Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Oct 29, 1947 (77 years old)
Richard Dreyfuss
Known For
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. Dreyfuss 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
2025
Into the Deep
2024
Waltzing with Brando
2023
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
Sweetwater
2022
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
Save Christmas
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
2021
Every Last One of Them
2021
Crime Story
2020
Audrey
2019
Astronaut
2019
Daughter of the Wolf
2019
Polar
2019
The Last Laugh
2018
Asher
2018
Bayou Caviar
2018
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018
Book Club
2017
Spielberg
2017
Shots Fired
2016
Madoff
2015
Zipper
2015
Your Family or Mine
2014
Squatters
2014
Caserta Palace Dream
2013
Milius
2013
Very Good Girls
2012
Coma
2010
Jaws: The Inside Story
2009
My Life in Ruins
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2008
America Betrayed
2007
Tin Man
2007
Ocean of Fear
2007
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
Poseidon
2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2004
Silver City
2003
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
The Johnstown Flood
2002
Manassas: End of Innocence
2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001
The Education of Max Bickford
2001
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2000
Fail Safe
1999
Lansky
1998
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997
Oliver Twist
1997
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997
In the Teeth of Jaws
1996
The Universal Story
1995
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
The American President
1994
Silent Fall
1994
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1993
Another Stakeout
1993
Lost in Yonkers
1992
Lincoln
1991
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991
Once Around
1989
Always
1989
Let It Ride
1988
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
Stakeout
1987
Tin Men
1987
Citizen Steve
1985
Night of 100 Stars II