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Best Richard Dreyfuss Movies Ranked

Explore the best Richard Dreyfuss movies ranked by Movie Rankings users. The current top-ranked movie here is Jaws. Browse 1 ranked acting credits, then jump into the full filmography and each movie page.

Top Ranked Richard Dreyfuss Movies

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Richard Dreyfuss Acting Filmography (132)

Waltzing with Brando
2025·Seymour Kraft
Into the Deep
2025·Seamus
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025·Self
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
2023·Self
Sweetwater
2023·Maurice Podoloff
Commitment to Life
2023·Self (archive footage)
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
2022·Narrator (voice)
Murder at Yellowstone City
2022·Edgar
Save Christmas
2022·Santa
Every Last One of Them
2021·Murphy
Crime Story
2021·Ben Myers
Audrey
2020·Self - Actor
The Last Laugh
2019·Buddy Green
Polar
2019·Porter
Daughter of the Wolf
2019·Father
Astronaut
2019·Angus
Third Party President: Citizen Rocky
2018·Self
Book Club
2018·George
Bayou Caviar
2018·Yuri
Asher
2018·Avi
Spielberg
2017·Self
Zipper
2015·George Hiller
Squatters
2014·David Silverman
Caserta Palace Dream
2014·Luigi Vanvitelli
Very Good Girls
2013·Danny
Paranoia
2013·Frank Cassidy
Cas & Dylan
2013·Dr. Cas Pepper
Milius
2013·Self
Casting By
2012·Self
The Two Million Year Old Boy
2011·Narrator
Piranha 3D
2010·Matthew Boyd
RED
2010·Alexander Dunning
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010·Self
My Life in Ruins
2009·Irv Gideon
Leaves of Grass
2009·Pug Rothbaum
The Lightkeepers
2009·Seth
The Shark Is Still Working
2009·Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009·David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage)
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009·Self
American Renegade: Confessions of a Radical Humanist
2009·Self
W.
2008·Dick Cheney
America Betrayed
2008·Narrator
AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition
2007·Self
Ocean of Fear
2007·Narrator
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007·Self
Poseidon
2006·Richard Nelson
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006·Self
The Dish on Dolls
2006·Assistant Stage Manager (archive footage)
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005·Self - Actor
Silver City
2004·Chuck Raven
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004·Narrator
Coast to Coast
2004·Barnaby Pierce
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003·Self
Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion
2003·Theodore Roosevelt
The Johnstown Flood
2003·narrator
The John Garfield Story
2003·Self
Manassas: End of Innocence
2002·Narrator
Who Is Cletis Tout?
2001·Micah Donnelly
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
2001·Antonio Bolivar
The Day Reagan Was Shot
2001·Alexander Haig
The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'
2001·Self
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys
2001·Scoop the Snowman (voice)
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome
2001·Self
In Search of Peace
2001·Yitzhak Rabin (voice)
Fail Safe
2000·President
The Crew
2000·Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator
Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me
2000·Self
Lansky
1999·Meyer Lansky
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998·Prof. Krippendorf
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998·Self
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
1998·Narrator
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997·Sam Vigoda
Oliver Twist
1997·Fagin
The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
1997·Narrator (voice)
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997·Self
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997·Self
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
1997·Self
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997·Self
James and the Giant Peach
1996·Centipede (voice)
Mad Dog Time
1996·Vic
The Universal Story
1996·Self
Mr. Holland's Opus
1995·Glenn Holland
The American President
1995·Senator Rumson
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995·Self
The Last Word
1995·Larry
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994·Self
Silent Fall
1994·Dr. Jake Rainer
Another Stakeout
1993·Det. Chris Lecce
Lost in Yonkers
1993·Louie Kurnitz
Lincoln
1992·William Tecumsah Sherman (voice)
What About Bob?
1991·Dr. Leo Marvin
Once Around
1991·Sam Sharpe
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991·The Player
Prisoner of Honor
1991·Col. Picquart
Postcards from the Edge
1990·Dr. Frankenthal
Always
1989·Pete Sandich
Let It Ride
1989·Jay Trotter
Moon Over Parador
1988·Jack Noah
Tin Men
1987·Bill 'BB' Babowsky
Stakeout
1987·Det. Chris Lecce
Citizen Steve
1987·Jedediah
Nuts
1987·Aaron Levinsky
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987·Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987·Self
Stand by Me
1986·The Writer
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986·Dave Whiteman
Night of 100 Stars II
1985·Self
The Buddy System
1984·Joe
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
1981·Ken Harrison
The Competition
1980·Paul Dietrich
The Big Fix
1978·Moses Wine
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977·Roy Neary
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
1977·Self
The Goodbye Girl
1977·Elliot Garfield
The Sentinel
1977·Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited)
The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play
1977
Victory at Entebbe
1976·Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu
Jaws
1975·Hooper
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1975·Boy Wonder
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974·Duddy
The Second Coming of Suzanne
1974·Clavius
New England Our Way
1974·Self
American Graffiti
1973·Curt Henderson
Catch-22
1973·Yossarian
Dillinger
1973·Baby Face Nelson
Me
1973·Greg
The Shadow of a Gunman
1972·Tommy Owen
Two for the Money
1972·Morris Gap
Hello Down There
1969·Harold Webster
The Young Runaways
1968·Terry
The Graduate
1967·Boarding House Resident (uncredited)
Valley of the Dolls
1967·Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited)