Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor best known for starring in a number of films, television shows, and theater roles, including the pivotal role of Matt Hooper in the film Jaws.
Filmography
- Valley of the Dolls - Assistant State Manager
- The Graduate - Boarding House Resident
- The Young Runaways - Terry
- Hello Down There - Harold Webster
- American Graffiti - Curt Handerson
- Dillinger - Baby Face Nelson
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Duddy
- The Second Coming of Suzanne - Clavius
- Inserts - The Boy Wonder
- Jaws - Matt Hooper
- Victory at Entebble - Colonel Youatan 'Yoni' Netanyahu
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Roy Nearly
- The Goodbye Girl - Elliott Garfield
- The Big Fix - Moses Wine
- The Competition - Paul Dietrich
- Whose Life Is It Anyway? - Ken Harrison
- The Buddy System - Joe
- Down and Out in Beverly Hills - David 'Dave' Whiteman
- Stand by Me - Narrator/Gordie LaChance (adult)
- Tin Men - Bill 'BB' Babowsky
- Stakeout - Det. Chris Lecce
- Nuts - Aaron Leinsky
- Moon over Parador - Jacok Noah/President Alphonse Simms
- Let It Ride - Jay Trotter
- Always - Pete Sandich
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - The Player
- Postcards from the Edge - Doctor Frankenthal
- Once Around - Sam Sharpe
- What About Bob? - Dr. Leo Marvin
- Lost in Yonkers - Louie Kurnitz
- Another Stakeout - Detective Chris Lecce
- Silent Fall - Dr. Jake Rainer
- The Last Word - Larry
- The American President - Senator Bob Rumson
- Mr. Holland's Opus - Glenn Holland
- James and the Giant Peach - Centipede (voice)
- Mad Dog Time - Vic
- Night Falls on Manhattan - Sam Vigoda
- Krippendorf's Trible - Prof. James Krippendorf
- The Crew - Bobby Bartellemeo/Narrator
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories - Antonio Bolivar
- Who Is Cletis Tout? - Micah Donnelly
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys - Scoop T. Snowman
- Silver City - Chuck Raven
- Poseidon - Richard Nelson
- Signs of the Time - Narrator
- W. - Dick Cheney
- America Betrayed - Narrator
- My Life in Ruins - Irv
- Leaves of Grass - Pug Rothbaum
- The Lightkeepers - Seth
- Piranha 3D - Matt Hooper (Credited as "Matthew Boyd")
- Red - Alexander Dunning
- Paranoia - Francis Cassidy
- Cas and Dylan - Dr. Cas Pepper
- Very Good Girls - Danny
- Squatters - David
- Zipper - George Hiller
- Book Club - George
- The Last Laugh - Buddy Green