Richard Dreyfuss
Date of birth: 1947-10-29
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Richard Stephen Dreyfuss, 리차드 드레이퓨즈, ریچارد دریفوس
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.
Movie Credits
Stand by Me
1986-08-08
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon
Poseidon
2006-05-03
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the
Jaws
1975-06-20
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995-12-29
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022-12-05
Never-before-heard trial testimony reveals shocking new details about World War II and the inner wo
W.
2008-10-17
The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his w
James and the Giant Peach
1996-04-12
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possess
American Graffiti
1973-08-11
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977-12-14
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in
What About Bob?
1991-05-17
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994-10-25
Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get
Tin Men
1987-03-06
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man ver
Stakeout
1987-08-05
Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them
Always
1989-12-22
The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love
Victory at Entebbe
1976-12-22
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Enteb
Fail Safe
2000-04-09
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclea
My Life in Ruins
2009-06-05
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag
Catch-22
1973-05-21
Bombardier Yossarian is stationed on the small island of Pianosa during World War II. In addition to
Postcards from the Edge
1990-09-14
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in w
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998-02-27
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf
Waltzing with Brando
2025-09-19
The story of how Marlon Brando plucked Bernard Judge, an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architec
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981-12-02
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, a
Inserts
1975-02-20
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s,
Another Stakeout
1993-07-22
A pair of immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lak
The American President
1995-11-17
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he w
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001-09-12
A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is gett
Leaves of Grass
2009-09-13
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to tak
Moon Over Parador
1988-09-09
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986-01-31
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant
Citizen Steve
1987-01-01
On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive r
Lost in Yonkers
1993-05-14
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their
Dillinger
1973-07-20
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of th
Nuts
1987-11-20
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared
The Competition
1980-12-03
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chanc
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977-01-01
Documentary of the making of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1977)
The Big Fix
1978-10-06
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political sm
Hello Down There
1969-06-25
Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his famil
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974-04-11
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name fo
The Goodbye Girl
1977-11-27
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are r
Piranha 3D
2010-08-20
Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents fo
The Buddy System
1984-05-04
A school truant officer uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake his residential address and subsequen
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997-03-21
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation t
RED
2010-10-13
After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassemb
Mad Dog Time
1996-11-08
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious ri
Once Around
1991-01-18
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling r
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003-03-09
The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and grip
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001-03-07
A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killi
Oliver Twist
1997-05-15
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv
Silent Fall
1994-10-28
Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with cont
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023-04-16
"Bewitched" remains beloved nearly 60 years after its debut. The series lead, Elizabeth Montgomery,
The Sentinel
1977-01-07
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual expl
Silver City
2004-09-17
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a b
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991-02-08
Two minor characters from the play "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unabl
The Lightkeepers
2009-12-18
Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001-12-09
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film sta
Let It Ride
1989-08-18
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it
The Crew
2000-08-21
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
Very Good Girls
2013-01-22
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high sc
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997-06-22
Jack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and ta
Lansky
1999-02-27
Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for som
The Shark Is Still Working
2009-05-02
After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focus
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997-01-01
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005-04-05
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003-05-27
This thorough documentary covers the life of President Theodore Roosevelt, from his birth until his
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000-08-29
A unique look at the making of Stand by Me including interviews from Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Kiefe
Paranoia
2013-08-14
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004-09-14
A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997-01-01
BBC documentary about the making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
Cas & Dylan
2013-09-17
A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadverten
The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011-01-26
A 9-year-old boy in South Africa discovers one of the greatest fossil finds of all time while taking
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022-06-24
A former slave who arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decli
Prisoner of Honor
1991-11-02
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscur
The Young Runaways
1968-09-11
Three unhappy teenagers run away from home, only to discover living on their own isn't as idyllic as
Sweetwater
2023-04-14
In 1990 Chicago, a taxi driver recounts to his passenger, a sportswriter, his life story. He reveals
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974-10-04
Jared Martin plays an aspiring film maker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009-09-05
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists
Squatters
2014-05-14
A wealthy couple from the Pacific Palisades discovers homeless young lovers have moved into their ho
Coast to Coast
2004-04-03
Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce.
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997-03-21
The story of how Audrey Hepburn survived World War II, became an award winning actress, and gave bac
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972-12-04
Is a sensitive and mysterious poet really an IRA gunman in hiding? Set in a Dublin tenement in the 1
The Graduate
1967-12-21
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995-11-28
A documentary on the making of one of the greatest films ever made, filled with trivia, interviews f
Audrey
2020-11-30
An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey H
The Last Word
1995-08-27
A journalist with solid mob connections falls for a stripper with a dark past.
Zipper
2015-08-28
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political fut
Milius
2013-03-09
The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of
Me
1973-11-28
Tomby, a challenged teenage boy, manipulates his family who cater to his every desire. Only his twin
Caserta Palace Dream
2014-03-18
The greatest dream of a unique woman, Maria, future Queen of Spain and wife of Charles King of Naple
Save Christmas
2022-12-01
Grumpy Dad dislikes Christmas while mum and kids strive to save Santa from animated villain's captiv
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977-01-01
A promotional short for The Goodbye Girl. It takes a behind the scenes look at the production, with
Valley of the Dolls
1967-12-27
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show busin
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997-03-18
Profiling the life and career of actor Henry Fonda, who starred in such film classics as "The Grapes
Night of 100 Stars II
1985-03-10
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010-06-16
Steven Spielberg takes us behind the cameras for the making of a classic movie.
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to b
America Betrayed
2008-01-01
Writer/director Leslie Carde finds her villain in the US Army Corps of Engineers, an agency whose pr
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007-06-20
10th Anniversary of the 100 greatest films as chosen by the American Film Institute.
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018-06-18
This feature length high definition documentary follows one of the Nation's most controversial yet p
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998-09-15
Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film Americ
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998-10-06
It was one of humankind's most epic quests - a technical problem so complex that it challenged the b
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009-01-16
John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Da
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987-10-12
An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. C
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001-05-08
A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
Spielberg
2017-10-05
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Stev
Book Club
2018-05-18
Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shade
Bayou Caviar
2018-10-05
Rodney is a former boxing champ who, after a deathbed visit to his trainer and mentor, is propelled
Asher
2018-12-07
Asher is a former Mossad agent turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brook
The Universal Story
1996-04-21
Richard Dreyfuss hosts a celebration of the 80 year history of Universal Studios. Founded as IMP by
Ocean of Fear
2007-07-29
Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Ever is a Movie that launched the 20th anniversary of the Discover
The Last Laugh
2019-01-11
After moving to a retirement home, restless talent manager Al reconnects with long-ago client Buddy
Polar
2019-01-25
When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going
Daughter of the Wolf
2019-06-14
Ex-military specialist Clair Hamilton returns home from her tour in the Middle East due to her fathe
Astronaut
2019-07-26
A lonely widower battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987-03-13
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
New England Our Way
1974-12-09
The program is a fascinating look some at the key people involved with JAWS before it was released.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001-10-30
When the mysterious Toy Taker grabs all of Santa's toys, it looks like the children will miss out on
The Johnstown Flood
2003-01-01
On a stormy day in May of 1889, the South Fork Dam impounding Conemaugh Lake exploded, unleashing a
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001-11-25
Mockumentary telling the never before told life story of the fictional robot R2-D2 from the Star War
In Search of Peace
2001-09-21
In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel's first two decades, offering new insights on the or
The John Garfield Story
2003-02-03
This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he d
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007-01-01
Cinematographer John A. Alonzo was one of the driving creative forces in the resurgence of expressio
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002-02-19
As the first major land battle of the American Civil War, the First Battle of Manassas, fought on Ju
Every Last One of Them
2021-10-22
Desperate to find his missing daughter, a man tracks her last known whereabouts to a small desert to
Crime Story
2021-08-13
When ex-mob boss Ben Myers is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of vengeance.
Two for the Money
1972-02-26
Two cops, who have quit the police department to become private detectives and bounty hunters, hunt
Casting By
2012-11-01
This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Ma
Lincoln
1992-12-26
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civ
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006-06-13
Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happe
Into the Deep
2025-01-23
Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025-06-20
The authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premier
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025-11-21
Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cine