Acting credits
181
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Richard Dreyfuss
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
3.1
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Movies: 133Series: 49Crew 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: 6.37
Wikidata: Q181799
Also known as
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss
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.
Photos
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Richard Dreyfuss.
Waltzing with Brando
as Seymour Kraft
2025 Movie
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self
2025 Movie
Into the Deep
as Seamus
2025 Movie
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
as Self
2023 Movie
Sweetwater
as Maurice Podoloff
2023 Movie
Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)
2023 Movie
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
as Narrator (voice)
2022 Movie
Save Christmas
as Santa
2022 Movie
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar
2022 Movie
Every Last One of Them
as Murphy
2021 Movie
Crime Story
as Ben Myers
2021 Movie
Audrey
as Self - Actor
2020 Movie
Astronaut
as Angus
2019 Movie
Daughter of the Wolf
as Father
2019 Movie
Polar
as Porter
2019 Movie
The Last Laugh
as Buddy Green
2019 Movie
Asher
as Avi
2018 Movie
Bayou Caviar
as Yuri
2018 Movie
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
as Self
2018 Movie
Book Club
as George
2018 Movie
Spielberg
as Self
2017 Movie
Zipper
as George Hiller
2015 Movie
Squatters
as David Silverman
2014 Movie
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
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
as Self • 1 eps
2018 Series
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2018 Series
Shots Fired
as Arlen Cox • 10 eps
2017 Series
Madoff
as Bernie Madoff • 4 eps
2016 Series
Your Family or Mine
as Louis • 10 eps
2015 Series
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Self • 2 eps
2014 Series
Coma
as Professor Hillside • 2 eps
2012 Series
Bubble Guppies
as Captain Acrab • 1 eps
2011 Series
Parenthood
as Gilliam T. Blount • 4 eps
2010 Series
Tin Man
as Mystic Man • 3 eps
2007 Series
Weeds
as Warren Schiff • 4 eps
2005 Series
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
as Voice of Theodore Roosevelt • 2 eps
2003 Series
The Education of Max Bickford
as Max Bickford • 22 eps
2001 Series
Family Guy
as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) • 1 eps
1999 Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
1 eps
1997 Series
The View
as Self • 2 eps
1997 Series
HARDtalk
1 eps
1997 Series
E! True Hollywood Story
as Self • 1 eps
1996 Series
The Daily Show
as Self • 1 eps
1996 Series
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1996 Series
TFI Friday
1 eps
1996 Series
The Frank Skinner Show
as Self • 1 eps
1995 Series
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self • 1 eps
1994 Series