
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.
Known for

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025 • Self - (archive footage)

Waltzing with Brando
2025 • Seymour Kraft

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025 • Self

Into the Deep
2025 • Seamus

Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023 • Self

Sweetwater
2023 • Maurice Podoloff

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

Save Christmas
2022 • Santa
Full filmography

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
View movie2003 • Self

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
View movie2001 • Scoop the Snowman (voice)
Lincoln
View movie1992 • William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
View movie1977 • Self

























































































































