Richard Dreyfuss

An American actor best known for starring in a number of 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. Dreyfuss 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.

Cast

Stand by Me

(The Writer)

Poseidon

(Richard Nelson)

Jaws

(Hooper)

Mr. Holland's Opus

(Glenn Holland)

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony

(Narrator (voice))

W.

(Dick Cheney)

James and the Giant Peach

(Centipede (voice))

American Graffiti

(Curt Henderson)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

(Roy Neary)

What About Bob?

(Dr. Leo Marvin)

It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein

(Self)

Tin Men

(Bill 'BB' Babowsky)

Stakeout

(Det. Chris Lecce)

Always

(Pete Sandich)

Victory at Entebbe

(Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu)

Fail Safe

(President)

My Life in Ruins

(Irv Gideon)

Catch-22

(Yossarian)

Postcards from the Edge

(Dr. Frankenthal)

Krippendorf's Tribe

(Prof. Krippendorf)

Waltzing with Brando

(Seymour Kraft)

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

(Ken Harrison)

Inserts

(Boy Wonder)

Another Stakeout

(Det. Chris Lecce)

The American President

(Senator Rumson)

Who Is Cletis Tout?

(Micah Donnelly)

Leaves of Grass

(Pug Rothbaum)

Moon Over Parador

(Jack Noah)

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

(Dave Whiteman)

Citizen Steve

(Jedediah)

Lost in Yonkers

(Louie Kurnitz)

Dillinger

(Baby Face Nelson)

Nuts

(Aaron Levinsky)

The Competition

(Paul Dietrich)

The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'

(Self)

The Big Fix

(Moses Wine)

Hello Down There

(Harold Webster)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

(Duddy)

The Goodbye Girl

(Elliot Garfield)

Piranha 3D

(Matthew Boyd)

The Buddy System

(Joe)

Night Falls on Manhattan

(Sam Vigoda)

RED

(Alexander Dunning)

Mad Dog Time

(Vic)

Once Around

(Sam Sharpe)

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

(Self)

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Oliver Twist

(Fagin)

Silent Fall

(Dr. Jake Rainer)

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life

(Self)

The Sentinel

(Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited))

Silver City

(Chuck Raven)

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

(The Player)

The Lightkeepers

(Seth)

Let It Ride

(Jay Trotter)

The Day Reagan Was Shot

(Alexander Haig)

The Crew

(Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator)

Very Good Girls

(Danny)

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

(Narrator (voice))

Lansky

(Meyer Lansky)

The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"

(Self)

Frank Capra's American Dream

(Self)

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

(Self - Actor)

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion

(Theodore Roosevelt)

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me

(Self)

Paranoia

(Frank Cassidy)

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

(Narrator)

In the Teeth of Jaws

(Self)

Cas & Dylan

(Dr. Cas Pepper)

The Two Million Year Old Boy

(Narrator)

Murder at Yellowstone City

(Edgar)

Prisoner of Honor

(Col. Picquart)

Sweetwater

(Maurice Podoloff)

The Young Runaways

(Terry)

The Second Coming of Suzanne

(Clavius)

Waking Sleeping Beauty

(David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage))

Squatters

(David Silverman)

Coast to Coast

(Barnaby Pierce)

Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady

(Self)

The Shadow of a Gunman

(Tommy Owen)

The Graduate

(Boarding House Resident (uncredited))

The Making of 'Jaws'

(Self)

Audrey

(Self - Actor)

The Last Word

(Larry)

Zipper

(George Hiller)

Milius

(Self)

Me

(Greg)

Caserta Palace Dream

(Luigi Vanvitelli)

Save Christmas

(Santa)

The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play

Valley of the Dolls

(Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited))

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

(Self)

Night of 100 Stars II

(Self)

Jaws: The Inside Story

(Self)

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War

(Self)

America Betrayed

(Narrator)

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

(Self)

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky

(Self)

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

(Self)

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

(Narrator)

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

(Self)

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

(Self)

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

(Self)

Spielberg

(Self)

Book Club

(George)

Bayou Caviar

(Yuri)

Asher

(Avi)

The Universal Story

(Self)

Ocean of Fear

(Narrator)

The Last Laugh

(Buddy Green)

Polar

(Porter)

Daughter of the Wolf

(Father)

Astronaut

(Angus)

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

(Self)

And the Oscar Goes To...

(Self (archive footage))

New England Our Way

(Self)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys

(Scoop the Snowman (voice))

The Johnstown Flood

(narrator)

R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

(Self)

In Search of Peace

(Yitzhak Rabin (voice))

The John Garfield Story

(Self)

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

(Self)

Manassas: End of Innocence

(Narrator)

Every Last One of Them

(Murphy)

Crime Story

(Ben Myers)

Two for the Money

(Morris Gap)

Casting By

(Self)

Lincoln

(William Tecumsah Sherman (voice))

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

(Self)

Into the Deep

(Seamus)

Weeds

(Warren Schiff)

Inside the Actors Studio

(Self)

Family Guy

(Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice))

Gidget

The Daily Show

(Self)

That Girl

The View

(Self)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Room 222

The Mod Squad

Gunsmoke

(Gearshon Gorofsky)

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

(Self - Guest)

Bewitched

Felony Squad

The Education of Max Bickford

(Max Bickford)

Karen

(David Rowe III)

Hey Landlord!

Tin Man

(Mystic Man)

Judd for the Defense

The New People

Occasional Wife

Ben Casey

The Frank Skinner Show

(Self)

The Wonderful World of Disney

Where Are They Now?

(Self)

The Oscars

(Self)

A Touch of Grace

Saturday Night Live

(Self - Host)

Shots Fired

(Arlen Cox)

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

(Self)

Your Family or Mine

(Louis)

Coma

(Professor Hillside)

Family Guy

(Richard Dreyfuss (voice))

Madoff

(Bernie Madoff)

Ocean of Fear

(Narrator (voice))

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

(Self)

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

(Self - Guest)

The Reichen Show

(Self)

The Big Valley

(Lud)

Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories

(Narrator (Voice))

Happiness Isn't Everything

(Jerry Hamburger)

Stars in the House

(Self)

The Real History of Science Fiction

(Self)

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

(Self)

Parenthood

(Gilliam T. Blount)

Treffpunkte

(Self)

Bubble Guppies

(Captain Acrab)

Great Performances

(Self)

The Mike Douglas Show

(Self)