
Richard Dreyfuss
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.
Filmography

Waltzing with Brando
2025
as Seymour Kraft

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
as Self

Into the Deep
2025
as Seamus

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023
as Self

Sweetwater
2023
as Maurice Podoloff

Commitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022
as Narrator (voice)

Save Christmas
2022
as Santa

Murder at Yellowstone City
2022
as Edgar

Every Last One of Them
2021
as Murphy

Crime Story
2021
as Ben Myers

Audrey
2020
as Self - Actor

Astronaut
2019
as Angus

Daughter of the Wolf
2019
as Father

Polar
2019
as Porter

The Last Laugh
2019
as Buddy Green

Asher
2018
as Avi

Bayou Caviar
2018
as Yuri

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018
as Self

Book Club
2018
as George

Spielberg
2017
as Self

Zipper
2015
as George Hiller

Squatters
2014
as David Silverman

Caserta Palace Dream
2014
as Luigi Vanvitelli