Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss

76 · Born: Oct 29, 1947

2021
2018
2016

Personal Details

Official Socials
Born Oct 29, 1947 Brooklyn, New York, USA
Spouse
  • Svetlana Erokhin

    ( Mar 16, 2006 to Apr 19, 2024 )
  • Janelle Lacey

    ( May 30, 1999 to Dec 31, 1969 )
  • Jeramie Rain

    ( Mar 20, 1983 to Sep 14, 1992 )
Parents
  • Geraldine Dreyfuss
  • Norman Dreyfuss
Relatives
  • Lorin Dreyfuss (Sibling)
  • Justin Dreyfuss (Niece or Nephew)
  • Natalie Dreyfuss (Niece or Nephew)

Biography

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Dreyfuss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Career

2023
Sweetwater
Sweetwater as Maurice Podoloff
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2022
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony as Narrator (voice)
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Save Christmas
Save Christmas as Santa
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Murder at Yellowstone City
Murder at Yellowstone City as Edgar
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2021
Every Last One of Them
Every Last One of Them as Murphy
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Crime Story
Crime Story as Ben Myers
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2019
The Last Laugh
The Last Laugh as Buddy Green
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Astronaut
Astronaut as Angus
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Daughter of the Wolf
Daughter of the Wolf as Father
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2018
Asher
Asher as Avi
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Book Club
Book Club as George
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Bayou Caviar
Bayou Caviar as Yuri
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2017
Shots Fired
Shots Fired as Arlen Cox
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2016
Madoff
Madoff as Bernie Madoff
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2015
Zipper
Zipper as George Hiller
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Your Family or Mine
Your Family or Mine as Louis
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2014
Squatters
Squatters as David Silverman
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2013
Very Good Girls
Very Good Girls as Danny
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Paranoia
Paranoia as Frank Cassidy
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Cas & Dylan
Cas & Dylan as Dr. Cas Pepper
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2012
Coma
Coma as Professor Hillside
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2010
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking as Doctor Frankenthal
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Piranha 3D
Piranha 3D as Matt Boyd
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RED
RED as Alexander Dunning
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Weeds
Weeds as Warren Schiff
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2009
The Lightkeepers
The Lightkeepers as Seth
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Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass as Pug Rothbaum
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My Life in Ruins
My Life in Ruins as Irv Gideon
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2008
America Betrayed
America Betrayed as Narrator
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W.
W. as Dick Cheney
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Family Guy
Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
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2007
Ocean of Fear
Ocean of Fear as Narrator
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Tin Man
Tin Man as Mystic Man
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2006
Poseidon
Poseidon as Richard Nelson
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2004
Silver City
Silver City as Chuck Raven
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Coast to Coast
Coast to Coast as Barnaby Pierce
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2003
TR: An American Lion
TR: An American Lion as Theodore Roosevelt
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2002
Manassas: End of Innocence
Manassas: End of Innocence as Narrator
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2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
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The Day Reagan Was Shot
The Day Reagan Was Shot as Alexander Haig
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Who Is Cletis Tout?
Who Is Cletis Tout? as Micah Donnelly
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
The Education of Max Bickford
The Education of Max Bickford as Max Bickford
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2000
The Crew
The Crew as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
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Fail Safe
Fail Safe as President
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1999
Lansky
Lansky as Meyer Lansky
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1998
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Krippendorf's Tribe
Krippendorf's Tribe as Prof. Krippendorf
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1997
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild as Narrator (voice)
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The Wonderful World of Disney
The Wonderful World of Disney as Fagin
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1996
Mad Dog Time
Mad Dog Time as Vic
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James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant Peach as Centipede (voice)
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Night Falls on Manhattan
Night Falls on Manhattan as Sam Vigoda
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1995
The Last Word
The Last Word as Larry
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Mr. Holland's Opus
Mr. Holland's Opus as Glenn Holland
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The American President
The American President as Senator Rumson
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1994
Silent Fall
Silent Fall as Dr. Jake Rainer
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1993
Lost in Yonkers
Lost in Yonkers as Louie Kurnitz
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Another Stakeout
Another Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
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1992
American Experience
American Experience as narrator
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1991
Prisoner of Honor
Prisoner of Honor as Col. Picquart
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What About Bob?
What About Bob? as Dr. Leo Marvin
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead as The Player
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Once Around
Once Around as Sam Sharpe
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1990
Postcards from the Edge
Postcards from the Edge as Doctor Frankenthal
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1989
Let It Ride
Let It Ride as Jay Trotter
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Always
Always as Pete Sandich
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1988
Moon Over Parador
Moon Over Parador as Jack Noah
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1987
Tin Men
Tin Men as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
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Stakeout
Stakeout as Det. Chris Lecce
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Nuts
Nuts as Aaron Levinsky
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1986
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Down and Out in Beverly Hills as Dave Whiteman
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1984
The Buddy System
The Buddy System as Joe
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1981
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Whose Life Is It Anyway? as Ken Harrison
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1980
The Competition
The Competition as Paul Dietrich
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1978
The Big Fix
The Big Fix as Moses Wine
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1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind as Roy Neary
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The Goodbye Girl
The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
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1976
Victory at Entebbe
Victory at Entebbe as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
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1975
Jaws
Jaws as Matt Hooper
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Inserts
Inserts as Boy Wonder
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1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The Second Coming of Suzanne
The Second Coming of Suzanne as Clavius
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1973
Dillinger
Dillinger as Baby Face Nelson
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American Graffiti
American Graffiti as Curt Henderson
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1972
Two for the Money
Two for the Money as Morris Gap
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Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke as Gearshon Gorofsky
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1969
Hello Down There
Hello Down There as Harold Webster
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1968
The Young Runaways
The Young Runaways as Terry
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1966
That Girl
That Girl
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1965
Bewitched
Bewitched
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1964
Karen
Karen as David Rowe III
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2020
Audrey
Audrey
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The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C
2017
Spielberg
Spielberg
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2015
Robert Shaw: Jaws, Deoch & Deora
2014
The Real History of Science Fiction
2013
Milius
Milius
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2012
Shakespeare High
Shakespeare High
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2010
Jaws: The Inside Story
2009
The Shark Is Still Working
2006
2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2003
The John Garfield Story
1998
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1997
Biography
Biography
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Frank Capra's American Dream
In the Teeth of Jaws
1996
The Universal Story
1995
1994
1988
James Stewart's Wonderful Life
1987
Great Performances
1977
Saturday Night Live