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Birthdate: October 29, 1947
Richard Dreyfuss
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1960s
0.9571
2
1970s
2.8755
8
1980s
2.5847
11
1990s
2.5733
16
2000s
2.4211
7
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.9739
2.9739
Richard Dreyfuss Movie Rankings
1
3.9366After a teenager and a child are attacked by a Great White shark in a quiet beach community, the new police chief attempts to catch the killer shark before it can strike again. ...more about Jaws
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $7.17
(15 sellers)
2
3.2520When several locals witness a strange alien encounter, they are all mysteriously drawn to a remote location in Wyoming. There they see the government contacting and communicating with a spaceship. ...more about Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor - Science Fiction
DVD from $9.02
(7 sellers)
3
3.1893It's the end of summer and a group of teenagers each have very different paths to take in the morning. They all try to squeeze in one more night of adolescent fun before their impending adulthood. ...more about American Graffiti
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
DVD from $5.61
(13 sellers)
4
3.1401
4 young friends set out on an adventure. Geordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern go looking for the missing body of a local teenager - found by a gang of older boys. A story of boys hangin' out and growin' up. ...more about Stand by Me
DVD from $5.00
(15 sellers)
5
3.0330
The world's most powerful man has met his match! Michael Douglas is the widower President wooing environmental lobbyist Annette Bening in this romantic hit by Rob Reiner. ...more about American President
DVD from $6.99
(13 sellers)
6
2.8820
Glenn Holland (Dreyfuss) is a musician and composer who takes a teaching job to pay the rent while, in his 'spare time', he can strive to achieve his true goal - compose one memorable piece of music to leave his mark on the world. ...more about Mr. Holland's Opus
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
DVD from $7.02
(12 sellers)
7
2.8792
Stuck in the care of his horrible, greedy aunts James dreams of going to New York City. When a mystical, giant peach begins to grow from a barren tree James is sucked inside and with the help of his new insect friends begins his trip to America. ...more about James and the Giant Peach
DVD from $10.98
(11 sellers)
8
2.8461
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. ...more about Down and Out in Beverly Hills
DVD from $5.97
(11 sellers)
10
2.7630
Sean Casey is the newest member of the district attorneys office and he is close to uncovering a police scandal that might involve his father Liam, who works for the NYPD. ...more about Night Falls on Manhattan
DVD from $14.99
(7 sellers)
11
2.7256
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. ...more about Dillinger
DVD from $4.02
(11 sellers)
13
2.6826
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. ...more about Stakeout
DVD from $6.37
(10 sellers)
14
2.6594
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on the skids. ...more about Postcards from the Edge
DVD from $3.92
(11 sellers)
15
2.5996
One step short of larceny, the aluminum siding salesmen in this movie sell their wares, compete with each other, and engage in a lot of great dialog. Tin Men focuses on the rivalry between BB Babowsky and Ernest Tilley. ...more about Tin Men
DVD from $7.02
(11 sellers)
16
2.5983
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day. ...more about Let It Ride
DVD from $11.26
(7 sellers)
17
2.5806
A divorced woman and her daughter come home to find that her boyfriend has left for an out of town job with no warning. This has happened before. ...more about Goodbye Girl
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
- David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
- Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $5.49
(11 sellers)
18
2.5578
Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," a satire that follows grammatically-challenged, "user-friendly" candidate Dicky Pilager, scapegrace scion of Colorado's venerable Senator Jud Pilager, during his gubernatorial campaign. ...more about Silver City
DVD from $3.95
(11 sellers)
19
2.5309
Pete Sandich and buddy Al Yackey are daredevil aerial forest-fire fighters. Pete finds True Love with Dorinda but won't give up the job. When he takes one risk too many, Dorinda faces deep grief and cannot easily put her life back together. ...more about Always
DVD from $6.39
(11 sellers)
20
2.5217
A new patient appears at a psychiatrist's door. He has every possible insecurity in the world. The amazingly successful shrink gives him a copy of his new book, Baby Steps, and goes off on vacation. ...more about What About Bob?
DVD from $6.39
(11 sellers)
21
2.5118
While ringing in the new year aboard the cruise ship Poseidon, a giant wave crashes into the ship and flips it upside down. ...more about Poseidon
DVD from $3.01
(16 sellers)
22
2.3486
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. ...more about Another Stakeout
DVD from $5.97
(10 sellers)
23
2.3230
Four former made men (Reynolds, Cassell, Dreyfuss, and Hedaya), struggling to get by in a rundown Miami hotel, come up with a plot to drive out all of the young tenants that are slowly taking over the beach-front hotel and driving up their rent. ...more about Crew
DVD from $7.02
(11 sellers)
25
2.1168
A university professor is paid to find the last undiscovered tribe of New Guinea. ...more about Krippendorf's Tribe
DVD from $7.02
(9 sellers)
27
1.9094
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. ...more about Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
- Not Available on DVD
28
1.8660
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. ...more about Silent Fall
DVD from $1.96
(9 sellers)
29
1.8297
Actor Awards
- Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards - Best Actor - Male
- Not Available on DVD
31
1.7586
Showing events from the point of view of two minor characters from Hamlet, men who have no control over their destiny, this film examines fate and asks if we can ever really know what's going on? Are answers as important as the questions? Will ...more about Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
DVD from $6.98
(12 sellers)
32
1.7411
A high-class call girl (Streisand) kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. ...more about Nuts
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
DVD from $6.89
(12 sellers)
33
1.7061
Ken Harrison is an artist that makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. ...more about Whose Life Is It Anyway?
- Not Available on DVD
34
1.6556
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. ...more about Once Around
DVD from $4.49
(12 sellers)
35
1.6209
A journalist with solid mob connections falls for a stripper with a dark past. His best friend then drags him to L.A. with the intent of becoming movie men. ...more about Last Word
- Not Available on DVD
36
1.6041
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. ...more about Competition
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Actor
- Not Available on DVD
37
1.5761
Richard Dreyfuss plays a frustrated film maker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to film his vision with Sondra Locke as his subject. Supposedly based on a song by Leonard Cohen (used in the film). ...more about Second Coming of Suzanne
DVD from $1.99
(2 sellers)
38
1.4259
Mob boss Vic returns to business from madhouse. Meanwhile his best and quickest assistant Mickey Holliday is having an affair with Vic's girl Grace Everly and, at the same time, with her sister Rita Everly. ...more about Mad Dog Time
DVD from $6.15
(7 sellers)
39
1.4245
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. ...more about Moon Over Parador
DVD from $4.89
(13 sellers)
41
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. ...more about Buddy System
- Not Available on DVD
43
Follows the lives of three unrelated teenagers as they run away from their respective homes, each for different reasons. ...more about Young Runaways
- Not Available on DVD
44
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. ...more about Oliver Twist
DVD from $10.98
(11 sellers)
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