Richard Dreyfuss: movies and TV shows
Richard Dreyfuss has 199 credits in the archive: 146 films and 53 TV series, from 1953 to 2025. Highest rated: HARDtalk (8.7/10).
Career timeline
1953 – 2025 · busiest year: 1997 (11 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Into the Deep | Seamus | Film | 5.9 | 77 |
| 2025 | Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story | Self | Film | 7.5 | 77 |
| 2025 | Waltzing with Brando | Seymour Kraft | Film | 5.7 | 77 |
| 2023 | Sweetwater | Maurice Podoloff | Film | 6.9 | 75 |
| 2023 | Commitment to Life | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 75 |
| 2023 | Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2022 | Murder at Yellowstone City | Edgar | Film | 5.5 | 74 |
| 2022 | Murder at Yellowstone City | Film | 5.5 | 74 | |
| 2022 | Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.9 | 74 |
| 2022 | Save Christmas | Santa | Film | — | 74 |
| 2021 | Every Last One of Them | Murphy | Film | 5.2 | 73 |
| 2021 | Every Last One of Them | Film | 5.2 | 73 | |
| 2021 | Crime Story | Ben Myers | Film | 3.8 | 73 |
| 2021 | Crime Story | Film | 3.8 | 73 | |
| 2020 | Stars in the House | Self | TV | — | 72 |
| 2020 | Audrey | Self - Actor | Film | 7.1 | 72 |
| 2019 | Polar | Porter | Film | 6.4 | 71 |
| 2019 | Daughter of the Wolf | Father | Film | 5.5 | 71 |
| 2019 | The Last Laugh | Buddy Green | Film | 5.4 | 71 |
| 2019 | Astronaut | Angus | Film | 6.1 | 71 |
| 2019 | Astronaut | Film | 6.1 | 71 | |
| 2018 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | Self | TV | 8.0 | 70 |
| 2018 | The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer | Self - Guest | TV | 7.1 | 70 |
| 2018 | Book Club | George | Film | 6.2 | 70 |
| 2018 | Bayou Caviar | Yuri | Film | 4.6 | 70 |
| 2018 | Asher | Avi | Film | 5.8 | 70 |
| 2018 | Third Party President: Citizen Rocky | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2017 | Shots Fired | Arlen Cox | TV | 5.7 | 69 |
| 2017 | Spielberg | Self | Film | 7.6 | 69 |
| 2016 | Madoff | Bernie Madoff | TV | 6.4 | 68 |
| 2015 | Zipper | George Hiller | Film | 5.5 | 67 |
| 2015 | Your Family or Mine | Louis | TV | 6.5 | 67 |
| 2014 | The Real History of Science Fiction | Self | TV | 7.0 | 66 |
| 2014 | Caserta Palace Dream | Luigi Vanvitelli | Film | 6.0 | 66 |
| 2014 | Squatters | David Silverman | Film | 6.0 | 66 |
| 2013 | Paranoia | Frank Cassidy | Film | 5.7 | 65 |
| 2013 | Very Good Girls | Danny | Film | 5.8 | 65 |
| 2013 | Milius | Self | Film | 7.1 | 65 |
| 2013 | Cas & Dylan | Dr. Cas Pepper | Film | 6.3 | 65 |
| 2012 | Coma | Professor Hillside | TV | 6.4 | 64 |
| 2012 | Casting By | Self | Film | 6.9 | 64 |
| 2011 | Bubble Guppies | Captain Acrab | TV | 7.6 | 63 |
| 2011 | The Two Million Year Old Boy | Narrator | Film | — | 63 |
| 2010 | Parenthood | Gilliam T. Blount | TV | 7.5 | 62 |
| 2010 | RED | Alexander Dunning | Film | 6.7 | 62 |
| 2010 | Piranha 3D | Matthew Boyd | Film | 5.4 | 62 |
| 2010 | Jaws: The Inside Story | Self | Film | 7.3 | 62 |
| 2009 | Waking Sleeping Beauty | David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 61 |
| 2009 | Leaves of Grass | Pug Rothbaum | Film | 6.0 | 61 |
| 2009 | My Life in Ruins | Irv Gideon | Film | 6.1 | 61 |
| 2009 | The Shark Is Still Working | Self | Film | 7.3 | 61 |
| 2009 | The Lightkeepers | Seth | Film | 5.8 | 61 |
| 2009 | American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist | Self | Film | — | 61 |
| 2009 | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self | Film | 6.9 | 61 |
| 2008 | W. | Dick Cheney | Film | 6.1 | 60 |
| 2008 | America Betrayed | Narrator | Film | 6.0 | 60 |
| 2007 | Tin Man | Mystic Man | TV | 6.7 | 59 |
| 2007 | Spielberg on Spielberg | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 59 |
| 2007 | Ocean of Fear | Narrator | Film | — | 59 |
| 2007 | AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition | Self | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 2007 | The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo | Self | Film | 6.0 | 59 |
| 2006 | Poseidon | Richard Nelson | Film | 5.9 | 58 |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Self | Film | 6.5 | 58 |
| 2006 | The Dish on Dolls | Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage) | Film | — | 58 |
| 2005 | Weeds | Warren Schiff | TV | 7.5 | 57 |
| 2005 | The Reichen Show | Self | TV | 4.8 | 57 |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | Self - Actor | Film | 7.7 | 57 |
| 2004 | Silver City | Chuck Raven | Film | 6.1 | 56 |
| 2004 | Coast to Coast | Barnaby Pierce | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 2004 | A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope | Narrator | Film | 7.6 | 56 |
| 2003 | Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion | Theodore Roosevelt | Film | 6.0 | 55 |
| 2003 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self | Film | 7.1 | 55 |
| 2003 | The Johnstown Flood | narrator | Film | 7.5 | 55 |
| 2003 | The John Garfield Story | Self | Film | 8.4 | 55 |
| 2002 | Manassas: End of Innocence | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 54 |
| 2001 | The Education of Max Bickford | Max Bickford | TV | 4.0 | 53 |
| 2001 | R2-D2: Beneath the Dome | Self | Film | 6.7 | 53 |
| 2001 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys | Scoop the Snowman (voice) | Film | 5.9 | 53 |
| 2001 | The Day Reagan Was Shot | Alexander Haig | Film | 6.5 | 53 |
| 2001 | Who Is Cletis Tout? | Micah Donnelly | Film | 5.8 | 53 |
| 2001 | In Search of Peace | Yitzhak Rabin (voice) | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 2001 | The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | Antonio Bolivar | Film | 6.7 | 53 |
| 2001 | The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' | Self | Film | 7.1 | 53 |
| 2000 | The Crew | Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator | Film | 5.4 | 52 |
| 2000 | Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me | Self | Film | 7.6 | 52 |
| 2000 | Fail Safe | President | Film | 6.9 | 52 |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Richard Dreyfuss / Narrator (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 51 |
| 1999 | Family Guy | Richard Dreyfuss (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 51 |
| 1999 | Where Are They Now? | Self | TV | 7.5 | 51 |
| 1999 | Lansky | Meyer Lansky | Film | 5.6 | 51 |
| 1998 | The Entertainment Biz | Self | TV | — | 50 |
| 1998 | Krippendorf's Tribe | Prof. Krippendorf | Film | 4.6 | 50 |
| 1998 | The Making of 'American Graffiti' | Self | Film | 7.8 | 50 |
| 1998 | Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 50 |
| 1997 | The View | Self | TV | 4.3 | 49 |
| 1997 | The Wonderful World of Disney | TV | 6.8 | 49 | |
| 1997 | HARDtalk | TV | 8.7 | 49 | |
| 1997 | Night Falls on Manhattan | Sam Vigoda | Film | 6.3 | 49 |
| 1997 | Frank Capra's American Dream | Self | Film | 6.3 | 49 |
| 1997 | In the Teeth of Jaws | Self | Film | 8.0 | 49 |
| 1997 | Oliver Twist | Fagin | Film | 6.2 | 49 |
| 1997 | Oliver Twist | Film | 6.2 | 49 | |
| 1997 | Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero | Self | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 1997 | The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 49 |
| 1997 | Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady | Self | Film | 8.0 | 49 |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | TV | 6.4 | 48 |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Self - Guest | TV | 4.1 | 48 |
| 1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Centipede (voice) | Film | 6.6 | 48 |
| 1996 | Mad Dog Time | Vic | Film | 5.3 | 48 |
| 1996 | The Universal Story | Self | Film | 8.0 | 48 |
| 1995 | The Frank Skinner Show | Self | TV | 7.5 | 47 |
| 1995 | The American President | Senator Rumson | Film | 6.5 | 47 |
| 1995 | Mr. Holland's Opus | Glenn Holland | Film | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1995 | The Last Word | Larry | Film | 3.3 | 47 |
| 1995 | The Making of 'Jaws' | Self | Film | 6.8 | 47 |
| 1995 | Present Tense, Past Perfect | Film | 9.0 | 47 | |
| 1994 | Quiz Show | Film | 7.3 | 46 | |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | TV | 7.6 | 46 |
| 1994 | Silent Fall | Dr. Jake Rainer | Film | 5.3 | 46 |
| 1994 | It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | Self | Film | 8.8 | 46 |
| 1993 | Another Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | Film | 5.4 | 45 |
| 1993 | Lost in Yonkers | Louie Kurnitz | Film | 6.3 | 45 |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | TV | 5.4 | 44 | |
| 1992 | Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories | Narrator (voice) | TV | 9.5 | 44 |
| 1992 | Lincoln | William Tecumsah Sherman (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 44 |
| 1991 | What About Bob? | Dr. Leo Marvin | Film | 6.9 | 43 |
| 1991 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | The Player | Film | 6.9 | 43 |
| 1991 | Once Around | Sam Sharpe | Film | 6.1 | 43 |
| 1991 | Once Around | Film | 6.1 | 43 | |
| 1991 | Prisoner of Honor | Col. Picquart | Film | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1990 | American Chronicles | narrator | TV | 8.0 | 42 |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Dr. Frankenthal | Film | 6.6 | 42 |
| 1989 | Always | Pete Sandich | Film | 6.2 | 41 |
| 1989 | Let It Ride | Jay Trotter | Film | 6.4 | 41 |
| 1988 | Moon Over Parador | Jack Noah | Film | 5.9 | 40 |
| 1987 | Tin Men | Bill 'BB' Babowsky | Film | 6.3 | 39 |
| 1987 | Stakeout | Det. Chris Lecce | Film | 6.5 | 39 |
| 1987 | Citizen Steve | Jedediah | Film | 6.0 | 39 |
| 1987 | Nuts | Aaron Levinsky | Film | 6.3 | 39 |
| 1987 | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self | Film | 6.5 | 39 |
| 1987 | Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | Self | Film | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1987 | Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | Film | 8.0 | 39 | |
| 1987 | Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville | Film | 8.0 | 39 | |
| 1986 | Stand by Me | The Writer | Film | 7.8 | 38 |
| 1986 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Dave Whiteman | Film | 5.9 | 38 |
| 1985 | Night of 100 Stars II | Self | Film | 6.8 | 37 |
| 1984 | The Buddy System | Joe | Film | 4.7 | 36 |
| 1981 | Whose Life Is It Anyway? | Ken Harrison | Film | 7.0 | 33 |
| 1980 | The Competition | Paul Dietrich | Film | 6.1 | 32 |
| 1978 | The Big Fix | Moses Wine | Film | 5.8 | 30 |
| 1978 | The Big Fix | Film | 5.8 | 30 | |
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Roy Neary | Film | 7.4 | 29 |
| 1977 | The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield | Film | 6.9 | 29 |
| 1977 | The Sentinel | Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 29 |
| 1977 | The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play | Film | — | 29 | |
| 1977 | The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl' | Self | Film | 10.0 | 29 |
| 1976 | Victory at Entebbe | Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu | Film | 5.1 | 28 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 27 |
| 1975 | Jaws | Hooper | Film | 7.7 | 27 |
| 1975 | Inserts | Boy Wonder | Film | 5.7 | 27 |
| 1974 | New England Our Way | Self | Film | — | 26 |
| 1974 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Duddy | Film | 6.0 | 26 |
| 1974 | The Second Coming of Suzanne | Clavius | Film | 3.0 | 26 |
| 1973 | American Graffiti | Curt Henderson | Film | 7.0 | 25 |
| 1973 | Catch-22 | Yossarian | Film | 6.7 | 25 |
| 1973 | Me | Greg | Film | 10.0 | 25 |
| 1973 | Dillinger | Baby Face Nelson | Film | 6.6 | 25 |
| 1973 | A Touch of Grace | TV | 6.0 | 25 | |
| 1972 | Two for the Money | Morris Gap | Film | 7.5 | 24 |
| 1972 | The Shadow of a Gunman | Tommy Owen | Film | 8.0 | 24 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self | TV | 6.1 | 23 |
| 1971 | The New Dick Van Dyke Show | Tony Injijikian | TV | 5.2 | 23 |
| 1970 | Treffpunkte | Self | TV | — | 22 |
| 1969 | Room 222 | TV | 6.1 | 21 | |
| 1969 | The New People | TV | 6.2 | 21 | |
| 1969 | Hello Down There | Harold Webster | Film | 5.9 | 21 |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad | TV | 6.1 | 20 | |
| 1968 | The Young Runaways | Terry | Film | 7.0 | 20 |
| 1967 | Judd, for the Defense | TV | 7.7 | 19 | |
| 1967 | The Graduate | Boarding House Resident (uncredited) | Film | 7.6 | 19 |
| 1967 | The Second Hundred Years | Ben Jr. | TV | 6.5 | 19 |
| 1967 | Valley of the Dolls | Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited) | Film | 6.0 | 19 |
| 1966 | That Girl | TV | 6.2 | 18 | |
| 1966 | Felony Squad | TV | 6.5 | 18 | |
| 1966 | Hey Landlord! | TV | 7.5 | 18 | |
| 1966 | Occasional Wife | TV | 8.0 | 18 | |
| 1965 | The Big Valley | Lud | TV | 6.2 | 17 |
| 1965 | Gidget | TV | 6.8 | 17 | |
| 1964 | Bewitched | TV | 7.9 | 16 | |
| 1964 | Karen | David Rowe III | TV | 5.3 | 16 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 14 |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | TV | 5.8 | 13 |
| 1961 | Ben Casey | TV | 5.9 | 13 | |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Gearshon Gorofsky | TV | 6.7 | 7 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 5 |
| Killing Winston Jones | Winston Jones | Film | — | — | |
| Happiness Isn't Everything | Jerry Hamburger | TV | — | — | |
| Ocean of Fear | Narrator (voice) | TV | 6.0 | — | |
| I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War | Self | Film | — | — |