Richard Dreyfuss Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Richard Dreyfuss filmography covers 79 movie titles and 17 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Richard Dreyfuss movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• The Graduate (1967) as Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
• Valley of the Dolls (1967) as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)
• American Graffiti (1973) as Curt Henderson
• Dillinger (1973) as Baby Face Nelson
• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) as Duddy
• Inserts (1975) as Boy Wonder
• Jaws (1975) as Hooper
• Victory at Entebbe (1976) as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) as Roy Neary
• The Goodbye Girl (1977) as Elliot Garfield
• The Sentinel (1977) as Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
• The Big Fix (1978) as Moses Wine
• The Competition (1980) as Paul Dietrich
• Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) as Ken Harrison
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) as Dave Whiteman
• Stand by Me (1986) as The Writer
• Nuts (1987) as Aaron Levinsky
• Stakeout (1987) as Det. Chris Lecce
• Tin Men (1987) as Bill 'BB' Babowsky
• Moon Over Parador (1988) as Jack Noah
• Always (1989) as Pete Sandich
• Let It Ride (1989) as Jay Trotter
• Postcards from the Edge (1990) as Dr. Frankenthal
• Once Around (1991) as Sam Sharpe
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1991) as The Player
• What About Bob? (1991) as Dr. Leo Marvin
• Another Stakeout (1993) as Det. Chris Lecce
• Lost in Yonkers (1993) as Louie Kurnitz
• Silent Fall (1994) as Dr. Jake Rainer
• Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) as Glenn Holland
• The American President (1995) as Senator Rumson
• The Making of 'Jaws' (1995) as Self
• James and the Giant Peach (1996) as Centipede (voice)
• Mad Dog Time (1996) as Vic
• Night Falls on Manhattan (1997) as Sam Vigoda
• Oliver Twist (1997) as Fagin
• The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997) as Narrator (voice)
• Krippendorf's Tribe (1998) as Prof. Krippendorf
• Lansky (1999) as Meyer Lansky
• Fail Safe (2000) as President
• The Crew (2000) as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
• Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me (2000) as Self
• R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001) as Self
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (2001) as Scoop the Snowman (voice)
• Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001) as Micah Donnelly
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) as Self
• Silver City (2004) as Chuck Raven
• Poseidon (2006) as Richard Nelson
• W. (2008) as Dick Cheney
• I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009) as Self
• Leaves of Grass (2009) as Pug Rothbaum
• My Life in Ruins (2009) as Irv Gideon
• The Lightkeepers (2009) as Seth
• The Shark Is Still Working (2009) as Self
• Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009) as David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
• Piranha 3D (2010) as Matthew Boyd
• RED (2010) as Alexander Dunning
• Casting By (2012) as Self
• Cas & Dylan (2013) as Dr. Cas Pepper
• Milius (2013) as Self
• Paranoia (2013) as Frank Cassidy
• Very Good Girls (2013) as Danny
• Squatters (2014) as David Silverman
• Zipper (2015) as George Hiller
• Spielberg (2017) as Self
• Asher (2018) as Avi
• Bayou Caviar (2018) as Yuri
• Book Club (2018) as George
• Astronaut (2019) as Angus
• Daughter of the Wolf (2019) as Father
• Polar (2019) as Porter
• The Last Laugh (2019) as Buddy Green
• Audrey (2020) as Self - Actor
• Crime Story (2021) as Ben Myers
• Every Last One of Them (2021) as Murphy
• Murder at Yellowstone City (2022) as Edgar
• Sweetwater (2023) as Maurice Podoloff
• Into the Deep (2025) as Seamus
• Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story (2025) as Self

Richard Dreyfuss television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Richard Dreyfuss; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• Bewitched
• Bubble Guppies as Captain Acrab
• Coma as Professor Hillside
• Family Guy as Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice); Richard Dreyfuss (voice)
• Great Performances as Self
• Gunsmoke as Gearshon Gorofsky
• Madoff as Bernie Madoff
• Parenthood as Gilliam T. Blount
• Shots Fired as Arlen Cox
• That Girl
• The Big Valley as Lud
• The Mod Squad
• The Oscars as Self
• The Real History of Science Fiction as Self
• The Wonderful World of Disney
• Tin Man as Mystic Man
• Weeds as Warren Schiff

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Richard Dreyfuss's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.