Richard Dreyfuss

Q: Has Richard Dreyfuss won any awards?

Yes, Richard Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in 'The Goodbye Girl' in 1978. He has also received multiple nominations and other accolades throughout his career.

Q: What was Richard Dreyfuss's first film?

Richard Dreyfuss's first film was 'The Graduate' in 1967, where he had a small role. This marked the beginning of his successful career in film.

Q: How many children does Richard Dreyfuss have?

Richard Dreyfuss has three children. Their names are Emily, Harry, and Ben, and he shares them with his current wife, Laura Shweky.

Q: What is Richard Dreyfuss's estimated net worth?

Richard Dreyfuss's estimated net worth is around $10 million. This reflects his successful acting career spanning several decades.

Q: What is a notable milestone in Richard Dreyfuss's filmography?

A notable milestone in Richard Dreyfuss's filmography is his role in 'Jaws', which is considered a classic horror film and a major box office success, solidifying his status as a leading actor.

Q: What genre of films is Richard Dreyfuss known for?

Richard Dreyfuss is known for his work in both comedy and drama. He has successfully transitioned between genres, showcasing his versatility as an actor.

Q: Is Richard Dreyfuss involved in any philanthropic work?

Yes, Richard Dreyfuss is involved in various philanthropic efforts, particularly focused on education and civic engagement, promoting the importance of democracy and participation.

Known for

Close Encounters of the Third Kind poster

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

IMDb 7.6 / 10

1977 / Drama, Sci-Fi / 138 min

After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to...

Jaws (1975)

IMDb 8.1 / 10

1975 / Adventure, Thriller / 124 min

When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to...

American Graffiti (1973)

IMDb 7.4 / 10

1973 / Comedy, Drama / 110 min

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

Name

Richard Dreyfuss

Height

5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)

Born

29 October 1947, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Spouses

Joyce Cohen (1980–1983), Laura Shweky (1999–present)

Children

3 (Emily, Harry, and Ben)

Parents

Gertrude Dreyfuss, Norman Dreyfuss

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie Waltzing with Brando The story of how Marlon Brando plucked Bernard Judge, an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architect from his stable existence...	Seymour Kraft	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2025	Movie Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story The authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premiere. Featuring rare archival footage and interviews...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2025	Movie Into the Deep Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a killer great white is...	Seamus	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2023	Movie Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life "Bewitched" remains beloved nearly 60 years after its debut. The series lead, Elizabeth Montgomery, was a complex, strong-willed woman whose...	Self	Not rated
2023	Movie Sweetwater In 1990 Chicago, a taxi driver recounts to his passenger, a sportswriter, his life story. He reveals himself to be...	Maurice Podoloff	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2023	Movie Commitment to Life Against a rich Hollywood backdrop, "Commitment to Life" documents the true story of the fight against HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2022	Movie Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony Never-before-heard trial testimony reveals shocking new details about World War II and the inner workings of the Nazi war machine.	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2022	Movie Save Christmas Grumpy Dad dislikes Christmas while mum and kids strive to save Santa from animated villain's captivity through solving 8 digital...	Santa	Not rated
2022	Movie Murder at Yellowstone City A former slave who arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decline, looking for a...	Edgar	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2021	Movie Every Last One of Them Desperate to find his missing daughter, a man tracks her last known whereabouts to a small desert town only to...	Murphy	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2021	Movie Crime Story When ex-mob boss Ben Myers is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of vengeance. But...	Ben Myers	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2020	Movie Audrey An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).	Self - Actor	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2020	Movie Jaws Toy Movie When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to the local police...	Matt Hooper (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2020	TV Stars in the House In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky...	Self	Not rated
2019	Movie Astronaut A lonely widower battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to space.	Angus	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2019	Movie Daughter of the Wolf Ex-military specialist Clair Hamilton returns home from her tour in the Middle East due to her father's passing and to...	Father	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2019	Movie Polar When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game...	Porter	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2019	Movie The Last Laugh After moving to a retirement home, restless talent manager Al reconnects with long-ago client Buddy and coaxes him back out...	Buddy Green	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2018	Movie Asher Asher is a former Mossad agent turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brooklyn. Approaching the...	Avi	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2018	Movie Bayou Caviar Rodney is a former boxing champ who, after a deathbed visit to his trainer and mentor, is propelled into reclaiming...	Yuri	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2018	TV Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Join author, activist and commentator Margaret Hoover for a public affairs talk show that delivers a civil and engaging contest...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2018	Movie Third Party President: Citizen Rocky This feature length high definition documentary follows one of the Nation's most controversial yet progressive leaders, 2012 Presidential candidate and...	Self	Not rated
2018	Movie Book Club Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their...	George	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2018	TV The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer Four different celebrities all aim to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their baking skills.	Self - Guest	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2017	Movie Spielberg A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.	Self	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2017	TV Shots Fired A media storm sets off when an African-American cop kills a white teenager in a small North Carolina town.	Arlen Cox	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2016	TV Madoff The rise and fall of Bernie Madoff, who's Ponzi scheme bilked $65 billion from unsuspecting victims.	Bernie Madoff	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2015	Movie Zipper Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political...	George Hiller	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2015	TV Your Family or Mine Oliver and Kelli are living proof of the old saying, "When you marry someone, you don't just marry them, you...	Louis	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2014	Movie Squatters A wealthy couple from the Pacific Palisades discovers homeless young lovers have moved into their home.	David Silverman	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	TV The Real History of Science Fiction The series heads to the very frontiers of space and science to produce the definitive television history of science fiction,...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2014	Movie Caserta Palace Dream The greatest dream of a unique woman, Maria, future Queen of Spain and wife of Charles King of Naples and...	Luigi Vanvitelli	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2013	Movie Cas & Dylan A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds...	Dr. Cas Pepper	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2013	Movie Paranoia An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price—he must spy...	Frank Cassidy	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2013	Movie Milius The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation.	Self	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2013	Movie Very Good Girls Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school....	Danny	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2012	Movie Casting By This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a...	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2012	TV Coma A young medical student discovers that something sinister is going on in her hospital after routine procedures send more than...	Professor Hillside	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2011	Movie The Two Million Year Old Boy A 9-year-old boy in South Africa discovers one of the greatest fossil finds of all time while taking a walk:...	Narrator	Not rated
2011	TV Bubble Guppies The adventures of seven fish-tailed kids- Molly, Gil, Oona, Deema, Nonny, Goby, and Zooli!	Captain Acrab	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2010	Movie RED After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old...	Alexander Dunning	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2010	Movie Piranha 3D Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break...	Matthew Boyd	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2010	Movie Jaws: The Inside Story Steven Spielberg takes us behind the cameras for the making of a classic movie.	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2010	TV Parenthood The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.	Gilliam T. Blount	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	Movie The Lightkeepers Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal...	Seth	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2009	Movie Leaves of Grass An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local...	Pug Rothbaum	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2009	Movie Waking Sleeping Beauty By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between...	David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2009	Movie My Life in Ruins A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of...	Irv Gideon	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2009	Movie The Shark Is Still Working After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focuses on the many ways in which...	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2009	Movie I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale John Cazale was in only five films – The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Day Afternoon and...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2009	Movie American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist Activist, lover, visionary, renegade - For 75 years, Abe Osheroff fought on the front lines of social activism - from...	Self	Not rated
2008	Movie W. The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and...	Dick Cheney	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2008	Movie America Betrayed Writer/director Leslie Carde finds her villain in the US Army Corps of Engineers, an agency whose primary aim is supposed...	Narrator	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2007	TV Tin Man Small-town waitress DG is pulled into a magical realm called the Outer Zone, ruled by the tyrannical Azkadellia. Together with...	Mystic Man	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2007	Movie Ocean of Fear Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Ever is a Movie that launched the 20th anniversary of the Discovery Channel's Shark...	Narrator	Not rated
2007	Movie Spielberg on Spielberg Film critic Richard Schickel interviews Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg about his craft, his body of work and the movie business.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2007	Movie AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition 10th Anniversary of the 100 greatest films as chosen by the American Film Institute.	Self	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2007	Movie The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo Cinematographer John A. Alonzo was one of the driving creative forces in the resurgence of expressionistic American movies of the...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2006	Movie Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters Hollywoods biggest talents explore what is the recipe for blockbuster, flops, and how absolute happenstance and controlled luck can make...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2006	Movie The Dish on Dolls Stories about the filming of the cult classic, Valley of the Dolls (1967)	Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)	Not rated
2006	Movie Poseidon A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin...	Richard Nelson	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2005	TV The Reichen Show A list of celebrity interviews and sensational topics.	Self	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2005	TV Weeds After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.	Warren Schiff	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2005	Movie The Adventures of Errol Flynn A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.	Self - Actor	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2004	Movie Silver City The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's...	Chuck Raven	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2004	Movie A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded by director Francis Ford Coppola.	Narrator	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2004	Movie Coast to Coast Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. Their son is getting...	Barnaby Pierce	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	Movie Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion This thorough documentary covers the life of President Theodore Roosevelt, from his birth until his death.	Theodore Roosevelt	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2003	Movie Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last...	Self	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2003	Movie The John Garfield Story This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at...	Self	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2003	Movie The Johnstown Flood On a stormy day in May of 1889, the South Fork Dam impounding Conemaugh Lake exploded, unleashing a 40-foot wall...	narrator	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2002	Movie Manassas: End of Innocence As the first major land battle of the American Civil War, the First Battle of Manassas, fought on July 21,...	Narrator	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2001	Movie The Day Reagan Was Shot The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film stars Richard...	Alexander Haig	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2001	Movie R2-D2: Beneath the Dome Mockumentary telling the never before told life story of the fictional robot R2-D2 from the Star Wars film series. The...	Self	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2001	Movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys When the mysterious Toy Taker grabs all of Santa's toys, it looks like the children will miss out on Christmas....	Scoop the Snowman (voice)	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2001	TV The Education of Max Bickford The Education of Max Bickford is a television drama that aired from 2001 to 2002 on CBS. It starred Richard...	Max Bickford	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2001	Movie In Search of Peace In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel's first two decades, offering new insights on the origins of the Middle East...	Yitzhak Rabin (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2001	Movie Who Is Cletis Tout? With a hitman’s gun aimed at him, Finch tells the story of how he broke out of jail, fell in...	Micah Donnelly	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2001	Movie The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2001	Movie The Old Man Who Read Love Stories In El Idilio, a village on the banks of a river in the Amazon rainforest, Antonio Bolívar, known to everyone...	Antonio Bolivar	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2000	Movie Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me A unique look at the making of Stand by Me including interviews from Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard...	Self	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2000	Movie The Crew Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.	Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2000	Movie Fail Safe Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead...	President	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1999	TV Where Are They Now? Where Are They Now? was a television series on VH1 that featured past celebrities and updated on their current professional...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1999	Movie Lansky Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for some country that...	Meyer Lansky	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1999	TV Family Guy Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and...	Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1999	TV Family Guy Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and...	Richard Dreyfuss (voice)	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1998	Movie Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude It was one of humankind's most epic quests - a technical problem so complex that it challenged the best minds...	Narrator	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1998	Movie The Making of 'American Graffiti' Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film American Graffiti (1973)	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1998	Movie Krippendorf's Tribe After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of...	Prof. Krippendorf	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1998	TV The Entertainment Biz A vivid six-part portrait of the global entertainment industry.	Self	Not rated
1997	TV The Wonderful World of Disney Walt Disney Productions (later The Walt Disney Company) has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954....	Unknown character	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1997	TV The View ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1997	Movie The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon Jack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and taken to the...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1997	Movie Frank Capra's American Dream A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1997	Movie Oliver Twist When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's...	Fagin	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1997	TV HARDtalk In-depth interviews with hard-hitting questions and sensitive topics being covered as famous personalities from all walks of life talk about...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.7 / 10
1997	Movie Night Falls on Manhattan A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father...	Sam Vigoda	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1997	Movie Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady The story of how Audrey Hepburn survived World War II, became an award winning actress, and gave back to the...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1997	Movie Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero Profiling the life and career of actor Henry Fonda, who starred in such film classics as "The Grapes of Wrath"...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	Movie In the Teeth of Jaws BBC documentary about the making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws.	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	Movie Mad Dog Time With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten...	Vic	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1996	TV The Daily Show The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1996	TV The Rosie O'Donnell Show The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell....	Self - Guest	TMDB 4.1 / 10
1996	Movie The Universal Story Richard Dreyfuss hosts a celebration of the 80 year history of Universal Studios. Founded as IMP by Carl Leammle to...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	Movie James and the Giant Peach When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a...	Centipede (voice)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1995	Movie Mr. Holland's Opus In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a...	Glenn Holland	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1995	Movie The Making of 'Jaws' A documentary on the making of one of the greatest films ever made, filled with trivia, interviews from cast and...	Self	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1995	Movie The American President Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what...	Senator Rumson	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1995	TV The Frank Skinner Show The Frank Skinner Show was a television chat show hosted by comedian Frank Skinner, which lasted nine series on British...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1995	Movie The Last Word With his marriage in trouble and his best friend in dds ts the Mob, journalist Martin Ryan (TIMOTHY HUTTON) goes...	Larry	TMDB 3.3 / 10
1994	Movie Silent Fall Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr....	Dr. Jake Rainer	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1994	Movie It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get enough of it...	Self	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1994	TV Inside the Actors Studio James Lipton sits down with some of the world's most accomplished actors and directors for penetrating, fascinating interviews.	Self	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1993	Movie Another Stakeout A pair of immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lakeside home where...	Det. Chris Lecce	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1993	Movie Lost in Yonkers In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike...	Louie Kurnitz	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1992	Movie Lincoln Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.	William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1992	TV The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Jay Leno hosts some of the biggest celebrities in the world.	Unknown character	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1992	TV Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories Actress Shelley Duvall presents charming animated versions of some of the most beloved children's stories in this superb Emmy-nominated collection...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 9.5 / 10
1991	Movie Prisoner of Honor France, 1897: Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that leads to the imprisonment...	Col. Picquart	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1991	Movie What About Bob? Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley....	Dr. Leo Marvin	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1991	Movie Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest...	The Player	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1991	Movie Once Around Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate,...	Sam Sharpe	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1990	Movie Postcards from the Edge A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her...	Dr. Frankenthal	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1990	TV American Chronicles A three-month series of documentaries, hosted by actor Richard Dreyfuss, look at some of the more unusual aspects of American...	narrator	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1989	Movie Always The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the...	Pete Sandich	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1989	Movie Let It Ride An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems...	Jay Trotter	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1988	Movie Moon Over Parador Underappreciated actor Jack Noah is on location in Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right-hand man makes...	Jack Noah	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1987	Movie Nuts A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.	Aaron Levinsky	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1987	Movie Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, including new animation done...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1987	Movie Stakeout Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.	Det. Chris Lecce	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1987	Movie James Stewart: A Wonderful Life Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1987	Movie Tin Men A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.	Bill 'BB' Babowsky	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1987	Movie Citizen Steve On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive reporter Clip Maxwell attempts to...	Jedediah	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1986	Movie Stand by Me After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go...	The Writer	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1986	Movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to...	Dave Whiteman	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1985	Movie Night of 100 Stars II This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1984	Movie The Buddy System A school truant officer uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake his residential address and subsequently befriends the kid and...	Joe	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1981	Movie Whose Life Is It Anyway? Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and...	Ken Harrison	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1980	Movie The Competition The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete,...	Paul Dietrich	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1978	Movie The Big Fix Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets...	Moses Wine	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1977	Movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something...	Roy Neary	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1977	Movie The Goodbye Girl After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with...	Elliot Garfield	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1977	Movie The Sentinel As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion...	Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1977	Movie The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' Documentary of the making of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1977)	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1977	Movie The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play A promotional short for The Goodbye Girl. It takes a behind the scenes look at the production, with a focus...	Unknown character	Not rated
1976	Movie Victory at Entebbe The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now...	Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1975	TV Saturday Night Live A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary...	Self - Host	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1975	Movie Jaws When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of...	Hooper	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1975	Movie Inserts A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his...	Boy Wonder	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1974	Movie New England Our Way The program is a fascinating look some at the key people involved with JAWS before it was released. It contains...	Self	Not rated
1974	Movie The Second Coming of Suzanne Jared Martin plays an aspiring film maker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to film...	Clavius	TMDB 3.0 / 10
1974	Movie The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in...	Duddy	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1973	Movie Me Tomby, a challenged teenage boy, manipulates his family who cater to his every desire. Only his twin brother Greg treats...	Greg	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1973	Movie American Graffiti A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off...	Curt Henderson	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1973	Movie Dillinger After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men...	Baby Face Nelson	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1973	Movie Catch-22 Bombardier Yossarian is stationed on the small island of Pianosa during World War II. In addition to the enemy trying...	Yossarian	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1973	TV A Touch of Grace Shirley Booth stars as Grace Simpson, a woman older in years but considerably younger in spirit than her family —...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1972	Movie The Shadow of a Gunman Is a sensitive and mysterious poet really an IRA gunman in hiding? Set in a Dublin tenement in the 1920s,...	Tommy Owen	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1972	Movie Two for the Money Two cops, who have quit the police department to become private detectives and bounty hunters, hunt for a killer who...	Morris Gap	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1971	TV The New Dick Van Dyke Show The New Dick Van Dyke Show is an American sitcom starring Dick Van Dyke that aired on CBS from 1971...	Tony Injijikian	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1971	TV Great Performances The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical...	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1970	TV Treffpunkte	Self	Not rated
1969	TV The New People The New People is a short-lived 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1969	TV Room 222	Unknown character	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1969	Movie Hello Down There Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take...	Harold Webster	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1968	TV The Mod Squad The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968,...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1968	Movie The Young Runaways Three unhappy teenagers run away from home, only to discover living on their own isn't as idyllic as they imagined.	Terry	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1967	Movie Valley of the Dolls Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover...	Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1967	Movie The Graduate A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.	Boarding House Resident (uncredited)	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1967	TV Judd, for the Defense High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.	Unknown character	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1967	TV The Second Hundred Years	Ben Jr.	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1966	TV Occasional Wife	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1966	TV Felony Squad Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis.	Unknown character	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1966	TV Hey Landlord! Hey, Landlord is an American sitcom appearing on NBC during the 1966-1967 season, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in the...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1966	TV That Girl That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1965	TV The Big Valley The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19,...	Lud	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1965	TV Gidget Gidget is an American sitcom about a surfing, boy-crazy teenager called "Gidget" and her widowed father Russ Lawrence, a UCLA...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1964	TV Karen Karen is one of three NBC sitcoms set in a California apartment complex located at 90 Bristol Court. It stars...	David Rowe III	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1964	TV Bewitched Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1962	TV The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1961	TV The Mike Douglas Show The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in...	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1961	TV Ben Casey	Unknown character	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1955	TV Gunsmoke Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The...	Gearshon Gorofsky	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
TBA	TV Happiness Isn't Everything	Jerry Hamburger	Not rated
TBA	TV Ocean of Fear Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Ever is a television program that launched the 20th anniversary of the Discovery Channel's...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Killing Winston Jones Ethan Jones, a 6th-grade English teacher, is on a mission to get the newly constructed Junior High gymnasium named after...	Winston Jones	Not rated
TBA	Movie I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to be recognized...	Self	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2022	Movie Murder at Yellowstone City A former slave who arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decline, looking for a...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2021	Movie Every Last One of Them Desperate to find his missing daughter, a man tracks her last known whereabouts to a small desert town only to...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2021	Movie Crime Story When ex-mob boss Ben Myers is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of vengeance. But...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2019	Movie Astronaut A lonely widower battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to space.	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1997	Movie Oliver Twist When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's...	Co-Producer Production	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1995	Movie Present Tense, Past Perfect Richard Dreyfuss-directed short film.	Director Directing	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1994	Movie Quiz Show Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.'...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1991	Movie Once Around Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate,...	Co-Producer Production	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1987	Movie Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, including new animation done...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1987	Movie Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, including new animation done...	Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1978	Movie The Big Fix Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.8 / 10

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Jaws (1975)

American Graffiti (1973)

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