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Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss

Acting · Directing · Production

Born October 29, 1947, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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

Appearances as themselves (54)
  • 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self
  • 2023Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)
  • 2023Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life — Self
  • 2020Audrey — Self - Actor
  • Stars in the House — Self
  • Firing Line with Margaret Hoover — Self
  • The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer — Self - Guest
  • 2018Third Party President: Citizen Rocky — Self
  • 2017Spielberg — Self
  • The Real History of Science Fiction — Self
  • 2013Milius — Self
  • 2012Casting By — Self
  • 2010Jaws: The Inside Story — Self
  • 2009American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist — Self
  • 2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale — Self
  • 2009The Shark Is Still Working — Self
  • 2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition — Self
  • 2007Spielberg on Spielberg — Self (archive footage)
  • 2007The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo — Self
  • 2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters — Self
  • 2005The Adventures of Errol Flynn — Self - Actor
  • The Reichen Show — Self
  • 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood — Self
  • 2003The John Garfield Story — Self
  • 2001R2-D2: Beneath the Dome — Self
  • 2001The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' — Self
  • 2000Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me — Self
  • Where Are They Now? — Self
  • The Entertainment Biz — Self
  • 1998The Making of 'American Graffiti' — Self
  • 1997Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady — Self
  • 1997Frank Capra's American Dream — Self
  • 1997Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero — Self
  • 1997In the Teeth of Jaws — Self
  • The View — Self
  • E! True Hollywood Story — Self
  • The Daily Show — Self
  • The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
  • 1996The Universal Story — Self
  • The Frank Skinner Show — Self
  • 1995The Making of 'Jaws' — Self
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • 1994It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein — Self
  • 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life — Self
  • 1985Night of 100 Stars II — Self
  • 1977The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
  • 1974New England Our Way — Self
  • Great Performances — Self
  • Treffpunkte — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
  • The Mike Douglas Show — Self
  • The Oscars — Self
  • I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War — Self
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