Centipede (voice)
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Narrator (voice)
Hey Landlord!
Coma
Professor Hillside
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self
Karen
David Rowe III
Your Family or Mine
Louis
Madoff
Bernie Madoff
Audrey
Self - Actor
Paranoia
Frank Cassidy
What About Bob?
Dr. Leo Marvin
The Sentinel
Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
A Touch of Grace
Zipper
George Hiller
Always
Pete Sandich
Waking Sleeping Beauty
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
Mr. Holland's Opus
Glenn Holland
Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
Book Club
George
Spielberg
Self
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
The Player
Tin Men
Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Into the Deep
Seamus
Murder at Yellowstone City
Edgar
Leaves of Grass
Pug Rothbaum
Postcards from the Edge
Dr. Frankenthal
Let It Ride
Jay Trotter
Lansky
Meyer Lansky
Moon Over Parador
Jack Noah
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
Coast to Coast
Barnaby Pierce
Night Falls on Manhattan
Sam Vigoda
Nuts
Aaron Levinsky
Very Good Girls
Danny
Ocean of Fear
Narrator (voice)
Valley of the Dolls
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
The Crew
Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
The Last Laugh
Buddy Green
The Goodbye Girl
Elliot Garfield
Hello Down There
Harold Webster
Dillinger
Baby Face Nelson
The Big Fix
Moses Wine
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
Self
Milius
Self
Once Around
Sam Sharpe
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
Mad Dog Time
Vic
Waltzing with Brando
Seymour Kraft
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Dave Whiteman
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self
Every Last One of Them
Murphy
Citizen Steve
Jedediah
My Life in Ruins
Irv Gideon
Sweetwater
Maurice Podoloff
Silver City
Chuck Raven
Fail Safe
President
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Scoop the Snowman (voice)
Silent Fall
Dr. Jake Rainer
Another Stakeout
Det. Chris Lecce
Casting By
Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
Happiness Isn't Everything
Jerry Hamburger
Who Is Cletis Tout?
Micah Donnelly
Me
Greg
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Self
Victory at Entebbe
Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Crime Story
Ben Myers
Asher
Avi
Krippendorf's Tribe
Prof. Krippendorf
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Ken Harrison
Lincoln
William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
Self
Oliver Twist
Fagin
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Self
The Young Runaways
Terry
The Day Reagan Was Shot
Alexander Haig
The Last Word
Larry
Daughter of the Wolf
Father
Astronaut
Angus
The Universal Story
Self
The Making of 'Jaws'
Self
Prisoner of Honor
Col. Picquart
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Narrator
The Shark Is Still Working
Self
Squatters
David Silverman
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Duddy
Lost in Yonkers
Louie Kurnitz
Two for the Money
Morris Gap
The Lightkeepers
Seth
Inserts
Boy Wonder
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
Bayou Caviar
Yuri
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Self
In the Teeth of Jaws
Self
Jaws: The Inside Story
Self
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
Self - Actor
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
Narrator (voice)
The John Garfield Story
Self
Caserta Palace Dream
Luigi Vanvitelli
The Competition
Paul Dietrich
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
Self
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Clavius
New England Our Way
Self
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Antonio Bolivar
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Self
American Chronicles
narrator
The Shadow of a Gunman
Tommy Owen
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Self
The Buddy System
Joe
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
Self
Cas & Dylan
Dr. Cas Pepper
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
Theodore Roosevelt
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
Self
The Two Million Year Old Boy
Narrator
Catch-22
Yossarian
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
Self
In Search of Peace
Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
Present Tense, Past Perfect
Directing
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Narrator (voice)
Save Christmas
Santa
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
Self
Manassas: End of Innocence
Narrator
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Self
The Johnstown Flood
narrator
Killing Winston Jones
Winston Jones
The Dish on Dolls
Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Narrator
America Betrayed
Narrator
Ocean of Fear
Narrator