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Acting

Richard Dreyfuss

Career: Active from 1964 to 2025, busiest in 1987 and 2001 with 5 main titles each.

Leading roles: 74
top three billing

Average score: 56/100

Highest rated: Fail Safe
86/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

BAFTA Awards · Best Leading Actor
1979 · Won
The Goodbye Girl
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actor in a Leading Role
1978 · Won · 50th Academy Awards
The Goodbye Girl
Source: Wikidata
Golden Globe Awards · Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1978 · Won
The Goodbye Girl
Source: Wikidata
Golden Globe Awards · Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1977 · Won
The Goodbye Girl
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actor in a Leading Role
1996 · Nominated · 68th Academy Awards
Mr. Holland's Opus
Source: Wikidata

Characters

8

The characters Richard Dreyfuss played, best-known titles first.

Richard Dreyfuss as Matt Hooper

Richard Dreyfuss as Matthew Boyd

Richard Dreyfuss as Det. Chris Lecce

Richard Dreyfuss as Pug Rothbaum

Richard Dreyfuss as Det. Chris Lecce

Richard Dreyfuss as Dr. Jake Rainer

Richard Dreyfuss as Arlen Cox

Richard Dreyfuss as Professor Hillside

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 98 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Richard Dreyfuss Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Violence
3.3, average 4.1
Uncanny
1.7, average 2.5
Scare
1.8, average 2.6
Adrenaline
4.1, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 15
Social Commentary 7
Situational Humor 5
Character Study 5
Nostalgic 3
Feel-Good Movie 3
Contemporary Realism 3
Romantic Comedy 3
Showbiz Satire 3
Quirky Characters 3
Moral Ambiguity 3
Redemption 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

137

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

3 titles

Happiness Isn't Everything

68

TV show · as Jerry Hamburger

Ocean of Fear

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

Killing Winston Jones

as Winston Jones

2020s

8 titles · average score 46

Into the Deep

26

as Seamus

Waltzing with Brando

56

as Seymour Kraft

Sweetwater

39

as Maurice Podoloff

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony

69

as Narrator (voice)

Murder at Yellowstone City

42

as Edgar

Save Christmas

82

as Santa

Every Last One of Them

30

as Murphy

Crime Story

22

as Ben Myers

2010s

23 titles · average score 53

The Last Laugh

44

as Buddy Green

Daughter of the Wolf

36

as Father

Astronaut

52

as Angus

Asher

53

as Avi

Bayou Caviar

37

as Yuri

Madoff

64

TV show · as Bernie Madoff

Your Family or Mine

56

TV show · as Louis

Zipper

39

as George Hiller

Squatters

57

as David Silverman

Paranoia

33

as Frank Cassidy

Cas & Dylan

44

as Dr. Cas Pepper

RED

67

as Alexander Dunning

2000s

25 titles · average score 56

My Life in Ruins

41

as Irv Gideon

Leaves of Grass

60

as Pug Rothbaum

The Lightkeepers

35

as Seth

Tin Man

61

TV show · as Mystic Man

Poseidon

47

as Richard Nelson

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

76

as Narrator

Coast to Coast

51

as Barnaby Pierce

The Education of Max Bickford

67

TV show · as Max Bickford

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

64

as Antonio Bolivar

The Day Reagan Was Shot

62

as Alexander Haig

The Crew

34

as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator

Fail Safe

86

as President

1990s

29 titles · average score 61

Lansky

44

as Meyer Lansky

Krippendorf's Tribe

29

as Prof. Krippendorf

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

66

as Narrator (voice)

James and the Giant Peach

75

as Centipede (voice)

Mad Dog Time

36

as Vic

Mr. Holland's Opus

69

as Glenn Holland

Silent Fall

40

as Dr. Jake Rainer

Another Stakeout

36

as Det. Chris Lecce

Lost in Yonkers

69

as Louie Kurnitz

What About Bob?

68

as Dr. Leo Marvin

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

68

as The Player

Once Around

68

as Sam Sharpe

1980s

13 titles · average score 63

Always

61

as Pete Sandich

Let It Ride

49

as Jay Trotter

Moon Over Parador

48

as Jack Noah

Stakeout

71

as Det. Chris Lecce

Tin Men

72

as Bill 'BB' Babowsky

Nuts

54

as Aaron Levinsky

Citizen Steve

as Jedediah

Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville

Producer, Writer

Down and Out in Beverly Hills

68

as Dave Whiteman

The Buddy System

53

as Joe

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

71

as Ken Harrison

The Competition

65

as Paul Dietrich

1970s

17 titles · average score 66

The Big Fix

74

as Moses Wine

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

83

as Roy Neary

The Goodbye Girl

72

as Elliot Garfield

Victory at Entebbe

57

as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu

Jaws

83

as Hooper

Inserts

64

as Boy Wonder

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

80

as Duddy

The Second Coming of Suzanne

38

as Clavius

American Graffiti

85

as Curt Henderson

Catch-22

as Yossarian

as Greg

The Shadow of a Gunman

as Tommy Owen

1960s

18 titles · average score 63

Hello Down There

59

as Harold Webster

Room 222

69

TV show

The Mod Squad

43

TV show

The Graduate

81

as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)

Judd, for the Defense

76

TV show

That Girl

45

TV show

Felony Squad

69

TV show

The Big Valley

69

TV show · as Lud

Gidget

45

TV show

Bewitched

75

TV show

Karen

TV show · as David Rowe III

Ben Casey

65

TV show

1950s

1 title · average score 76

Gunsmoke

76

TV show · as Gearshon Gorofsky