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Richard Dreyfuss

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Filmography

Jaws

1975
as Matt Hooper

Poseidon

2006
as Richard Nelson

Polar

2019
as Porter

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977
as Roy Neary

The Graduate

1967
as Boarding House Student

RED

2010
as Alexander Dunning

Stand by Me

1986
as The Writer

Piranha 3D

2010
as Matthew Boyd

Book Club

2018
as George

James and the Giant Peach

1996
as Centipede (voice)

Shots Fired

2017
as Arlen Cox

Very Good Girls

2013
as Danny

The Last Laugh

2019
as Buddy Green

American Graffiti

1973
as Curt Henderson

Citizen Steve

1987
as Self - Jedediah

Mr. Holland's Opus

1995
as Glenn Holland

Once Around

1991
as Sam

Silent Fall

1994
as Dr. Jake Rainer

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

2007
as Richard Dreyfuss

The Buddy System

1984
as Joe

Another Stakeout

1993
as Det. Chris Lecce

Asher

2018
as Avi

The Goodbye Girl

1977
as Elliot Garfield

Krippendorf's Tribe

1998
as Prof. Krippendorf

Cas & Dylan

2013
as Dr. Cas Pepper

Fail Safe

2000
as President

Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion

2003
as Theodore Roosevelt

Spielberg

2017
as Himself

Who Is Cletis Tout?

2001
as Micah Donnelly

The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

2001
as Richard Dreyfuss

Prisoner of Honor

1991
as Col. Picquart

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

1998
as Narrator

The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws'

1995
as Himself

Leaves of Grass

2009
as Pug Rothbaum

Stakeout

1987
as Det. Chris Lecce

Milius

2013
as Himself

Hello Down There

1969
as Harold Webster

Coma (2012)

2012
as Professor Hillside

America Betrayed

2008
as Richard Dreyfuss

Coast to Coast

2004
as Barnaby Pierce

The Young Runaways

1968
as Terry

Into the Deep

2025
as Seamus

The Big Fix

1978
as Moses Wine

Mad Dog Time

1996
as Vic

The Lightkeepers

2009
as Seth

My Life in Ruins

2009
as Irv Gideon

Karen (1964)

1964

Victory at Entebbe

1976
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

The Competition

1980
as Paul Dietrich

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005
as Himself - Actor

What About Bob?

1991
as Dr. Leo Marvin

The Last Word

1995
as Larry

Astronaut

2019
as Angus

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

1986
as David 'Dave' Whiteman

Ocean of Fear

2007
as Narrator

Crime Story

2021
as Ben Myers

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

2001

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

1974
as Duddy

Night Falls on Manhattan

1996
as Sam Vigoda

The Shark Is Still Working

2007
as Himself

Silver City

2004
as Chuck Raven

Lansky

1999
as Meyer Lansky

The Education of Max Bickford

2001

Daughter of the Wolf

2019
as Father

Inserts

1975
as Boy Wonder

Lost in Yonkers

1993
as Louie Kurnitz

Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me

2000
as Himself

Tin Man

2007
as Mystic Man

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

1981
as Ken Harrison

Your Family or Mine

2015
as Louis

The John Garfield Story

2003
as Richard Dreyfuss

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

2003
as Himself

Dillinger

1973
as Baby Face Nelson

AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition

2007

Always

1989
as Pete Sandich

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

2006
as Richard Dreyfuss

Caserta Palace Dream

2014
as Luigi Vanvitelli

Spinning Gold

2023
as Morris Levy

Killing Winston Jones

as Winston Jones

The American President

1995
as Senator Bob Rumson

Paranoia

2013
as Frank Cassidy

Moon Over Parador

1988
as Jack Noah / President Alphonse Simms

Shakespeare High

2011
as Richard Dreyfuss

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

2004
as Narrator

Madoff

2016
as Bernie Madoff

The Crew

2000
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

Frank Capra's American Dream

1997
as Himself

Oliver Twist

1997
as Fagin

Every Last One of Them

2021
as Murphy

Third Party President: Citizen Rocky

2016
as himself

Postcards from the Edge

1990
as Doctor Frankenthal

Zipper

2015
as George Hiller

Let It Ride

1989
as Jay Trotter

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

2009
as Himself

Tin Men

1987
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky

The Universal Story

1996
as Richard Dreyfuss

Lincoln

1992

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

1997
as Narrator (voice)

The Making of 'American Graffiti'

1998
as Richard Dreyfuss

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

1991
as The Player

Johnstown Flood

2003
as Narrator

Bayou Caviar

2018
as Yuri

Nuts

1987
as Aaron Levinsky

In the Teeth of Jaws

1997
as Richard Dreyfuss

W.

2008
as Dick Cheney

The Day Reagan Was Shot

2001
as Alexander Haig

Squatters

2014
as David Silverman

The Second Coming of Suzanne

1974
as Clavius

Director

Movie Present Tense, Past Perfect 1995

Writer

Movie Present Tense, Past Perfect 1995

Producer

Movie Once Around 1991

Guest Star

Episode The Big Valley
Boy into Man 		1967
Episode Saturday Night Live
Richard Dreyfuss/Jimmy Buffett 		1978
Episode Inside the Actors Studio
Richard Dreyfuss 		2000
Episode The Mod Squad
Mother of Sorrow 		1970
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Mean Tweets Movie Edition 		1970
Episode Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise / Amos: The Story of an Old Dog and His Couch 		1993
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Casey Affleck, Richard Dreyfuss, Mavis Staples 		2016
Episode Weeds
Dearborn-Again 		2010
Episode The Daily Show
Richard Dreyfuss 		2002
Episode Gunsmoke
This Golden Land 		1973
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Jay Leno (guest host), Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Thomas, Celine Dion 		1991
Episode In The Wild (1992)
The Galapagos Islands with Richard Dreyfuss 		1999
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Scarlett Johansson, Richard Dreyfuss, Dan White 		2017
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Kate Winslet, Richard Dreyfuss, Old Dominion 		2016
Episode The Felony Squad
The Last Man in the World 		1968
Episode Family Guy
Three Kings 		2009
Episode Judd for the Defense
Weep the Hunter Home 		1968
Episode The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Buried on Page One 		1969
Episode Shark Week
Ocean of Fear: The Worst Shark Attack Ever 		2007
Episode That Girl
Paper Hats and Everything 		1967
Episode Room 222
The Valedictorion 		1970
Episode The New Dick Van Dyke Show
Mr. Dazzle 		1973
Episode Bewitched
Man's Best Friend 		1966