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Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss

Total Box Office:
 $230.9M
Highest Rated:
100% Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (2003)
Lowest Rated:
4% Paranoia (2013)
Birthday:
Oct 29
Birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Bio:
Stocky, frequently bespectacled, eventually balding, and prematurely gray, Richard Dreyfuss is an unlikely candidate for a movie star. Even so, he has been one of Hollywood's most versatile, charismatic, and energetic leading men since the mid-'70s. Born in Brooklyn, NY, on October 29, 1947,…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies | TV series

MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
Very Good Girls
  • Actor
-- 2013
4% Paranoia
  • Frank Cassidy
$7.4M 2013
72% Red
  • Alexander Dunnig
$90.4M 2010
The Lightkeepers
  • Seth Atkins/Bascom
-- 2010
Jaws: The Inside Story
  • Actor
-- 2010
61% Leaves of Grass
  • Pug Rothbaum
$68.0k 2010
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
  • Actor
-- 2010
Light Keepers
  • Actor
-- 2010
73% Piranha 3-D
  • Matt
$25.0M 2010
9% My Life in Ruins
  • Irv
$8.5M 2009
Shark Week - Ocean Of Fear
  • Actor
-- 2008
Rona Barrett's Hollywood: Nothing but the Truth
  • Actor
-- 2008
America Betrayed
  • Narrator
-- 2008
59% W.
  • Dick Cheney
$25.5M 2008
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
  • Actor
-- 2007
A Wayfarer's Journey: Listening to Mahler
  • Actor
-- 2007
33% Poseidon
  • Richard Nelson
$60.7M 2006
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
  • Actor
-- 2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
  • Actor
-- 2005
48% Silver City
  • Chuck Raven
$0.9M 2004
Coast To Coast
  • Actor
-- 2004
Citizen Stan
  • Narrator
-- 2004
Coast to Coast
  • Barnaby Pierce
-- 2003
100% Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
  • Actor
-- 2003
Teddy Roosevelt - An American Lion
  • Actor
-- 2003
73% Johnstown Flood
  • Narrator
-- 2003
The Shadow of a Gunman
  • Actor
-- 2003
Teddy Roosevelt
  • Actor
-- 2003
23% Who is Cletis Tout?
  • Micah
$64.9k 2002
79% Tin Men
  • Actor
-- 2002
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
  • Scoop the Snowman
-- 2001
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
  • Antonio Bolivar
-- 2001
In Search of Peace - Part One: 1948-1967
  • Actor
-- 2001
The Day Reagan Was Shot
  • Alexander Haig
-- 2001
20% The Crew
  • Bobby Bartellemeo
$12.5M 2000
100% Fail Safe
  • President
-- 2000
Lansky
  • Actor
-- 1999
Nova - Lost at Sea The seach for longitude
  • Actor
-- 1999
14% Krippendorf's Tribe
  • James Krippendorf
-- 1998
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
  • Narrator
-- 1998
Oliver Twist
  • Fagin
-- 1997
68% Night Falls on Manhattan
  • Sam Vigoda
-- 1997
57% Addicted to Love
  • astronomer
-- 1997
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
  • Narrator
-- 1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
  • Actor
-- 1997
In the Wild - The Galapagos Islands With Richard Dreyfuss
  • Actor
-- 1996
17% Mad Dog Time
  • Vic
-- 1996
93% James and the Giant Peach
  • Centipede
-- 1996
Universal Story
  • Narrator
-- 1996
90% The American President
  • Senator Bob Rumson
-- 1995
74% Mr. Holland's Opus
  • Glenn Holland
-- 1995
The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws'
  • Actor
-- 1995
The Last Word
  • Larry
-- 1994
24% Silent Fall
  • Jake Rainer
-- 1994
65% Indian Summer
  • Actor
-- 1993
69% Lost in Yonkers
  • Uncle Louie
-- 1993
14% Another Stakeout
  • Chris Lecce
-- 1993
Lincoln - The Making of a President: 1860 - 1862
  • William T. Sherman
-- 1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
  • Actor
-- 1992
Lincoln - The Pivotal Year: 1863
  • William T. Sherman
-- 1992
Lincoln - "I Want to Finish This Job": 1864
  • William T. Sherman
-- 1992
Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War - V. 1
  • Actor
-- 1992
Lincoln - "Now He Belongs to the Ages": 1865
  • William T. Sherman
-- 1992
82% What About Bob?
  • Dr. Leo Marvin
-- 1991
68% Once Around
  • Sam Sharpe
-- 1991
Remember Pearl Harbor
  • Actor
-- 1991
Prisoner of Honor
  • Colonel Ploquart
-- 1991
64% Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
  • Player King
-- 1990
90% Postcards from the Edge
  • Dr. Frankenthal
-- 1990
64% Always
  • Pete Sandich
-- 1989
30% Let It Ride
  • Trotter
-- 1989
42% Moon Over Parador
  • Jack Noah
-- 1988
83% Stakeout
  • Chris Lecce
-- 1987
38% Nuts
  • Aaron Levinsky
-- 1987
Legends - Live at Montreux 1997
  • Bill "BB" Babowsky
-- 1987
91% Stand by Me
  • The Writer
-- 1986
84% Down and Out in Beverly Hills
  • Dave Whiteman
-- 1986
The Buddy System
  • Joe
-- 1983
80% Whose Life Is It Anyway?
  • Ken Harrison
-- 1981
Suzanne
  • Actor
-- 1980
100% The Competition
  • Paul Dietrich
-- 1980
The Big Fix
  • Moses Wine
-- 1978
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Director's Cut
  • Actor
-- 1977
95% Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Roy Neary
-- 1977
87% The Goodbye Girl
  • Elliott Garfield
-- 1977
Victory at Entebbe
  • Col. Netanyahu
-- 1976
98% Jaws
  • Matt Hooper
-- 1975
Inserts
  • Boy Wonder
-- 1975
The Second Coming of Suzanne
  • Clavius
-- 1974
100% The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
  • Duddy
-- 1974
95% American Graffiti
  • Curt Henderson
-- 1973
92% Dillinger
  • Baby Face Nelson
-- 1973
Hello Down There
  • Harold Webster
-- 1969
88% The Graduate
  • Hotel resident (uncredited)
  • Director
-- 1967
38% Valley of the Dolls
  • Actor
-- 1967
Signs of the Time
  • Actor
--
Class of the 20th Century
  • Actor
--

Movies | TV series

TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
50% Coma
2012-2012
83% Parenthood
  • Gilliam T. Blount
2010-2013
60% Weeds
  • Actor
  • Warren Schiff
  • Warren
2005-2012

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    1. Sam Sharpe: Dogs can't make their dreams come true, so people have to.
    From Once Around. Submitted by Frances H (49 days ago)
    1. Matt Hooper: I don't have to take this abuse much longer!
    From Jaws. Submitted by Adam O (3 months ago)

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Richard Dreyfuss News

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Dreyfuss' Lightkeepers Draws Oscar Buzz Opens in new window
December 15, 2009

Box Office Guru Preview: Lost and Hangover Deliver the Laughs Opens in new window
June 4, 2009

Dreyfuss, Rhames Go Fishing for Piranha 3D Opens in new window
April 24, 2009

Sarandon, Dreyfuss Join Leaves of Grass Opens in new window
September 8, 2008

Box Office Wrapup: "Mission: Impossible 3" Beats "Poseidon" to Remain at #1 Opens in new window
May 14, 2006

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