Richard Dreyfuss

Highest Rated: 100% Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: 40th Anniversary Release (2017)

Lowest Rated: 7% Paranoia (2013)

Birthday: Oct 29, 1947

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

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, Dreyfuss moved to Los Angeles with his family when he was nine. There he became friends with Rob Reiner and began acting in school productions and at the Beverly Hills Jewish Community Center. He attended San Fernando Valley State College, but was expelled after getting into a heated argument with a professor over Marlon Brando's performance in Julius Caesar (1953). Not wanting to be drafted for Vietnam, he registered as a conscientious objector and spent two years as a clerk at a Los Angeles hospital instead of enlisting. During this time, Dreyfuss started getting a few acting jobs on network television series such as Bewitched and Big Valley; he had his first film role in 1967's The Graduate, speaking the lines "Shall I call the cops? I'll call the cops" to Dustin Hoffman. He continued playing bit parts in a couple more films, but did not get his first big break until he played Baby Face Nelson in the bloody biopic Dillinger (1973). A memorable leading role as an intelligent, contemplative teen in George Lucas' American Graffiti (1973) earned Dreyfuss critical acclaim, as did his portrayal of an entrepreneurial Jewish youth in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974). In 1975, the actor's career exploded when he starred as an arrogant shark expert in Steven Spielberg's Jaws. He worked for Spielberg again two years later, playing an average Midwestern working stiff who learns that we are not alone in the universe in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Further success followed that same year when Dreyfuss portrayed a failed actor in Neil Simon's romantic comedy The Goodbye Girl. His performance won him an Oscar, making him, at the age of 29, the youngest performer ever to receive the Best Actor honor. After that, Dreyfuss was in demand and, until 1981, he continued to find steady work in a number of films. However, none of these proved particularly popular, and the actor's career began to nosedive. Matters were worsened by his reported drug use and Hollywood party antics; in 1982, he was involved in a car accident and arrested for possession of cocaine. Fortunately, Dreyfuss managed to turn his life around, and after appearing in the rarely seen Buddy System (1984), made a big comeback in Paul Mazursky's hit comedy Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), starring opposite Bette Midler and Nick Nolte. With his reputation restored, Dreyfuss went on to appear in lead and supporting roles in numerous films of varying quality. Highlights included Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), Postcards From the Edge (1990), What About Bob? (1991), and Quiz Show (1994). In 1996, Dreyfuss played one of his finest roles as a high school music teacher who sacrifices his dream of becoming a famous composer to help his students in Mr. Holland's Opus (1996). The role earned Dreyfuss an Oscar nomination. That same year, he won acclaim of a different sort, lending his voice to a sarcastic centipede in Tim Burton's animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. He went on to appear in Sidney Lumet's Night Falls on Manhattan (1997) and to star in Krippendorf's Tribe in 1998. The following year, he could be seen as titular Jewish gangster Lansky, a made-for-TV biopic scripted by David Mamet.In 2001, with his film career struggling a bit, Dreyfuss took his first stab at series television since 1964's short-lived sitcom Karen. The hour-long CBS drama The Education of Max Bickford starred the actor as a college history professor opposite Marcia Gay Harden and received largely positive reviews from critics. However, despite the accolades, the show failed to garner a substantial audience and was cancelled after one season.The following years woul

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
59%	Astronaut	Angus	—	2019
22%	Daughter of the Wolf	Father	—	2019
19%	Polar	Porter	—	2019
53%	The Last Laugh	Buddy Green	—	2019
46%	Asher	Avi	—	2018
20%	Bayou Caviar	Yuri	—	2018
54%	Book Club	George	—	2018
100%	Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: 40th Anniversary Release	Roy Neary	$3.1M	2017
20%	Zipper	George Hiller	—	2015
31%	Cas & Dylan	Dr. Cas Pepper	—	2015
19%	Very Good Girls	Danny Field	—	2014
No Score Yet	Squatters	David Silverman	—	2014
7%	Paranoia	Frank Cassidy	$5.4M	2013
71%	Red	Alexander Dunning	$89M	2010
74%	Piranha 3-D	Matt	$25M	2010
61%	Leaves of Grass	Pug Rothbaum	$68.5K	2010
20%	The Lightkeepers	Seth Atkins/Bascom Executive Producer	—	2010
No Score Yet	Jaws: The Inside Story	Actor	—	2010
9%	My Life in Ruins	Irv	$8.5M	2009
No Score Yet	America Betrayed	Narrator	—	2009
58%	W.	Dick Cheney	$25.6M	2008
No Score Yet	Shark Week - Ocean Of Fear	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	Rona Barrett's Hollywood: Nothing but the Truth	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	A Wayfarer's Journey: Listening to Mahler	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive	Actor	—	2006
No Score Yet	Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters	Actor	—	2006
33%	Poseidon	Richard Nelson	$60.7M	2006
No Score Yet	Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady	Actor	—	2006
48%	Silver City	Chuck Raven	$0.9M	2004
No Score Yet	Citizen Stan	Narrator	—	2004
100%	Easy Riders---Raging Bulls	Actor	—	2003
73%	Johnstown Flood	Narrator	—	2003
No Score Yet	Teddy Roosevelt	Actor	—	2003
No Score Yet	Teddy Roosevelt - An American Lion	Actor	—	2003
23%	Who Is Cletis Tout?	Micah	$65.4K	2002
60%	The Day Reagan Was Shot	Alexander Haig	—	2001
No Score Yet	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys	Scoop the Snowman	—	2001
No Score Yet	The Old Man Who Read Love Stories	Antonio Bolivar	—	2001
No Score Yet	In Search of Peace Part One: 1948-1967	Yitzhak Rabin	—	2001
20%	The Crew	Bobby Bartellemeo	$12.5M	2000
100%	Fail Safe	The President	—	2000
No Score Yet	NOVA: Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude	Narrator	—	1998
40%	Lansky	Meyer Lansky (age 40-70)	—	1998
16%	Krippendorf's Tribe	James Krippendorf	—	1998
No Score Yet	Oliver Twist	Fagin Producer	—	1997
No Score Yet	Jack London's 'The Call of the Wild'	Narrator	—	1997
56%	Addicted to Love	astronomer	—	1997
68%	Night Falls on Manhattan	Sam Vigoda	—	1997
17%	Mad Dog Time	Vic	—	1996
91%	James and the Giant Peach	Centipede	—	1996
No Score Yet	The Universal Story	Narrator	—	1996
75%	Mr. Holland's Opus	Glenn Holland	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws'	Actor	—	1995
91%	The American President	Sen. Robert Rumson	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Last Word	Larry	—	1995
22%	Silent Fall	Jake Rainer	—	1994
96%	Quiz Show	Executive Producer	—	1994
13%	Another Stakeout	Chris Lecce	—	1993
71%	Lost in Yonkers	Uncle Louie	—	1993
58%	Indian Summer	Actor	—	1993
No Score Yet	Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863	William T. Sherman	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862	William T. Sherman	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865	William T. Sherman	—	1992
No Score Yet	Smithsonian's Great Battles of the Civil War, Vol. 1	Actor	—	1992
No Score Yet	Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864	William T. Sherman	—	1992
No Score Yet	Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories	Actor	—	1992
No Score Yet	Prisoner of Honor	Colonel Ploquart Producer	—	1991
62%	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	The Player	—	1991
84%	What About Bob?	Dr. Leo Marvin	—	1991
No Score Yet	Remember Pearl Harbor	Actor	—	1991
84%	Postcards from the Edge	Dr. Frankenthal	—	1990
70%	Once Around	Sam Sharp	—	1990
67%	Always	Pete Sandich	—	1989
30%	Let It Ride	Jay Trotter	—	1989
42%	Moon over Parador	Jack Noah	—	1988
35%	Nuts	Aaron Levinsky	—	1987
88%	Stakeout	Chris Lecce	—	1987
81%	Tin Men	Actor	—	1987
No Score Yet	Legends - Live at Montreux 1997	Bill 'BB' Babowsky	—	1987
91%	Stand by Me	The Writer	—	1986
81%	Down and Out in Beverly Hills	Dave Whiteman	—	1986
No Score Yet	The Buddy System	Joe	—	1983
67%	Whose Life Is It Anyway?	Ken Harrison	—	1981
71%	The Competition	Paul Dietrich	—	1980
No Score Yet	Coast to Coast	Barnaby Pierce	—	1980
No Score Yet	Suzanne	Actor	—	1980
86%	The Big Fix	Moses Wine Producer	—	1978
83%	The Goodbye Girl	Elliott Garfield	—	1977
95%	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Roy Neary	—	1977
No Score Yet	Victory at Entebbe	Col. Netanyahu	—	1976
98%	Jaws	Matt Hooper	—	1975
64%	Inserts	Boy Wonder	—	1975
100%	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Duddy	—	1974
No Score Yet	The Second Coming of Suzanne	Clavius	—	1974
96%	American Graffiti	Curt	—	1973
92%	Dillinger	Baby Face Nelson	—	1973
No Score Yet	The Shadow of a Gunman	Tommy Owen	—	1972
No Score Yet	Call of the Wild	Actor	—	1972
No Score Yet	Hello Down There	Harold Webster	—	1969
88%	The Graduate	Berkeley Student	—	1967
35%	Valley of the Dolls	Actor	—	1967
No Score Yet	Signs of the Time	Actor	—

TV

		Credit
0%	Hit the Road 2017	James	2017
84%	Shots Fired 2017	Arlen Cox	2017
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	Today 2017	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	Rachael Ray 2015	Guest	2017 2016
No Score Yet	Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003	Guest	2016
68%	Madoff 2016	Bernie Madoff	2016
No Score Yet	The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	The View 1997	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	Your Family or Mine 2015	Ricky Louis	2015
48%	Coma 2012	Professor Hillside	2012
88%	Parenthood 2010-2015	Gilliam T. Blount	2011
70%	Weeds 2005-2012	Warren Mr. Schiff Warren Schiff	2010
71%	Family Guy 1999	Voice	2010 2009 2000
No Score Yet	Tin Man 2007	Mystic Man	2007
No Score Yet	Real Time with Bill Maher 2003	Panelist	2006
79%	The Education of Max Bickford 2001-2002	Max Bickford	2002 2001
No Score Yet	NOVA 1974	Voice	1998
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live 1975	Host Guest	1978
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Gershon	1973
No Score Yet	Bewitched 1964-1972	Rodney	1966
33%	American Chronicles 1990	Narrator

QUOTES FROM Richard Dreyfuss CHARACTERS

Siggy Marvin says: What if it starts up again?

Dr. Leo Marvin says: He can borrow my slicker!

Jay Trotter says: God likes me! He really, really likes me!

Centipede says: Holy shipwreck!!!!!

Bobby Bartellemeo says: Constantly surrounded by beautiful girls, with a prostate the size of a vidalya onion, it was like waving candy corn in front of a diabetic.

Richard Nelson says: Hi, I'm Nelson.

Richard Nelson says: Thank you, gorgeous!

Valentin says: My name is Valentin.

Richard Nelson says: I love that name.

Chris Lecce says: It's a family custom

Chris Lecce says: It's a family custom.

Sam Sharpe says: Dogs can't make their dreams come true, so people have to.

Matt Hooper says: [voice imitating W. C. Fields] I don't have to take this abuse much longer!

Matt Hooper says: I don't have to take this abuse much longer!

Matt Hooper says: Well, this is not a boat accident! And it wasn't any propeller; and it wasn't any coral reef; and it wasn't Jack the Ripper! It was a shark.

Matt Hooper says: I'm not going to waste my time arguing with a man who's lining up to be a hot lunch.

Roy Neary says: You can't fool us by agreeing with us.

Boy Wonder says: Nothing pure is ever simple.

Glenn Holland says: I'm talking to you boy! What's the matter? You deaf or something?

Matt Hooper says: (After light on Orca goes out) He ate the light!

Matt Hooper says: He ate the light!

Chief Martin Brody says: Terrific!

Matt Hooper says: Show me the way to go home... I'm tired and I wanna go to bed. I 'ad a little drink about an hour ago and it's got right to my 'ead. Wherever I may roam. By land or sea or phone. You can always hear me singin this song... show me the way to go home... bom bom bom

Matt Hooper says: "Well, this is not a boat accident! And it wasn't any propeller, and it wasn't any coral reef, and it wasn't Jack the Ripper! It was a shark!"

Matt Hooper says: Well, this is not a boat accident! And it wasn't any propeller, and it wasn't any coral reef, and it wasn't Jack the Ripper! It was a shark!

Dr. Leo Marvin says: [just as Bob and Lily get pronounced "Man and Wife"] NO!

Dr. Leo Marvin says: [just as Bob and Lily get pronounced 'Man and Wife'] NO!

Dr. Leo Marvin says: [after he finds out the mental institution staff like Bob] I can't believe that I'm hearing this!

Dr. Tomsky says: Relax, Leo.

Dr. Leo Marvin says: [obviously not relaxed] I'm relaxed!

Dr. Tomsky says: Take a vacation.

Dr. Leo Marvin says: [losing it] I'M ON VACATION!

Dr. Tomsky says: [concerned] ...Maybe you should check in here for a few days. Get a handle on things.

Dr. Leo Marvin says: You think he's gone? He's not gone. That's the whole point! He's never gone! [he opens the door and there's Bob]

Bob Wiley says: Is this some radical new therapy?

Dr. Leo Marvin says: YOU SEE?!

Dr. Leo Marvin says: [seeing Bob put his arm around Lily] DON'T TOUCH MY SISTER!

The Writer says: The train had knocked Ray Brower out of his Keds the same way it had knocked the life out of his body.

The Writer says: [referring to Chris] Although I hadn't seen him in more than ten years, I know I'll miss him forever.

The Writer says: We all knew what Vern meant right away. At the beginning of the school year, Vern had buried a quart jar of pennies underneath his house. He drew a treasure map so he could find them again. A week later, his mom cleaned out his room and threw away the map. Vern had been trying to find those pennies for nine months. Nine months, man. You didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The Writer says: Vern didn't just mean being off limits inside the junkyard, or fudging on our folks, or going on a hike up the railroad to Harlow. He meant those things, but it seems to me now it was more and that we all knew it. Everything was there and around us. We knew exactly who we were and exactly where we were going. It was grand.

The Writer says: It was weird to me how, then, Teddy could care so much about his father, who practically tried to kill him. And I couldn't give a shit about my old man, and he hadn't laid a hand on me since I was three And that was for eating the bleach under the sink.

Grasshopper says: What's your latitude? What's your longitude?

Centipede says: Hey, hey, hey! That question's personal, bud!

Elliott Garfield says: I happen to have a lease in my pocket. Are you gonna honor it or what?

Paula McFadden says: I have a daughter in my bedroom. That tops the lease in your pocket.

Paula McFadden says: What happened to your eye?

Elliott Garfield says: I used it to stop a fist from going through my face.

Earthworm says: You said you've been to Bora-Bora.

Centipede says: Well not Bora-Bora per se.

Spider says: What about the shores of Tripoli?

Centipede says: Did I say Tripoli? I meant the Halls of of Montezuma.

Roy Neary says: [contemplating the lump shape] This means something. This is important.

Brad Neary says: I don't understand these fractions.

Roy Neary says: What's one third of sixty?

Brad Neary says: [bewildered] That's a fraction, I don't understand them.

Roy Neary says: [using a model train as an object lesson] Alright, let's say that this boxcar is sixty feet long, OK?, and one third of it is across this switch here, alright... And now another train is coming... Now, how far do you have to move this boxcar so that the other train doesn't smash it? Quickly Brad, there are thousands of lives at stake... Brad any answer... [CRASH]

Centipede says: I sailed all the five seas, from the sunlit beaches of Bora-Bora, to the icy shores of Tripoli! Commander Centipede, they used to call me!

Grasshopper says: Seven.

Centipede says: Huh?

Grasshopper says: There are SEVEN seas, and Tripoli is in the subtropics, commander.

Dr. Leo Marvin says: On Tuesday we'll eat Gill, on Wednesday we'll eat Bob. No ... no, that's going too far. More fish anyone?

Elliott Garfield says: [Lamenting yet another bad review of his performance in the play] Channel 5 was honest. Direct and honest: 'Richard the III stunk. And Elliot Garfield was the stinkee.'

Elliott Garfield says: [lamenting yet another bad review of his performance in the play] Channel 5 was honest. Direct and honest: 'Richard the III stunk. And Elliot Garfield was the stinkee.'

Elliott Garfield says: I play the guitar whenever I cannot sleep, and I meditate every morning, complete with chanting and burning incense, so if you have to walk around I'd appreciate a little tiptoeing. Also: I sleep in the nude. "Au buffo." Winter and summer, rain or snow, with the windows open. And because I may have to go to the potty or to the fridge in the middle of the night, and because I do not want to put on jammies which I do not own in the first place, unless you're looking for a quick thrill or your daughter an advanced education I'd keep my door closed.

Elliott Garfield says: I play the guitar whenever I cannot sleep, and I meditate every morning, complete with chanting and burning incense, so if you have to walk around I'd appreciate a little tiptoeing. Also: I sleep in the nude. 'Au buffo.' Winter and summer, rain or snow, with the windows open. And because I may have to go to the potty or to the fridge in the middle of the night, and because I do not want to put on jammies which I do not own in the first place, unless you're looking for a quick thrill or your daughter an advanced education I'd keep my door closed.

Paula McFadden says: I thought you said you were decent.

Elliott Garfield says: I am decent. I also happen to be naked.

Dr. Leo Marvin says: I want some peace and quiet!

Bob Wiley says: I'll be quiet.

Siggy Marvin says: I'll be peace!

Chief Martin Brody says: i used to hate the water.

Chief Martin Brody says: I used to hate the water.

Matt Hooper says: i cant imagine why.

Matt Hooper says: I cant imagine why.

Matt Hooper says: You were on the Indianapolis?

Chief Martin Brody says: What happened?

Quint says: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail fin. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark will go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

Matt Hooper says: YOU GOT ANY BETTER SUGGESTIONS?

Matt Hooper says: I'm not going to waste my time arguing with a man who's lining up to be a hot lunch.

Matt Hooper says: They're all gonna die.

Matt Hooper says: This was not a boat accident!

Matt Hooper says: Is anyone eating this?

Matt Hooper says: Wanna Pretzel?

Matt Hooper says: [In shock to the shark's abilities] Ever had one do this before?

Matt Hooper says: [in shock to the shark's abilities] Ever had one do this before?

Quint says: [Also in shock] No...

Matt Hooper says: "The tide is with us today."(after the death of the shark and as they are paddling to shore)

Matt Hooper says: The tide is with us today. [after the death of the shark and as they are paddling to shore]

Chief Martin Brody says: "I never liked the water"

Chief Martin Brody says: I never liked the water.

Matt Hooper says: "I can't imagine why." (last line in the movie)

Matt Hooper says: I can't imagine why. [last line in the movie]

Matt Hooper says: Doctor, I can't come to Brisbane when I've a Great White shark problem!

Mayor Larry Vaughn says: I don't think either one of you are familiar with our problems!

Matt Hooper says: I'm familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass!

Matt Hooper says: Mr. Vaughan, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.

Curt Henderson says: I'm telling you this was the most perfect, dazzling creature I've ever seen!

Steve Bolander says: She's gone. Forget it.

Curt Henderson says: She spoke to me, she spoke to me right through the window. I think she said I love you...That means nothing to you people?...You have no romance, no soul?...Someone wants me. Someone roaming the streets wants me...Will you turn the corner?

Curt Henderson says: She spoke to me, she spoke to me right through the window. I think she said I love you. That means nothing to you people? You have no romance, no soul? Someone wants me. Someone roaming the streets wants me. Will you turn the corner?

Roy Neary says: Who are you people?

Matt says: " He took my Penis!"

Matt says: They took my penis.

The Writer says: I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

The Writer says: [typing on computer] I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

Matt Hooper says: This was no boat accident.

Matt Hooper says: [to the m.e. and Brody] This was no boat accident!

Roy Neary says: I guess you've noticed something a little strange with Dad. It's okay, though. I'm still Dad.

Roy Neary says: I guess you've noticed something a little strange with Dad. It's okay though. I'm still Dad.

The Writer says: I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

The Writer says: I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being.

Antonio Bolivar says: "Ke-knock, then en-ter"

Antonio Bolivar says: "Looks like a gondola"

Antonio Bolivar says: "Ar-dent-ly"

Antonio Bolivar says: "Sar-din-es"

Antonio Bolivar says: "It was a kiss of impassionate intensity. A kiss to remember their lives by"