Richard Dreyfuss
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Stand by Me
as The Writer
1986
Poseidon
as Richard Nelson
2006
Jaws
as Hooper
1975
Mr. Holland's Opus
as Glenn Holland
1995
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
as Narrator (voice)
2022
W.
as Dick Cheney
2008
James and the Giant Peach
as Centipede (voice)
1996
American Graffiti
as Curt Henderson
1973
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Roy Neary
1977
What About Bob?
as Dr. Leo Marvin
1991
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
as Self
1994
Tin Men
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
1987
Stakeout
as Det. Chris Lecce
1987
Always
as Pete Sandich
1989
Victory at Entebbe
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
1976
Fail Safe
as President
2000
My Life in Ruins
as Irv Gideon
2009
Catch-22
as Yossarian
1973
Postcards from the Edge
as Dr. Frankenthal
1990
Krippendorf's Tribe
as Prof. Krippendorf
1998
TV Appearances
Weeds
as Warren Schiff
2005
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
Family Guy
as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
1999
Gidget
1965
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
That Girl
1966
The View
as Self
1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Room 222
1969
The Mod Squad
1968
Gunsmoke
as Gearshon Gorofsky
1955
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
as Self - Guest
2018