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Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss’s screen credits include Hooper in Jaws, Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Richard Nelson in Poseidon.
Born October 29, 1947 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA3 movies on MoviHero
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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.
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- 2025Waltzing with BrandoSeymour Kraft
- 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside StorySelf
- 2025Into the DeepSeamus
- 2023Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched LifeSelf
- 2023SweetwaterMaurice Podoloff
- 2023Commitment to LifeSelf (archive footage)
- 2022Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost TestimonyNarrator (voice)
- 2022Save ChristmasSanta
- 2022Murder at Yellowstone CityProducer · Edgar
- 2021Every Last One of ThemProducer · Murphy
- 2021Crime StoryProducer · Ben Myers
- 2020AudreySelf - Actor
- 2019AstronautProducer · Angus
- 2019Daughter of the WolfFather
- 2019PolarPorter
- 2019The Last LaughBuddy Green
- 2018AsherAvi
- 2018Bayou CaviarYuri
- 2018Third Party President: Citizen RockySelf
- 2018Book ClubGeorge
- 2017SpielbergSelf
- 2015ZipperGeorge Hiller
- 2014SquattersDavid Silverman
- 2014Caserta Palace DreamLuigi Vanvitelli
- 2013Cas & DylanDr. Cas Pepper
- 2013ParanoiaFrank Cassidy
- 2013MiliusSelf
- 2013Very Good GirlsDanny
- 2012Casting BySelf
- 2011The Two Million Year Old BoyNarrator
- 2010REDAlexander Dunning
- 2010Piranha 3DMatthew Boyd
- 2010Jaws: The Inside StorySelf
- 2010Waking Sleeping BeautyDavid 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
- 2009The LightkeepersSeth
- 2009Leaves of GrassPug Rothbaum
- 2009My Life in RuinsIrv Gideon
- 2009The Shark Is Still WorkingSelf
- 2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John CazaleSelf
- 2009American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical HumanistSelf
- 2008W.Dick Cheney
- 2008America BetrayedNarrator
- 2007Ocean of FearNarrator
- 2007Spielberg on SpielbergSelf (archive footage)
- 2007AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary EditionSelf
- 2007The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. AlonzoSelf
- 2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and BlockbustersSelf
- 2006The Dish on DollsAssistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
- 2005The Adventures of Errol FlynnSelf - Actor
- 2004Silver CityChuck Raven
- 2004A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American ZoetropeNarrator
- 2004Coast to CoastBarnaby Pierce
- 2003Teddy Roosevelt: An American LionTheodore Roosevelt
- 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved HollywoodSelf
- 2003The John Garfield StorySelf
- 2003The Johnstown Floodnarrator
- 2002Manassas: End of InnocenceNarrator
- 2001The Day Reagan Was ShotAlexander Haig
- 2001R2-D2: Beneath the DomeSelf
- 2001Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit ToysScoop the Snowman (voice)
- 2001In Search of PeaceYitzhak Rabin (voice)
- 2001Who Is Cletis Tout?Micah Donnelly
- 2001The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'Self
- 2001The Old Man Who Read Love StoriesAntonio Bolivar
- 2000Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by MeSelf
- 2000The CrewBobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
- 2000Fail SafePresident
- 1999LanskyMeyer Lansky
- 1998Lost at Sea: The Search for LongitudeNarrator
- 1998The Making of 'American Graffiti'Self
- 1998Krippendorf's TribeProf. Krippendorf
- 1997The Call of the Wild: Dog of the YukonNarrator (voice)
- 1997Frank Capra's American DreamSelf
- 1997Oliver TwistProducer · Fagin
- 1997Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest LadySelf
- 1997Night Falls on ManhattanSam Vigoda
- 1997Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet HeroSelf
- 1997In the Teeth of JawsSelf
- 1996Mad Dog TimeVic
- 1996The Universal StorySelf
- 1996James and the Giant PeachCentipede (voice)
- 1995Mr. Holland's OpusGlenn Holland
- 1995The Making of 'Jaws'Self
- 1995The American PresidentSenator Rumson
- 1995The Last WordLarry
- 1995Present Tense, Past PerfectDirector
- 1994Silent FallDr. Jake Rainer
- 1994It's Alive: The True Story of FrankensteinSelf
- 1994Quiz ShowProducer
- 1993Another StakeoutDet. Chris Lecce
- 1993Lost in YonkersLouie Kurnitz
- 1992LincolnWilliam Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
- 1991Prisoner of HonorCol. Picquart
- 1991What About Bob?Dr. Leo Marvin
- 1991Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are DeadThe Player
- 1991Once AroundProducer · Sam Sharpe
- 1990Postcards from the EdgeDr. Frankenthal
- 1989AlwaysPete Sandich
- 1989Let It RideJay Trotter
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