Personal Info
- Known ForActing
- GenderMale
- Birthday1947-10-29 (77 years)
- Place of BirthBrooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also Known AsRichard Stephen Dreyfuss리차드 드레이퓨즈ریچارد دریفوس
Richard Dreyfuss
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....Read More
Known For
Acting Career
- 2025
Into the Deep
As: Seamus
- 2024
Waltzing with Brando
As: Seymour Kraft
- 2023
Sweetwater
As: Maurice Podoloff
- 2022
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
As: Narrator (voice)
- 2022
Save Christmas
As: Santa
- 2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
As: Edgar
- 2021
Every Last One of Them
As: Murphy
- 2021
Crime Story
As: Ben Myers
- 2019
Astronaut
As: Angus
- 2019
Daughter of the Wolf
As: Father
- 2019
Polar
As: Porter
- 2019
The Last Laugh
As: Buddy Green
- 2018
Asher
As: Avi
- 2018
Bayou Caviar
As: Yuri
- 2018
Book Club
As: George
- 2017
Shots Fired
As: Arlen Cox
- 2016
Madoff
As: Bernie Madoff
- 2015
Zipper
As: George Hiller
- 2015
Your Family or Mine
As: Louis
- 2014
Squatters
As: David Silverman
- 2014
Caserta Palace Dream
As: Luigi Vanvitelli
- 2013
Cas & Dylan
As: Dr. Cas Pepper
- 2013
Paranoia
As: Frank Cassidy
- 2013
Very Good Girls
As: Danny
- 2012
Coma
As: Professor Hillside
- 2011
The Two Million Year Old Boy
As: Narrator
- 2011
Bubble Guppies
As: Captain Acrab
- 2010
RED
As: Alexander Dunning
- 2010
Piranha 3D
As: Matthew Boyd
- 2010
Parenthood
As: Gilliam T. Blount
- 2009
The Lightkeepers
As: Seth
- 2009
Leaves of Grass
As: Pug Rothbaum
- 2009
My Life in Ruins
As: Irv Gideon
- 2008
W.
As: Dick Cheney
- 2008
America Betrayed
As: Narrator
- 2007
Tin Man
As: Mystic Man
- 2007
Ocean of Fear
As: Narrator
- 2006
Poseidon
As: Richard Nelson
- 2005
Weeds
As: Warren Schiff
- 2004
Silver City
As: Chuck Raven
- 2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
As: Narrator
- 2004
Coast to Coast
As: Barnaby Pierce
- 2003
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
As: Theodore Roosevelt
- 2003
The Johnstown Flood
As: narrator
- 2002
Manassas: End of Innocence
As: Narrator
- 2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot
As: Alexander Haig
- 2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
As: Scoop the Snowman (voice)
- 2001
The Education of Max Bickford
As: Max Bickford
- 2001
In Search of Peace
As: Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
- 2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?
As: Micah Donnelly
- 2000
The Crew
As: Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
- 2000
Fail Safe
As: President
- 1999
Lansky
As: Meyer Lansky
- 1999
Family Guy
As: Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
- 1999
Family Guy
As: Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
- 1998
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
As: Narrator
- 1998
Krippendorf's Tribe
As: Prof. Krippendorf
- 1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
As: Narrator (voice)
- 1997
Oliver Twist
As: Fagin
- 1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
As: Sam Vigoda
- 1996
Mad Dog Time
As: Vic
- 1996
James and the Giant Peach
As: Centipede (voice)
- 1995
Mr. Holland's Opus
As: Glenn Holland
- 1995
The American President
As: Senator Rumson
- 1995
The Last Word
As: Larry
- 1994
Silent Fall
As: Dr. Jake Rainer
- 1993
Another Stakeout
As: Det. Chris Lecce
- 1993
Lost in Yonkers
As: Louie Kurnitz
- 1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
As: Narrator (Voice)
- 1991
Prisoner of Honor
As: Col. Picquart
- 1991
What About Bob?
As: Dr. Leo Marvin
- 1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
As: The Player
- 1991
Once Around
As: Sam Sharpe
- 1990
Postcards from the Edge
As: Dr. Frankenthal
- 1989
Always
As: Pete Sandich
- 1989
Let It Ride
As: Jay Trotter
- 1988
Moon Over Parador
As: Jack Noah
- 1987
Nuts
As: Aaron Levinsky
- 1987
Stakeout
As: Det. Chris Lecce
- 1987
Tin Men
As: Bill 'BB' Babowsky
- 1987
Citizen Steve
As: Jedediah
- 1986
Stand by Me
As: The Writer
- 1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
As: Dave Whiteman
- 1984
The Buddy System
As: Joe
- 1981
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
As: Ken Harrison
- 1980
The Competition
As: Paul Dietrich
- 1978
The Big Fix
As: Moses Wine
- 1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
As: Roy Neary
- 1977
The Goodbye Girl
As: Elliot Garfield
- 1977
The Sentinel
As: Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
- 1976
Victory at Entebbe
As: Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
- 1975
Jaws
As: Hooper
- 1975
Inserts
As: Boy Wonder
- 1974
The Second Coming of Suzanne
As: Clavius
- 1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
As: Duddy
- 1973
Me
As: Greg
- 1973
American Graffiti
As: Curt Henderson
- 1973
Dillinger
As: Baby Face Nelson
- 1973
Catch-22
As: Yossarian
- 1972
The Shadow of a Gunman
As: Tommy Owen
- 1972
Two for the Money
As: Morris Gap
- 1969
Hello Down There
As: Harold Webster
- 1968
The Young Runaways
As: Terry
- 1967
Valley of the Dolls
As: Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
- 1967
The Graduate
As: Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
- 1965
The Big Valley
As: Lud
- 1964
Karen
As: David Rowe III
- 1955
Gunsmoke
As: Gearshon Gorofsky