Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss

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.

On screen

  • Waltzing with Brando
  • Into the Deep
  • Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
  • Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
  • Sweetwater
  • Commitment to Life
  • Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
  • Murder at Yellowstone City
  • Save Christmas
  • Every Last One of Them
  • Crime Story
  • Audrey
  • The Last Laugh
  • Polar
  • Daughter of the Wolf
  • Astronaut
  • Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
  • Book Club
  • Bayou Caviar
  • Asher
  • Spielberg
  • Zipper
  • Squatters
  • Caserta Palace Dream
  • Very Good Girls
  • Paranoia
  • Cas & Dylan
  • Milius
  • Casting By
  • The Two Million Year Old Boy
  • Piranha 3D
  • RED
  • Jaws: The Inside Story
  • My Life in Ruins
  • Leaves of Grass
  • The Lightkeepers
  • The Shark Is Still Working
  • Waking Sleeping Beauty
  • I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
  • American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
  • W.
  • America Betrayed
  • AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
  • Ocean of Fear
  • The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
  • Spielberg on Spielberg
  • Poseidon
  • Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
  • The Dish on Dolls
  • The Adventures of Errol Flynn
  • Silver City
  • A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
  • Coast to Coast
  • Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
  • Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
  • The Johnstown Flood
  • The John Garfield Story
  • Manassas: End of Innocence
  • Who Is Cletis Tout?
  • The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
  • The Day Reagan Was Shot
  • The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
  • R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
  • In Search of Peace
  • Fail Safe
  • The Crew
  • Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
  • Lansky
  • Krippendorf's Tribe
  • The Making of 'American Graffiti'
  • Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
  • Night Falls on Manhattan
  • Oliver Twist
  • The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
  • Frank Capra's American Dream
  • In the Teeth of Jaws
  • Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
  • Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
  • James and the Giant Peach
  • Mad Dog Time
  • The Universal Story
  • Mr. Holland's Opus
  • The American President
  • The Making of 'Jaws'
  • The Last Word
  • It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
  • Silent Fall
  • Another Stakeout
  • Lost in Yonkers
  • What About Bob?
  • Once Around
  • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
  • Prisoner of Honor
  • Postcards from the Edge
  • Always
  • Let It Ride
  • Moon Over Parador
  • Tin Men
  • Stakeout
  • Citizen Steve
  • Nuts
  • Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
  • James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
  • Stand by Me
  • Down and Out in Beverly Hills
  • Night of 100 Stars II
  • The Buddy System
  • Whose Life Is It Anyway?
  • The Competition
  • The Big Fix
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • The Goodbye Girl
  • The Sentinel
  • Victory at Entebbe
  • Jaws
  • Inserts
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
  • The Second Coming of Suzanne
  • New England Our Way
  • American Graffiti
  • Catch-22
  • Dillinger
  • Me
  • The Shadow of a Gunman
  • Two for the Money
  • Hello Down There
  • The Young Runaways
  • The Graduate
  • Valley of the Dolls
  • I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
  • Killing Winston Jones

Behind the camera

  • Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville

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