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Richard Dreyfuss
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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.
BODY OF WORK
Richard Dreyfuss's Filmography
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Waltzing with Brando
as Seymour Kraft
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self
Into the Deep
as Seamus
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
as Self
Sweetwater
as Maurice Podoloff
Commitment to Life
as Self (archive footage)
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
as Narrator (voice)
Save Christmas
as Santa
Murder at Yellowstone City
as Edgar
Every Last One of Them
as Murphy
Crime Story
as Ben Myers
Audrey
as Self - Actor
Astronaut
as Angus
Daughter of the Wolf
as Father
Polar
as Porter
The Last Laugh
as Buddy Green
Asher
as Avi
Bayou Caviar
as Yuri
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
as Self
Book Club
as George
Spielberg
as Self
Zipper
as George Hiller
Squatters
as David Silverman
Caserta Palace Dream
as Luigi Vanvitelli
Cas & Dylan
as Dr. Cas Pepper
Paranoia
as Frank Cassidy
Milius
as Self
Very Good Girls
as Danny
Casting By
as Self
The Two Million Year Old Boy
as Narrator
RED
as Alexander Dunning
Piranha 3D
as Matthew Boyd
Jaws: The Inside Story
as Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
The Lightkeepers
as Seth
Leaves of Grass
as Pug Rothbaum
My Life in Ruins
as Irv Gideon
The Shark Is Still Working
as Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
as Self
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
as Self
W.
as Dick Cheney
America Betrayed
as Narrator
Ocean of Fear
as Narrator
Spielberg on Spielberg
as Self (archive footage)
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
as Self
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
as Self
The Dish on Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
as Self - Actor
Silver City
as Chuck Raven
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
as Narrator
Coast to Coast
as Barnaby Pierce
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
as Theodore Roosevelt
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as Self
The John Garfield Story
as Self
The Johnstown Flood
as narrator
Manassas: End of Innocence
as Narrator
The Day Reagan Was Shot
as Alexander Haig
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
as Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
In Search of Peace
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Who Is Cletis Tout?
as Micah Donnelly
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
as Self
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
as Antonio Bolivar
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
as Self
The Crew
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Fail Safe
as President
Lansky
as Meyer Lansky
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
as Narrator
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
as Self
Krippendorf's Tribe
as Prof. Krippendorf
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
as Narrator (voice)
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self
Oliver Twist
as Fagin
Night Falls on Manhattan
as Sam Vigoda
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
as Self
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
as Self
In the Teeth of Jaws
as Self
Mad Dog Time
as Vic
The Universal Story
as Self
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Glenn Holland
The Making of 'Jaws'
as Self
The American President
as Senator Rumson
The Last Word
as Larry
Silent Fall
as Dr. Jake Rainer
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
as Self
Another Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
Lost in Yonkers
as Louie Kurnitz
No Poster
Lincoln
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
Prisoner of Honor
as Col. Picquart
What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
as The Player
Once Around
as Sam Sharpe
Postcards from the Edge
as Dr. Frankenthal
Always
as Pete Sandich
Let It Ride
as Jay Trotter
Moon Over Parador
as Jack Noah
Nuts
as Aaron Levinsky
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
as Self
Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self
Tin Men
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Citizen Steve
as Jedediah
Stand by Me
as The Writer
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
as Dave Whiteman
No Poster
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
The Buddy System
as Joe
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
as Ken Harrison
The Competition
as Paul Dietrich
The Big Fix
as Moses Wine
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
The Goodbye Girl
as Elliot Garfield
The Sentinel
as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
No Poster
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
No Poster
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
as Self
Victory at Entebbe
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Jaws
as Hooper
Inserts
as Boy Wonder
New England Our Way
as Self
The Second Coming of Suzanne
as Clavius
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
as Duddy
Me
as Greg
American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson
Dillinger
as Baby Face Nelson
Catch-22
as Yossarian
The Shadow of a Gunman
as Tommy Owen
Two for the Money
as Morris Gap
Hello Down There
as Harold Webster
The Young Runaways
as Terry
Valley of the Dolls
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
The Graduate
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Killing Winston Jones
as Winston Jones
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
as Self