Acting credits
177
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Richard Dreyfuss
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.9
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Movies: 132Series: 46Crew credits: 9
TMDB ID: 3037
IMDb ID: nm0000377
Known for: Acting
Born: October 29, 1947
Age: 78
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1953 - 2025
Years active: 73
Average TMDB rating: 6.35
Wikidata: Q181799
Also known as
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss • 리차드 드레이퓨즈 • ریچارد دریفوس
Other jobs
Executive Producer (5)Co-Producer (2)Producer (1)Writer (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Richard Dreyfuss.
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
2025 Movie
5.5
Waltzing with Brando
as Seymour Kraft
2025 Movie
7.4
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self
2025 Movie
5.8
Into the Deep
as Seamus
2025 Movie
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
as Self
2023 Movie
6.9
Sweetwater
as Maurice Podoloff
2023 Movie
6.9
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
as Narrator (voice)
2022 Movie
Save Christmas
as Santa
2022 Movie
5.4
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar
2022 Movie
5.2
Every Last One of Them
as Murphy
2021 Movie
3.8
Crime Story
as Ben Myers
2021 Movie
7.2
Audrey
as Self - Actor
2020 Movie
6.1
Astronaut
as Angus
2019 Movie
5.5
Daughter of the Wolf
as Father
2019 Movie
6.3
Polar
as Porter
2019 Movie
5.4
The Last Laugh
as Buddy Green
2019 Movie
5.8
Asher
as Avi
2018 Movie
4.7
Bayou Caviar
as Yuri
2018 Movie
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
as Self
2018 Movie
6.2
Book Club
as George
2018 Movie
7.6
Spielberg
as Self
2017 Movie
5.5
Zipper
as George Hiller
2015 Movie
6.0
Squatters
as David Silverman
2014 Movie
6.0
Caserta Palace Dream
as Luigi Vanvitelli
2014 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Richard Dreyfuss.
Stars in the House
as Self • 1 eps
2020 Series
7.5
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
as Self • 1 eps
2018 Series
7.4
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2018 Series
5.8
Shots Fired
as Arlen Cox • 10 eps
2017 Series
6.3
Madoff
as Bernie Madoff • 4 eps
2016 Series
6.5
Your Family or Mine
as Louis • 10 eps
2015 Series
7.0
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Self • 2 eps
2014 Series
6.4
Coma
as Professor Hillside • 2 eps
2012 Series
7.6
Bubble Guppies
as Captain Acrab • 1 eps
2011 Series
7.5
Parenthood
as Gilliam T. Blount • 4 eps
2010 Series
6.7
Tin Man
as Mystic Man • 3 eps
2007 Series
4.8
The Reichen Show
as Self • 1 eps
2005 Series
7.5
Weeds
as Warren Schiff • 4 eps
2005 Series
1.0
The Education of Max Bickford
as Max Bickford • 22 eps
2001 Series
7.5
Where Are They Now?
as Self • 1 eps
1999 Series
7.4
Family Guy
as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) • 1 eps
1999 Series
6.7
The Wonderful World of Disney
1 eps
1997 Series
4.3
The View
as Self • 2 eps
1997 Series
6.4
The Daily Show
as Self • 1 eps
1996 Series
3.9
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1996 Series
7.5
The Frank Skinner Show
as Self • 1 eps
1995 Series
7.5
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self • 1 eps
1994 Series
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1 eps
1992 Series
10.0
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
as Narrator (voice) • 1 eps
1992 Series