
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

Me
1973 · 10.0

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992 · 9.5

HARDtalk
1997 · 8.7

Occasional Wife
1966 · 8.0
American Chronicles
1990 · 8.0

The Shadow of a Gunman
1972 · 8.0

Manassas: End of Innocence
2002 · 8.0

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998 · 8.0

Bewitched
1964 · 7.9

Stand by Me
1986 · 7.8

Judd, for the Defense
1967 · 7.7

Jaws
1975 · 7.7

The Graduate
1967 · 7.6

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004 · 7.6

Bubble Guppies
2011 · 7.5

Hey Landlord!
1966 · 7.5

The Johnstown Flood
2003 · 7.5

Two for the Money
1972 · 7.5

Parenthood
2010 · 7.5

Weeds
2005 · 7.5

Family Guy
1999 · 7.4

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · 7.3
Lincoln
1992 · 7.3

Waking Sleeping Beauty
2010 · 7.2

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997 · 7.2

TFI Friday
1996 · 7.1

American Graffiti
1973 · 7.1

The Goodbye Girl
1977 · 7.0

Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981 · 7.0

Coast to Coast
2004 · 7.0

The Young Runaways
1968 · 7.0

In Search of Peace
2001 · 7.0

Mr. Holland's Opus
1995 · 7.0

The Wonderful World of Disney
1997 · 6.9

Sweetwater
2023 · 6.9

What About Bob?
1991 · 6.9

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991 · 6.9

Fail Safe
2000 · 6.9

RED
2010 · 6.7

Gunsmoke
1955 · 6.7

Gidget
1965 · 6.7

Catch-22
1973 · 6.7

James and the Giant Peach
1996 · 6.6

Tin Man
2007 · 6.6

Postcards from the Edge
1990 · 6.6

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022 · 6.6

Dillinger
1973 · 6.6

Felony Squad
1966 · 6.5

The Second Hundred Years
1967 · 6.5

Your Family or Mine
2015 · 6.5

The American President
1995 · 6.5

Stakeout
1987 · 6.5

Polar
2019 · 6.4

Coma
2012 · 6.4

Madoff
2016 · 6.4

Night Falls on Manhattan
1997 · 6.4

Nuts
1987 · 6.4

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001 · 6.4

The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001 · 6.4

Let It Ride
1989 · 6.3

Tin Men
1987 · 6.3

Lost in Yonkers
1993 · 6.3

Cas & Dylan
2013 · 6.3

Book Club
2018 · 6.2

The Big Valley
1965 · 6.2

That Girl
1966 · 6.2

Always
1989 · 6.2

The New People
1969 · 6.2

Oliver Twist
1997 · 6.2

The Competition
1980 · 6.2

W.
2008 · 6.1

The Mod Squad
1968 · 6.1

Room 222
1969 · 6.1

The Sentinel
1977 · 6.1

My Life in Ruins
2009 · 6.1

Valley of the Dolls
1967 · 6.1

Once Around
1991 · 6.1

Silver City
2004 · 6.1

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974 · 6.1

Astronaut
2019 · 6.1

Prisoner of Honor
1991 · 6.1

Citizen Steve
1987 · 6.0

Leaves of Grass
2009 · 6.0

A Touch of Grace
1973 · 6.0

Ocean of Fear
— · 6.0

Squatters
2014 · 6.0

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003 · 6.0

Caserta Palace Dream
2014 · 6.0

America Betrayed
2008 · 6.0

Poseidon
2006 · 5.9

Ben Casey
1961 · 5.9

Into the Deep
2025 · 5.9

Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986 · 5.9

Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001 · 5.9

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001 · 5.9

Moon Over Parador
1988 · 5.9

The Big Fix
1978 · 5.9

Asher
2018 · 5.8

Hello Down There
1969 · 5.8

The Lightkeepers
2009 · 5.8

Very Good Girls
2013 · 5.8

Paranoia
2013 · 5.7

Inserts
1975 · 5.7

The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971 · 5.6

Shots Fired
2017 · 5.6

Waltzing with Brando
2025 · 5.6

Daughter of the Wolf
2019 · 5.5

Zipper
2015 · 5.5

The Crew
2000 · 5.5

Murder at Yellowstone City
2022 · 5.5

Lansky
1999 · 5.5

Piranha 3D
2010 · 5.4

Another Stakeout
1993 · 5.4

The Last Laugh
2019 · 5.4

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · 5.3

Karen
1964 · 5.3

Silent Fall
1994 · 5.3

Every Last One of Them
2021 · 5.2

Mad Dog Time
1996 · 5.2

Victory at Entebbe
1976 · 5.2

The Buddy System
1984 · 4.9

Krippendorf's Tribe
1998 · 4.6

Bayou Caviar
2018 · 4.6

The Education of Max Bickford
2001 · 4.0

Crime Story
2021 · 3.8

The Last Word
1995 · 3.2

The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974 · 3.0

Killing Winston Jones
— · 0.0
Happiness Isn't Everything
— · 0.0
An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
1986 · 0.0

The Dish on Dolls
2006 · 0.0

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003 · 0.0

Ocean of Fear
2007 · 0.0
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977 · 0.0

Save Christmas
2022 · 0.0

The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011 · 0.0