List of performances by Richard Dreyfuss

Dreyfuss at the Kennedy Center in 1997

This article is a List of performances by Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfus is an American actor. Dreyfus won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his leading comedic role in the romantic comedy film The Goodbye Girl (1977). He was Oscar-nominated for his role as a composer turned music teacher in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995).

He is also known for starring in films such as the coming of age drama American Graffiti (1973), the horror film Jaws (1975), the science fiction Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), (1977), the musical drama The Competition (1980), the drama Stand by Me (1986), the comedy Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), the buddy cop comedy Stakeout (1987), the drama Nuts (1987), the romantic fantasy Always (1989), the comedy What About Bob? (1991), the romantic comedy The American President (1995) and the political drama W. (2008).

Acting credits

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1967	Valley of the Dolls	Assistant stage manager	Uncredited
	The Graduate	Boarding House Resident
1968	The Young Runaways	Terry
1969	Hello Down There	Harold Webster
1973	American Graffiti	Curt Henderson
	Dillinger	Baby Face Nelson
1974	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Duddy Kravitz
	The Second Coming of Suzanne	Clavius
1975	Inserts	The Boy Wonder
	Jaws	Matt Hooper
1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Roy Neary
	The Goodbye Girl	Elliott Garfield
1978	The Big Fix	Moses Wine	Also producer
1980	The Competition	Paul Dietrich
1981	Whose Life Is It Anyway?	Ken Harrison
1984	The Buddy System	Joe
1986	Down and Out in Beverly Hills	David "Dave" Whiteman
	Stand by Me	Narrator/Gordie LaChance (adult)
1987	Tin Men	Bill 'BB' Babowsky
	Stakeout	Det. Chris Lecce
	Nuts	Aaron Levinsky
1988	Moon over Parador	Jack Noah/President Alphonse Simms
1989	Let It Ride	Jay Trotter
	Always	Pete Sandich
1990	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead	The Player
	Postcards from the Edge	Doctor Frankenthal
1991	Once Around	Sam Sharpe	Also co-producer
	What About Bob?	Leo Marvin
1993	Lost in Yonkers	Louie Kurnitz
	Another Stakeout	Detective Chris Lecce
1994	Silent Fall	Jake Rainer
1995	The Last Word	Larry
	The American President	Senator Bob Rumson
	Mr. Holland's Opus	Glenn Holland
1996	James and the Giant Peach	Mr. Centipede (voice)
	Mad Dog Time	Vic
1997	Night Falls on Manhattan	Sam Vigoda
1998	Krippendorf's Tribe	Prof. James Krippendorf
2000	The Crew	Bobby Bartellemeo/Narrator
2001	The Old Man Who Read Love Stories	Antonio Bolivar
	Who Is Cletis Tout?	Micah Donnelly
	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys	Scoop T. Snowman (voice)
2004	Silver City	Chuck Raven
2006	Poseidon	Richard Nelson
2008	Signs of the Time	Narrator	Documentary
	W.	Dick Cheney
	America Betrayed	Narrator	Documentary
2009	My Life in Ruins	Irv
	Leaves of Grass	Pug Rothbaum
	The Lightkeepers	Seth	Also executive producer
2010	Piranha 3D	Matt Boyd
	Red	Alexander Dunning
2012	Casting By	Himself	Documentary
2013	Paranoia	Francis Cassidy
	Cas and Dylan	Cas Pepper
2014	Very Good Girls	Danny Fields
	Squatters	David
2015	Zipper	George Hiller
2018	Book Club	George
	Bayou Caviar	Yuri
	Asher	Avi
2019	The Last Laugh	Buddy Green
	Polar	Porter
	Daughter of the Wolf	Father
	Astronaut	Angus
2021	Crime Story	Ben Myers
	Every Last One of Them	Murphy
2022	Murder at Yellowstone City	Edgar Blake
2023	Sweetwater	Maurice Podoloff
2025	Waltzing with Brando	TBA	Post-production

Television

Year	Work	Role	Notes
1964	Karen	David Rowe III	Episode: "Karen's Simplicity Complex"
1965	Peyton Place	Cap and Gown Student (Uncredited)	Episode: 1/94
1966	Gidget	Norman	Episode: "Ego-a-Go-Go"
	Bewitched	Rodney	Episode: "Man's Best Friend"
1967	The Big Valley	Lud Akley	Episode: "Boy Into Man"
	That Girl	Johnny Arthur; Waiter	Episode: "Paper Hats and Everything"
1968	Judd, for the Defense	Larry Corning	Episode: "Weep the Hunter Home"
1969	The Ghost & Mrs. Muir	Mark Finley	Episode: "Buried on Page One"
1970, 1973	The Mod Squad	Curtis Bell / Caleb Dunne	2 episodes
1972	The Shadow of a Gun	Tommy Owens	Television film
1973	Gunsmoke	Gearshon Gorofsky	Episode: "This Golden Land"
	A Touch of Grace	Donald	Episode: "The Accident"
	Me	Greg	Hollywood Television Theater; later retitled Untold Damage
1976	Victory at Entebbe	Colonel Yonatan 'Yoni' Netanyahu	Television film
1987	Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville	Himself (host)	TV special on ABC
1991	Prisoner of Honor	Col. Picquart	Television film; also producer
1994	Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories	Narrator	Episode: Moe, the Dog in Tropical Paradise/Amos
1997	Oliver Twist	Fagin	Television film; also producer
1999	Lansky	Meyer Lansky	Television film
2000	Fail Safe	President of the United States	Television film
2001–2002	The Education of Max Bickford	Max Bickford	22 episodes; also producer
2001	Mr. Dreyfuss Goes To Washington	Himself (host)	TV special on History Channel
	The Day Reagan Was Shot	Alexander Haig	Television film
2003	Coast to Coast	Barnaby Pierce	Television film
2007	Tin Man	Mystic Man	Miniseries; 3 episodes
	Ocean of Fear	Narrator	TV documentary
2009–2010	Family Guy	Himself (voice)	2 episodes
2010	Weeds	Warren Schiff	4 episodes
2011	Parenthood	Gilliam T. Blount	4 episodes
2012	Coma	Professor Hillside	Miniseries; 2 episodes
2015	Blood and Glory: The Civil War in Color	Himself	4 episodes
	Your Family or Mine	Louis	Series regular; 7 episodes
2016	Madoff	Bernie Madoff	Miniseries; 4 episodes
2017	Shots Fired	Arlen Cox	Miniseries; 9 episodes
	Hit the Road	James	Episode: "Gone Daddy, Gone"
2020	The Great British Bake Off	Himself	Contestant in the Stand Up To Cancer Celebrity Charity Special
2022	Bubble Guppies	Captain Acrab (voice)	Episode: "The Jaw-some Sharkventure!"

Theatre

Year	Work	Role	Location
1983	Total Abandon	Lenny Keller	Broadway
1992	Death and the Maiden	Gerardo Escobar	Broadway
2004	Sly Fox	Foxwell J. Sly	Broadway
2004	The Producers	Max Bialystock	West End
2007	Prophesy and Honor	Congressman Frank R. Reid	Honolulu

External links

• Richard Dreyfuss at the Rotten Tomatoes