# List of performances by Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss is an American actor and producer. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his leading role in The Goodbye Girl (1977), and was Oscar-nominated in the same category for his portrayal of the title character in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995).
Dreyfuss' many other film credits include American Graffiti, Dillinger (both 1973), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), The Big Fix (1978), The Competition (1980), Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981), Stand by Me, Down and Out in Beverly Hills (both 1986), Tin Men, Stakeout, Nuts (all 1987), Always (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990), What About Bob? (1991), The American President (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Poseidon (2006), and W. (2008).

## Acting credits
### Film

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1967 | Valley of the Dolls | Assistant Stage Manager | Uncredited |
| The Graduate | Boarding House Resident |
| The Big Valley | Lud | Season 2 Ep 18 ‘Boy Into Man’ |
| 1968 | The Young Runaways | Terry | |
| 1969 | Hello Down There | Harold Webster | |
| 1973 | American Graffiti | Curt Henderson | |
| 1973 | Dillinger | Baby Face Nelson | |
| 1974 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Duddy Kravitz | |
| 1974 | The Second Coming of Suzanne | Clavius | |
| 1975 | Inserts | The Boy Wonder | |
| 1975 | Jaws | Matt Hooper | |
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Roy Neary | |
| 1977 | 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 | |
| 1986 | Stand by Me | Narrator/Gordie LaChance (adult) | |
| 1987 | Tin Men | Bill 'BB' Babowsky | |
| 1987 | Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | |
| 1987 | Nuts | Aaron Levinsky | |
| 1988 | Moon over Parador | Jack Noah/President Alphonse Simms | |
| 1989 | Let It Ride | Jay Trotter | |
| 1989 | Always | Pete Sandich | |
| 1990 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | The Player | |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Doctor Frankenthal | |
| 1991 | Once Around | Sam Sharpe | Also co-producer |
| 1991 | What About Bob? | Leo Marvin | |
| 1993 | Lost in Yonkers | Louie Kurnitz | |
| 1993 | Another Stakeout | Detective Chris Lecce | |
| 1994 | Silent Fall | Jake Rainer | |
| 1995 | The Last Word | Larry | |
| 1995 | The American President | Senator Bob Rumson | |
| 1995 | Mr. Holland's Opus | Glenn Holland | |
| 1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Mr. Centipede (voice) | |
| 1996 | 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 | |
| 2001 | Who Is Cletis Tout? | Micah Donnelly | |
| 2001 | 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 |
| 2008 | W. | Dick Cheney | |
| 2008 | America Betrayed | Narrator | Documentary |
| 2009 | My Life in Ruins | Irv | |
| 2009 | Leaves of Grass | Pug Rothbaum | |
| 2009 | The Lightkeepers | Seth | Also executive producer |
| 2010 | Piranha 3D | Matt Boyd | |
| 2010 | Red | Alexander Dunning | |
| 2012 | Casting By | Himself | Documentary |
| 2013 | Paranoia | Francis Cassidy | |
| 2013 | Cas and Dylan | Cas Pepper | |
| 2014 | Very Good Girls | Danny Fields | |
| 2014 | Squatters | David | |
| 2015 | Zipper | George Hiller | |
| 2018 | Book Club | George | |
| 2018 | Bayou Caviar | Yuri | |
| 2018 | Asher | Avi | |
| 2019 | The Last Laugh | Buddy Green | |
| 2019 | Polar | Porter | |
| 2019 | Daughter of the Wolf | Father | |
| 2019 | Astronaut | Angus | |
| 2020 | Audrey | Himself | Documentary |
| 2021 | Crime Story | Ben Myers | |
| 2021 | Every Last One of Them | Murphy | |
| 2022 | Murder at Yellowstone City | Edgar Blake | |
| 2023 | Sweetwater | Maurice Podoloff | |
| 2025 | Into the Deep | Seamus | Completed |
| 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" |
| 1966 | Bewitched | Rodney | Episode: "Man's Best Friend" |
| 1967 | The Big Valley | Lud Akley | Episode: "Boy Into Man" |
| 1967 | 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" |
| 1973 | A Touch of Grace | Donald | Episode: "The Accident" |
| 1973 | 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) | ABC special |
| 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) | History Channel special |
| 2001 | 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 |
| 2007 | 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 |
| 2015 | Your Family or Mine | Louis | Series regular; 7 episodes |
| 2016 | Madoff | Bernie Madoff | Miniseries; 4 episodes |
| 2017 | Shots Fired | Arlen Cox | Miniseries; 9 episodes |
| 2017 | Hit the Road | James | Episode: "Gone Daddy, Gone" |
| 2020 | The Great British Bake Off | Himself (contestant) | Stand Up to Cancer celebrity 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 | Hawaii Theatre |