
Actor · 43 credits
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.

Daughter of the Wolf
2019
Father

Polar
2019
Porter

Book Club
2018
George

Paranoia
2013
Frank Cassidy

RED
2010
Alexander Dunning

Piranha 3D
2010
Matthew Boyd

My Life in Ruins
2009
Irv Gideon

Poseidon
2006
Richard Nelson

Coast to Coast
2004
Barnaby Pierce

Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
Prof. Krippendorf

James and the Giant Peach
1996
Centipede (voice)

The American President
1995
Senator Rumson

What About Bob?
1991
Dr. Leo Marvin

Stand by Me
1986
The Writer

Jaws
1975
Hooper

American Graffiti
1973
Curt Henderson

The Graduate
1967
Boarding House Resident (uncredited)