An American actor best known for starring in a number of 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. Dreyfuss 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.
2025
as Seamus
2024
as Seymour Kraft
2023
as Self
2023
as Maurice Podoloff
2022
as Narrator (voice)
2022
as Santa
2022
as Edgar
2021
as Murphy
2021
as Ben Myers
2020
as Self - Actor
2020
as Self
2019
as Angus
2019
as Father
2019
as Porter
2019
as Buddy Green
2018
as Avi
2018
as Yuri
2018
as Self
2018
as George
2018
as Self - Guest
2017
as Self
2017
as Arlen Cox
2016
as Bernie Madoff
2015
as George Hiller
2015
as Louis
2014
as David Silverman
2014
as Self
2014
as Luigi Vanvitelli
2014
as Self (archive footage)
2013
as Dr. Cas Pepper
2013
as Frank Cassidy
2013
as Self
2013
as Danny
2012
as Self
2012
as Professor Hillside
2011
as Narrator
2011
as Captain Acrab
2010
as Alexander Dunning
2010
as Matthew Boyd
2010
as Self
2010
as Gilliam T. Blount
2009
as Seth
2009
as Pug Rothbaum
2009
as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
2009
as Irv Gideon
2009
as Self
2009
as Self
2008
as Dick Cheney
2008
as Narrator
2007
as Mystic Man
2007
as Narrator
2007
as Self
2007
as Self
2006
as Self
2006
as Richard Nelson
2005
as Warren Schiff
2005
as Self - Actor
2004
as Chuck Raven
2004
as Narrator
2004
as Barnaby Pierce
2003
as Theodore Roosevelt
2003
as Self
2003
as Self
2003
as narrator
2002
as Narrator
2001
as Alexander Haig
2001
as Self
2001
as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
2001
as Max Bickford
2001
as Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
2001
as Micah Donnelly
2001
as Self
2001
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as Self
2000
as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
2000
as President
1999
as Self
1999
as Meyer Lansky
1999
as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)
1999
as Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
1998
as Narrator
1998
as Self
1998
as Self
1998
as Prof. Krippendorf
1997
1997
as Narrator (voice)
1997
as Fagin
1997
as Sam Vigoda
1997
as Self
1997
as Self
1997
as Self
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as Self
1996
as Vic
1996
as Self
1996
as Centipede (voice)
1995
as Glenn Holland
1995
as Self
1995
as Senator Rumson
1995
as Larry
1994
as Dr. Jake Rainer
1994
as Self
1993
as Det. Chris Lecce
1993
as Louie Kurnitz
1992
as William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
1992
as Narrator (Voice)
1991
as Col. Picquart
1991
as Dr. Leo Marvin
1991
as The Player
1991
as Sam Sharpe
1990
as Dr. Frankenthal
1989
as Pete Sandich
1989
as Jay Trotter
1988
as Self
1988
as Jack Noah
1987
as Aaron Levinsky
1987
as Self
1987
as Det. Chris Lecce
1987
as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
1987
as Jedediah
1986
as The Writer
1986
as Dave Whiteman
1985
as Self
1984
as Joe
1981
as Ken Harrison
1980
as Paul Dietrich
1978
as Moses Wine
1977
as Roy Neary
1977
as Elliot Garfield
1977
as Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited)
1977
as Self
1977
1976
as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
1975
as Hooper
1975
as Boy Wonder
1974
as Self
1974
as Clavius
1974
as Duddy
1973
as Greg
1973
as Curt Henderson
1973
as Baby Face Nelson
1973
as Yossarian
1973
1972
as Tommy Owen
1972
as Morris Gap
1971
as Self
1969
1969
1969
as Harold Webster
1968
1968
as Terry
1967
as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
1967
as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
1967
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1965
1965
as Lud
1964
as David Rowe III
1964
1961
1955
as Gearshon Gorofsky
1953
as Self
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Jerry Hamburger