Richard Dreyfuss
Acting
Born: Oct 29, 1947
From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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. 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
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waltzing with Brando | Seymour Kraft | 2025 | 5.875 |
| Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony | Narrator (voice) | 2022 | 6.9 |
| My Life in Ruins | Irv Gideon | 2009 | 6.149 |
| Leaves of Grass | Pug Rothbaum | 2009 | 6.0 |
| W. | Dick Cheney | 2008 | 6.164 |
| Poseidon | Richard Nelson | 2006 | 5.872 |
| Who Is Cletis Tout? | Micah Donnelly | 2001 | 5.797 |
| Fail Safe | President | 2000 | 6.937 |
| Krippendorf's Tribe | Prof. Krippendorf | 1998 | 4.588 |
| James and the Giant Peach | Centipede (voice) | 1996 | 6.591 |
| Mr. Holland's Opus | Glenn Holland | 1995 | 6.975 |
| The American President | Senator Rumson | 1995 | 6.534 |
| It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | Self | 1994 | 8.8 |
| Another Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | 1993 | 5.5 |
| What About Bob? | Dr. Leo Marvin | 1991 | 6.884 |
| Postcards from the Edge | Dr. Frankenthal | 1990 | 6.619 |
| Always | Pete Sandich | 1989 | 6.236 |
| Moon Over Parador | Jack Noah | 1988 | 5.866 |
| Tin Men | Bill 'BB' Babowsky | 1987 | 6.331 |
| Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | 1987 | 6.5 |
| Citizen Steve | Jedediah | 1987 | 6.0 |
| Stand by Me | The Writer | 1986 | 7.838 |
| Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Dave Whiteman | 1986 | 5.903 |
| Whose Life Is It Anyway? | Ken Harrison | 1981 | 7.049 |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Roy Neary | 1977 | 7.35 |
| Victory at Entebbe | Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu | 1976 | 5.12 |
| Jaws | Hooper | 1975 | 7.682 |
| Inserts | Boy Wonder | 1975 | 5.717 |
| American Graffiti | Curt Henderson | 1973 | 7.041 |
| Catch-22 | Yossarian | 1973 | 6.667 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1947 |
| From | Brooklyn, New York … |