Richard Dreyfuss

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Acting

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

• Waltzing with Brando (2025)
• Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025)
• Into the Deep (2025)
• Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life (2023)
• Sweetwater (2023)
• Commitment to Life (2023)
• Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony (2022)
• Save Christmas (2022)
• Murder at Yellowstone City (2022)
• Every Last One of Them (2021)
• Crime Story (2021)
• Audrey (2020)
• Astronaut (2019)
• Daughter of the Wolf (2019)
• Polar (2019)
• The Last Laugh (2019)
• Asher (2018)
• Bayou Caviar (2018)
• Third Party President: Citizen Rocky (2018)
• Book Club (2018)
• Spielberg (2017)
• Zipper (2015)
• Squatters (2014)
• Caserta Palace Dream (2014)
• Cas & Dylan (2013)
• Paranoia (2013)
• Milius (2013)
• Very Good Girls (2013)
• Casting By (2012)
• The Two Million Year Old Boy (2011)
• RED (2010)
• Piranha 3D (2010)
• Jaws: The Inside Story (2010)
• Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010)
• The Lightkeepers (2009)
• Leaves of Grass (2009)
• My Life in Ruins (2009)
• The Shark Is Still Working (2009)
• I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
• American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist (2009)
• W. (2008)
• America Betrayed (2008)
• Ocean of Fear (2007)
• Spielberg on Spielberg (2007)
• AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition (2007)
• The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo (2007)
• Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
• The Dish on Dolls (2006)
• Poseidon (2006)
• The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
• Silver City (2004)
• A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004)
• Coast to Coast (2004)
• Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion (2003)
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
• The John Garfield Story (2003)
• The Johnstown Flood (2003)
• Manassas: End of Innocence (2002)
• The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
• R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001)
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (2001)
• In Search of Peace (2001)
• Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
• The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (2001)
• The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
• Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me (2000)
• The Crew (2000)
• Fail Safe (2000)
• Lansky (1999)
• Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude (1998)
• The Making of 'American Graffiti' (1998)
• Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
• The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997)
• Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)
• Oliver Twist (1997)
• Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
• Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady (1997)
• Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero (1997)
• In the Teeth of Jaws (1997)
• Mad Dog Time (1996)
• The Universal Story (1996)
• James and the Giant Peach (1996)
• Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
• The Making of 'Jaws' (1995)
• The American President (1995)
• The Last Word (1995)
• Present Tense, Past Perfect (1995)
• Silent Fall (1994)
• It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (1994)
• Quiz Show (1994)
• Another Stakeout (1993)
• Lost in Yonkers (1993)
• Lincoln (1992)
• Prisoner of Honor (1991)
• What About Bob? (1991)
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1991)
• Once Around (1991)
• Postcards from the Edge (1990)
• Always (1989)
• Let It Ride (1989)
• Moon Over Parador (1988)
• Nuts (1987)
• Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville (1987)
• Stakeout (1987)
• James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
• Tin Men (1987)
• Citizen Steve (1987)
• Stand by Me (1986)
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
• An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. (1986)
• Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
• The Buddy System (1984)
• Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
• The Competition (1980)
• The Big Fix (1978)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• The Goodbye Girl (1977)
• The Sentinel (1977)
• The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' (1977)
• The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play (1977)
• Victory at Entebbe (1976)
• Jaws (1975)
• Inserts (1975)
• New England Our Way (1974)
• The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974)
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
• Me (1973)
• American Graffiti (1973)
• Dillinger (1973)
• Catch-22 (1973)
• The Shadow of a Gunman (1972)
• Two for the Money (1972)
• Hello Down There (1969)
• The Young Runaways (1968)
• Valley of the Dolls (1967)
• The Graduate (1967)
• I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
• Killing Winston Jones