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.
134 movies · 51 shows
Waltzing with Brando
2025·5.7
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025·7.5
Into the Deep
2025·5.9
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023·0.0
Sweetwater
2023·6.9
Commitment to Life
2023·0.0
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022·6.9
Save Christmas
2022·0.0
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022·5.5
Every Last One of Them
2021·5.2
Crime Story
2021·3.8
Audrey
2020·7.1
Astronaut
2019·6.1
Daughter of the Wolf
2019·5.5
Polar
2019·6.4
The Last Laugh
2019·5.4
Asher
2018·5.8
Bayou Caviar
2018·4.6
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018·0.0
Book Club
2018·6.2
Spielberg
2017·7.5
Zipper
2015·5.5
Squatters
2014·6.0
Caserta Palace Dream
2014·6.0
Cas & Dylan
2013·6.3
Paranoia
2013·5.7
Milius
2013·7.1
Very Good Girls
2013·5.8
Casting By
2012·6.9
The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011·0.0
RED
2010·6.7
Piranha 3D
2010·5.4
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010·7.3
The Lightkeepers
2009·5.8
Leaves of Grass
2009·6.0
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009·7.2
My Life in Ruins
2009·6.1
The Shark Is Still Working
2009·7.3
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009·6.9
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009·0.0
W.
2008·6.1
America Betrayed
2008·6.0
Ocean of Fear
2007·0.0
Spielberg on Spielberg
2007·7.5
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007·6.7
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007·6.0
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006·6.5
The Dish on Dolls
2006·0.0
Poseidon
2006·5.9
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005·7.7
Silver City
2004·6.1
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004·7.6
Coast to Coast
2004·7.0
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003·6.0
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003·7.1
The John Garfield Story
2003·8.4
The Johnstown Flood
2003·7.5
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002·8.0
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001·6.5
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001·6.7
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001·5.9
In Search of Peace
2001·7.0
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001·5.9
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001·7.1
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001·6.7
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000·7.6
The Crew
2000·5.4
Fail Safe
2000·6.9
Lansky
1999·5.5
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998·8.0
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998·7.8
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998·4.6
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997·7.3
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997·6.3
Oliver Twist
1997·6.2
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997·6.3
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997·8.0
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997·7.0
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997·8.0
Mad Dog Time
1996·5.2
The Universal Story
1996·8.0
James and the Giant Peach
1996·6.6
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995·7.0
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995·6.8
The American President
1995·6.5
The Last Word
1995·3.3
Silent Fall
1994·5.3
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994·8.8
Another Stakeout
1993·5.5
Lost in Yonkers
1993·6.3
Lincoln
1992·7.3
Prisoner of Honor
1991·6.3
What About Bob?
1991·6.9
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991·6.9
Once Around
1991·6.1
Postcards from the Edge
1990·6.6
Always
1989·6.2
Let It Ride
1989·6.4
Moon Over Parador
1988·5.9
Nuts
1987·6.3
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987·8.0
Stakeout
1987·6.5
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987·6.5
Tin Men
1987·6.3
Citizen Steve
1987·6.0
Stand by Me
1986·7.8
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986·5.9
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1986·0.0
Night of 100 Stars II
1985·6.8
The Buddy System
1984·4.7
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981·7.0
The Competition
1980·6.1
The Big Fix
1978·5.8
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977·7.4
The Goodbye Girl
1977·6.9
The Sentinel
1977·6.1
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977·10.0
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977·0.0
Victory at Entebbe
1976·5.1
Jaws
1975·7.7
Inserts
1975·5.7
New England Our Way
1974·0.0
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974·3.0
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974·6.0
Me
1973·10.0
American Graffiti
1973·7.0
Dillinger
1973·6.6
Catch-22
1973·6.7
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972·8.0
Two for the Money
1972·7.5
Hello Down There
1969·5.9
The Young Runaways
1968·7.0
Valley of the Dolls
1967·6.0
The Graduate
1967·7.6