Richard Dreyfuss
Age: 76 | From: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1947-10-29 22:34:05
Aliases: Richard Stephen Dreyfuss
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 91
TV Involvements: 14
Most Famous Work
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Dreyfuss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Jaws
(1975) Matt Hooper
Gunsmoke
(1955) Gearshon Gorofsky
Where Are They Now?
(1999) Self
The Oscars
(1953) Self
Stand by Me
(1986) The Writer
Polar
(2019) Porter
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(1977) Roy Neary
James and the Giant Peach
(1996) Centipede (voice)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Self | |
| Maurice Podoloff | ||
| 2022 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Santa | ||
| Edgar | ||
| 2021 | Murphy | |
| Ben Myers | ||
| 2020 | Self | |
| 2019 | Angus | |
| Father | ||
| Porter | ||
| Buddy Green | ||
| 2018 | Avi | |
| Yuri | ||
| Self | ||
| George | ||
| Self | ||
| 2017 | Self | |
| Arlen Cox | ||
| 2016 | himself | |
| Bernie Madoff | ||
| 2015 | George Hiller | |
| Louis | ||
| 2014 | David Silverman | |
| Self | ||
| Luigi Vanvitelli | ||
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2013 | Dr. Cas Pepper | |
| Frank Cassidy | ||
| Self | ||
| Danny | ||
| 2012 | Self | |
| Professor Hillside | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 2010 | Alexander Dunning | |
| Matthew Boyd | ||
| Self | ||
| 2009 | Seth | |
| Pug Rothbaum | ||
| David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage) | ||
| Irv Gideon | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2008 | Dick Cheney | |
| Narrator | ||
| 2007 | Mystic Man | |
| Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2006 | Self | |
| Richard Nelson | ||
| 2005 | Self | |
| Warren Schiff | ||
| Self - Actor | ||
| 2004 | Chuck Raven | |
| Narrator | ||
| Barnaby Pierce | ||
| 2003 | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2002 | Narrator | |
| 2001 | Alexander Haig | |
| Self | ||
| Scoop the Snowman (voice) | ||
| Max Bickford | ||
| Yitzhak Rabin (voice) | ||
| Micah Donnelly | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| 2000 | Self | |
| Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator | ||
| President | ||
| 1999 | Self | |
| Meyer Lansky | ||
| Richard Dreyfuss (voice) | ||
| Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1998 | Narrator | |
| Himself | ||
| Self | ||
| Prof. Krippendorf | ||
| 1997 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Fagin | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 1996 | Vic | |
| Sam Vigoda | ||
| Self | ||
| Self - Guest | ||
| Himself | ||
| Centipede (voice) | ||
| 1995 | Glenn Holland | |
| Self | ||
| Senator Bob Rumson | ||
| Self | ||
| Larry | ||
| 1994 | Dr. Jake Rainer | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 1993 | Det. Chris Lecce | |
| Louie Kurnitz | ||
| 1992 | William Tecumsah Sherman (voice) | |
| narrator | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1991 | Col. Picquart | |
| Dr. Leo Marvin | ||
| The Player | ||
| Sam Sharpe | ||
| 1990 | Doctor Frankenthal | |
| 1989 | Pete Sandich | |
| Jay Trotter | ||
| 1988 | Self | |
| Jack Noah | ||
| 1987 | Aaron Levinsky | |
| Det. Chris Lecce | ||
| Bill 'BB' Babowsky | ||
| Jedediah | ||
| 1986 | The Writer | |
| Dave Whiteman | ||
| 1985 | Self | |
| 1984 | Joe | |
| 1981 | Ken Harrison | |
| 1980 | Paul Dietrich | |
| 1978 | Moses Wine | |
| 1977 | Roy Neary | |
| Elliot Garfield | ||
| Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited) | ||
| Self | ||
| 1976 | Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu | |
| 1975 | Self - Host / Roy Neary / Various | |
| Matt Hooper | ||
| Boy Wonder | ||
| 1974 | Himself | |
| Clavius | ||
| Duddy | ||
| 1973 | Curt Henderson | |
| Baby Face Nelson | ||
| Yossarian | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1972 | Tommy Owen | |
| Morris Gap | ||
| 1971 | Self | |
| 1970 | Self | |
| 1969 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Harold Webster | ||
| 1968 | N/A | |
| Terry | ||
| 1967 | Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited) | |
| Boarding House Resident (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1966 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1965 | N/A | |
| 1964 | David Rowe III | |
| N/A | ||
| 1962 | Self | |
| 1961 | N/A | |
| 1955 | Gearshon Gorofsky | |
| 1953 | Self | |
| Jerry Hamburger | ||
| Narrator (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| Seymour Kraft | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Executive Producer | |
| 2021 | Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Executive Producer | |
| 1997 | Co-Producer | |
| 1994 | Executive Producer | |
| 1991 | Co-Producer | |
| 1978 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |