Richard Dreyfuss
Actor
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Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is 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.
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Polar (2019)
As: Porter
When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Jonas Åkerlund
Stars: Katheryn Winnick | Mads Mikkelsen | Ruby O. Fee | Vanessa Hudgens | Fei Ren
The Last Laugh (2019)
As: Buddy Green
After moving to a retirement home, restless talent manager Al reconnects with long-ago client Buddy and coaxes him back out on the comedy circuit.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Greg Pritikin
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Andie MacDowell | Chris Parnell | Kate Micucci | Chevy Chase
Asher (2018)
As: Avi
Asher is a former Mossad agent turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brooklyn. Approaching the end of his career, he breaks the oath he took as a young man when he meets Sophie on a hit gone wrong. In order to have love in his life before it's too late, he must kill the man he was, for a chance at becoming the man he wants to be.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Ron Perlman | Famke Janssen | Peter Facinelli | Jacqueline Bisset
Book Club (2018)
As: George
Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Bill Holderman
Stars: Diane Keaton | Craig T. Nelson | Candice Bergen | Mary Steenburgen | Jane Fonda
Spielberg (2017)
As: Himself
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
Runtime: 147 min.
Directed by: Susan Lacy
Stars: Steven Spielberg | Tom Hanks | Richard Dreyfuss | Martin Scorsese | Francis Ford Coppola
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky (2016)
As: himself
This feature length high definition documentary follows one of the Nation's most controversial yet progressive leaders, 2012 Presidential candidate and Former two-term Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson.
Directed by: Rhea Gavry
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Larry King | Dennis Kucinich | Bill McKibben | Mary Mapes
Zipper (2015)
As: George Hiller
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experience with an escort turns into a growing addiction — a new demon threatening to destroy his life, family, and career.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Mora Stephens
Stars: Ray Winstone | Patrick Wilson | Lena Headey | Richard Dreyfuss | John Cho
Squatters (2014)
As: David Silverman
A wealthy couple from the Pacific Palisades discovers homeless young lovers have moved into their home.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Martin Weisz
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Luke Grimes | Thomas Dekker | Gabriella Wilde | Gia Mantegna
Caserta Palace Dream (2014)
As: Luigi Vanvitelli
The greatest dream of a unique woman, Maria, future Queen of Spain and wife of Charles King of Naples and Sicily and of a special man, the greatest architect of his time, Luigi Vanvitelli. Their Love goes beyond their own human existence and becomes real in the immeasurable beauty of the Royal Caserta Palace.
Runtime: 21 min.
Directed by: James McTeigue
Stars: Ennio Fantastichini | Richard Dreyfuss | Valerio Mastandrea | Kasia Smutniak | Emanuela Galliussi
Cas & Dylan (2013)
As: Dr. Cas Pepper
A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds up on the lam with an 'anything-but-normal' 22-year-old girl.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jason Priestley
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Aaron Poole | Natalie Radford | Tatiana Maslany
Paranoia (2013)
As: Frank Cassidy
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Robert Luketic
Stars: Gary Oldman | Harrison Ford | Liam Hemsworth | Amber Heard | Josh Holloway
Milius (2013)
As: Himself
The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Zak Knutson | Joey Figueroa
Stars: Steven Spielberg | George Lucas | Francis Ford Coppola | Robert Zemeckis | John Milius
Very Good Girls (2013)
As: Danny
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Dakota Fanning | Demi Moore | Boyd Holbrook | Elizabeth Olsen
RED (2010)
As: Alexander Dunning
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Stars: Karl Urban | Helen Mirren | Bruce Willis | Mary-Louise Parker | John Malkovich
Piranha 3D (2010)
As: Matthew Boyd
Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Alexandre Aja
Stars: Adam Scott | Elisabeth Shue | Jerry O'Connell | Jessica Szohr | Steven R. McQueen
The Lightkeepers (2009)
As: Seth
Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive women who move into a nearby cottage for the summer.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Daniel Adams
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Mamie Gummer | Blythe Danner | Bruce Dern | Tom Wisdom
Leaves of Grass (2009)
As: Pug Rothbaum
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Tim Blake Nelson
Stars: Edward Norton | Susan Sarandon | Richard Dreyfuss | Melanie Lynskey | Keri Russell
My Life in Ruins (2009)
As: Irv Gideon
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Harland Williams | Nia Vardalos | Alexis Georgoulis | Alistair McGowan
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
As: Himself
John Cazale was in only five films - The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather, Part Two, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter - each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today most people don't even know his name. I KNEW IT WAS YOU is a fresh tour through movies that defined a generation.
Runtime: 39 min.
Directed by: Richard Shepard
Stars: Robert De Niro | Olympia Dukakis | Meryl Streep | Al Pacino | John Cazale
W. (2008)
As: Dick Cheney
Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. W takes viewers through Bush’s eventful life -- his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush’s decision to invade Iraq.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Toby Jones | Ioan Gruffudd | Elizabeth Banks | Josh Brolin
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition (2007)
10th Anniversary of the 100 greatest films as chosen by the American Film Institute.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Gary Smith
Stars: Steven Spielberg | Richard Dreyfuss | Jodie Foster | Halle Berry | Jane Fonda
The Shark Is Still Working (2007)
As: Himself
After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focuses on the many ways Jaws has helped to shape common elements of pop culture
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Erik Hollander
Stars: Robert Rodriguez | Richard Dreyfuss | Eli Roth | Carl Gottlieb | Gregory Nicotero
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (2006)
As: Himself
In 1995, Stephen Fry was performing in Simon Gray's West End play, "Cell Mates." After three days, he walked out of the production. Sitting in a garage, his hand on the car ignition, he contemplated suicide for two hours, before fleeing his home country for the European mainland. It wasn't until this frightening episode that Fry was diagnosed with manic depression, ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Ross Wilson
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Stephen Fry | Carrie Fisher | Robbie Williams
Poseidon (2006)
As: Richard Nelson
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Stars: Kurt Russell | Jacinda Barrett | Josh Lucas | Richard Dreyfuss | Emmy Rossum
The Adventures of Errol Flynn (2005)
As: Himself - Actor
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: David Heeley
Stars: Ian Holm | Errol Flynn | Patrice Wymore | Vincent Sherman | Charles Chauvel
Silver City (2004)
As: Chuck Raven
The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: John Sayles
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Chris Cooper | Maria Bello | Thora Birch | Miguel Ferrer
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope (2004)
As: Narrator
A fascinating chronicle of the birth and rise of the radically different independent studio founded by director Francis Ford Coppola.
Runtime: 64 min.
Directed by: Gary Leva
Stars: Steven Spielberg | Richard Dreyfuss | George Lucas | Francis Ford Coppola | Robert Dalva
Coast to Coast (2004)
As: Barnaby Pierce
Contemporary story of a couple whose marriage has gone astray, partly due to the infidelity of both partners and also the fact that their eldest son was killed in a car accident 8 years before.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | John Salley | Judy Davis | Selma Blair
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion (2003)
As: Theodore Roosevelt
This thorough documentary covers the life of President Theodore Roosevelt, from his birth until his death.
Directed by: David De Vries
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Edward Herrmann | Alan M. Crane | Kent Hautanen
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (2003)
As: Himself
A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Bowser
Stars: William H. Macy | Peter Bogdanovich | Dennis Hopper | Margot Kidder | Paul Schrader
The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001)
As: Alexander Haig
The Day Reagan Was Shot is a 2001 film made for television directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss as Alexander Haig and Richard Crenna as Ronald Reagan.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Cyrus Nowrasteh
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Michael Murphy | Kenneth Welsh | Richard Crenna | Colm Feore
Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
As: Micah Donnelly
A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds that was stolen and subsequently hidden more than 20 years earlier.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Chris Ver Wiel
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Tim Allen | Christian Slater | Billy Connolly | Portia de Rossi
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Rolf de Heer
Stars: Hugo Weaving | Richard Dreyfuss | Timothy Spall | Cathy Tyson | Victor Bottenbley
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of 'Stand by Me' (2000)
As: Himself
A unique look at the making of Stand by Me including interviews from Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Keifer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss, and the three surviving cast members Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell.
Runtime: 37 min.
Directed by: Michael Gillis
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Jerry O'Connell | Rob Reiner | Corey Feldman | Stephen King
The Crew (2000)
As: Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Michael Dinner
Stars: Carrie-Anne Moss | Seymour Cassel | Richard Dreyfuss | Dan Hedaya | Burt Reynolds
Fail Safe (2000)
As: President
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: Sam Elliott | Brian Dennehy | Richard Dreyfuss | Noah Wyle | Walter Cronkite
Lansky (1999)
As: Meyer Lansky
This is the telling of the life of organized crime boss, Meyer Lansky, as remembered by him as a very old man who is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the US courts have put out an extradition order for him to stand trial. It tells of a young man growing up in the Jewish ghettos of America's big cities at the turn of the century and of his bright intelligence which ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: John McNaughton
Stars: Eric Roberts | Richard Dreyfuss | Illeana Douglas | Beverly D'Angelo | Anthony LaPaglia
Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
As: Prof. Krippendorf
After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Todd Holland
Stars: Siobhan Fallon Hogan | Richard Dreyfuss | Natasha Lyonne | Jenna Elfman | Zakes Mokae
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997)
As: Narrator (voice)
Jack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and taken to the Yukon where he is mistreated until a prospector discovers him and relates to his situation. Although the two are bonded, Buck yearns to run free with the wild dogs in the wilderness.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Peter Svatek
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Rutger Hauer
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
As: Sam Vigoda
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Ian Holm | Lena Olin | James Gandolfini | Shiek Mahmud-Bey | Andy García
Frank Capra's American Dream (1997)
As: Himself
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Bowser
Stars: Oliver Stone | Ron Howard | Robert Altman | Frank Capra, Jr. | Tom Capra
Mad Dog Time (1996)
As: Vic
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Larry Bishop
Stars: Jeff Goldblum | Ellen Barkin | Richard Dreyfuss | Diane Lane | Gabriel Byrne
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
As: Centipede (voice)
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
Runtime: 79 min.
Directed by: Henry Selick
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite | Joanna Lumley | Simon Callow | Miriam Margolyes | Paul Terry
Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
As: Glenn Holland
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
Runtime: 143 min.
Directed by: Stephen Herek
Stars: William H. Macy | Richard Dreyfuss | Jay Thomas | Glenne Headly | Olympia Dukakis
The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' (1995)
As: Himself
A documentary on the making of one of the greatest films ever made. Filled with trivia, interviews from cast and crew and some never before seen footage.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Laurent Bouzereau
Stars: Steven Spielberg | Richard Dreyfuss | Roy Scheider | Carl Gottlieb | Lorraine Gary
The American President (1995)
As: Senator Bob Rumson
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Stars: Annette Bening | Martin Sheen | Michael Douglas | Michael J. Fox | Anna Deavere Smith
The Last Word (1995)
As: Larry
A journalist with solid mob connections falls for a stripper with a dark past.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Tony Spiridakis
Stars: Joe Pantoliano | Timothy Hutton | Richard Dreyfuss | Chazz Palminteri | Michelle Burke
Silent Fall (1994)
As: Dr. Jake Rainer
An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. Richard Dreyfuss as a controversial therapist, seeks to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Bruce Beresford
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Linda Hamilton | John Lithgow | J.T. Walsh | Ben Faulkner
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein (1994)
As: Himself
Mary Shelley created a monster in 1818, and writers, actors and filmmakers haven't been able to get enough of it ever since. The history of the creature on and off the screen includes clips from Thomas Edison's 1910 filmization to Kenneth Branagh's 1994 treatment, plus interviews with Robert De Niro, Mel Brooks, Roger Corman and others. Hosted by Roger Moore; narrated by Eli Wallach.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Richard Brown
Stars: Robert De Niro | Rick Baker | Kenneth Branagh | Mel Brooks | Francis Ford Coppola
Another Stakeout (1993)
As: Det. Chris Lecce
Chris and Bill are called upon for their excellent surveillance record to stakeout a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading or already hiding. Unlike their earlier _Stakeout_, this time they are accompanied by Gina Garret from the DA's office and her pet rottweiler 'Archie'; their cover, husband and wife with son Bill.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: John Badham
Stars: Dennis Farina | Richard Dreyfuss | Emilio Estevez | Rosie O'Donnell | Miguel Ferrer
Lost in Yonkers (1993)
As: Louie Kurnitz
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Martha Coolidge
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Mercedes Ruehl | Irene Worth | Brad Stoll | Mike Damus
Lincoln (1992)
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Runtime: 240 min.
Directed by: James A. Edgar | Peter W. Kunhardt
Stars: James Earl Jones | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Jason Robards | Glenn Close | Richard Widmark
Prisoner of Honor (1991)
As: Col. Picquart
Set in turn-of-the-century France about an anti-Semitic army officer who challenges the massive government cover-up in the imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus for espionage.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Ken Russell
Stars: Oliver Reed | Richard Dreyfuss | Jeremy Kemp | Peter Firth | Brian Blessed
What About Bob? (1991)
As: Dr. Leo Marvin
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Frank Oz
Stars: Bill Murray | Richard Dreyfuss | Julie Hagerty | Kathryn Erbe | Charlie Korsmo
Once Around (1991)
As: Sam
Renata Bella feels like a failure at life and career. But when Renata attends a seminar on selling real estate, she finally finds True Love. Sam Sharpe, while a top-notch, successful salesman, is much older than Renata. She is swept away by his excessively flamboyant style and irrepressible nature. The very traits she finds romantic, however, lead to repeated conflict with her family, ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Lasse Hallström
Stars: Danny Aiello | Richard Dreyfuss | Laura San Giacomo | Gena Rowlands | Holly Hunter
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
As: Doctor Frankenthal
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother Doris Mann, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who finds her mother still treats her ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Shirley MacLaine | Meryl Streep | Dennis Quaid | Gene Hackman
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
As: The Player
Two minor characters from the play, "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Tom Stoppard
Stars: Gary Oldman | Tim Roth | Richard Dreyfuss | Donald Sumpter | Iain Glen
Always (1989)
As: Pete Sandich
Pete Sandich is a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Pete is introduced to business-like angel who instructs the spectral Pete to pass on his aviation knowledge to his young successor. While doing so, Pete also smoothes the course of romance for his earthly girlfriend who, after several months of grieving, finally falls in love with ...
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Brad Johnson | Richard Dreyfuss | John Goodman | Holly Hunter | Audrey Hepburn
Let It Ride (1989)
As: Jay Trotter
A gambler used to losing is having a very good day.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Joe Pytka
Stars: Jennifer Tilly | Richard Dreyfuss | Teri Garr | David Johansen | Allen Garfield
Moon Over Parador (1988)
As: Jack Noah / President Alphonse Simms
Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the dictatorship of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.. to play the dictator. Jack's acting skills fool the masses but not close friends and employees of the dictator.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Jonathan Winters | Raúl Juliá | Rui Rezende | Sônia Braga
Nuts (1987)
As: Aaron Levinsky
A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney, and is very disruptive during her court hearings.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Martin Ritt
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Eli Wallach | Maureen Stapleton | Barbra Streisand | Karl Malden
Stakeout (1987)
As: Det. Chris Lecce
Two cops are given the 'dirty' job of staking out the home of an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend. Chris and the beautiful girlfriend accidentally meet and fall in love. Just as Chris' confesses, the convict appears, but will she betray him ?
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: John Badham
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Aidan Quinn | Emilio Estevez | Dan Lauria | Madeleine Stowe
Tin Men (1987)
As: Bill 'BB' Babowsky
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Danny DeVito | Barbara Hershey | John Mahoney
Stand by Me (1986)
As: The Writer
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Stars: Kiefer Sutherland | Jerry O'Connell | Corey Feldman | River Phoenix | Wil Wheaton
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
As: David 'Dave' Whiteman
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. Their teenage son is confused about his sexuality and their daughter is suffering from eating disorders. While they are celebrating thanksgiving having plenty of food, street tramp Jerry ...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Nick Nolte | Richard Dreyfuss | Elizabeth Peña | Bette Midler | Little Richard
The Buddy System (1984)
As: Joe
A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the mother. When one of the officer's inventions takes off, he chooses the girl and shatters the friendship with the boy and his mother. Only ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Glenn A. Jordan
Stars: Susan Sarandon | Richard Dreyfuss | Nancy Allen | Wil Wheaton | Jean Stapleton
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
As: Ken Harrison
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: John Badham
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Bob Balaban | Kenneth McMillan | John Cassavetes | Christine Lahti
The Competition (1980)
As: Paul Dietrich
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Joel Oliansky
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Amy Irving | Sam Wanamaker | Lee Remick | Joseph Cali
The Big Fix (1978)
As: Moses Wine
Richard Dreyfuss is Moses Wine, a private detective hired to by his former college girlfriend, Susan Anspach, to investigate a political smear campaign. Moses sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results, in this comedy-thriller.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Jeremy Kagan
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | John Lithgow | F. Murray Abraham | Bonnie Bedelia | Susan Anspach
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
As: Elliot Garfield
Paula McFadden knows: In romance, actors all follow the same stage instruction: Exit. Without warning, her actor boyfriend split today for a movie role and sublet their Manhattan apartment. The new tenant's name: Elliot Garfield. Profession: actor. Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason deliver comedy, zingy repartee and bitter-to-best romance in The Goodbye Girl.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Marsha Mason | Paul Benedict | Barbara Rhoades | Quinn Cummings
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
As: Roy Neary
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Runtime: 138 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Bob Balaban | Teri Garr | François Truffaut | Melinda Dillon
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
As: Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Kirk Douglas | Linda Blair | Theodore Bikel | Helmut Berger
Jaws (1975)
As: Matt Hooper
An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Roy Scheider | Murray Hamilton | Robert Shaw | Lorraine Gary
The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974)
As: Clavius
Jared Martin plays an aspiring film maker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to film his vision with Sondra Locke as his subject. 'Based' on a song by Leonard Cohen.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Michael Barry
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Paul Sand | Jared Martin | Sondra Locke | Gene Barry
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
As: Duddy
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Joseph Wiseman | Henry Ramer | Alan Rosenthal | Susan Friedman
Inserts (1974)
As: Boy Wonder
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: John Byrum
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Richard Dreyfuss | Veronica Cartwright | Jessica Harper | Stephen Davies
American Graffiti (1973)
As: Curt Henderson
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: George Lucas
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Ron Howard | Paul Le Mat | Charles Martin Smith | Cindy Williams
Dillinger (1973)
As: Baby Face Nelson
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934. After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: John Milius
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton | Cloris Leachman | Michelle Phillips | Ben Johnson | Warren Oates
Two for the Money (1972)
As: Morris Gap
Two cops quit the police department to become private detectives, hunt for a killer who has eluded capture for years.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Bernard L. Kowalski
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Walter Brennan | Robert Hooks | Stephen Brooks
Hello Down There (1969)
As: Harold Webster
Given the chance to live in a simulated underwater home for a month, a scientist convinces his family to take advantage of the offer. Once the family agrees to move in, underwater mayhem occurs!
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Ricou Browning | Jack Arnold
Stars: Janet Leigh | Roddy McDowall | Tony Randall | Ken Berry | Charlotte Rae
The Young Runaways (1968)
As: Terry
Three unhappy teenagers run away from home, only to discover living on their own isn't as idyllic as they imagined.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Arthur Dreifuss
Stars: Lloyd Bochner | Lynn Bari | Patty McCormack | Brooke Bundy | Kevin Coughlin
The Graduate (1967)
As: Boarding House Student
Benjamin, a recent college graduate is very worried about his future, he then finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Buck Henry | Anne Bancroft | Murray Hamilton | Katharine Ross | Dustin Hoffman