Born in Brooklyn and raised first in Queens before his family moved to Los Angeles, Dreyfuss began performing as a teenager at community-center drama programs and briefly attended California State University, Northridge while serving as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam era. Early television spots on series such as Peyton Place and Gunsmoke led to his first uncredited film appearance in… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Jaws 1975 RED 2010 Stand by Me 1986 Family Guy 1999 Series ★ 7.8 Bewitched 1964
Series ★ 7.5 Weeds 2005
Warren Schiff ★ 6.9 What About Bob? 1991
Dr. Leo Marvin ★ 7 Mr. Holland's Opus 1995
Glenn Holland ★ 6.9 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 1991
The Player ★ 7 The Goodbye Girl 1977
Elliot Garfield ★ 7.2 Waking Sleeping Beauty 2010
David 'Dave' Whiteman (archive footage) Series ★ 7.5 Bubble Guppies 2011
Captain Acrab ★ 6.6 Postcards from the Edge 1990
Dr. Frankenthal ★ 6.5 The American President 1995
Senator Rumson ★ 6.9 Fail Safe 2000
President ★ 6.5 Stakeout 1987
Det. Chris Lecce Series ★ 6.6 Tin Man 2007
Mystic Man Series ★ 6.7 Gunsmoke 1955
Gearshon Gorofsky ★ 7.2 The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon 1997
Narrator (voice) ★ 7 Whose Life Is It Anyway? 1981
Ken Harrison ★ 6.6 Dillinger 1973
Baby Face Nelson ★ 6.9 Sweetwater 2023
Maurice Podoloff Series ★ 6.9 The Wonderful World of Disney 1997
★ 6.4 Night Falls on Manhattan 1997
Sam Vigoda ★ 6.4 Nuts 1987
Aaron Levinsky Series ★ 6.4 Coma 2012
Professor Hillside ★ 6.3 Tin Men 1987
Bill 'BB' Babowsky ★ 6.3 Let It Ride 1989
Jay Trotter Series ★ 6.4 Madoff 2016
Bernie Madoff ★ 6.3 Lost in Yonkers 1993
Louie Kurnitz ★ 6.3 Cas & Dylan 2013
Dr. Cas Pepper ★ 6.2 Book Club 2018
George ★ 6.2 Always 1989
Pete Sandich Series ★ 6.2 That Girl 1966
Series ★ 6.2 The Big Valley 1965
Lud ★ 6.2 Oliver Twist 1997
Fagin ★ 6.2 The Competition 1980
Paul Dietrich Series ★ 6.1 Room 222 1969
★ 6.1 Astronaut 2019
Angus ★ 6.1 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1974
Duddy Series ★ 6.1 The Mod Squad 1968
★ 6.1 Once Around 1991
Sam Sharpe ★ 6.1 Silver City 2004
Chuck Raven ★ 5.8 The Lightkeepers 2009
Seth ★ 6 Squatters 2014
David Silverman ★ 6.1 Valley of the Dolls 1967
Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited) ★ 5.9 The Big Fix 1978
Moses Wine ★ 6.1 The Sentinel 1977
Man on Sidewalk Talking to Girl in Red Sweater (uncredited) ★ 5.6 Waltzing with Brando 2025
Seymour Kraft ★ 6.1 My Life in Ruins 2009
Irv Gideon ★ 5.9 Who Is Cletis Tout? 2001
Micah Donnelly ★ 6.1 W. 2008
Dick Cheney ★ 5.9 Moon Over Parador 1988
Jack Noah ★ 5.5 Lansky 1999
Meyer Lansky ★ 5.7 Inserts 1975
Boy Wonder ★ 5.9 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys 2001
Scoop the Snowman (voice) Series ★ 5.6 Shots Fired 2017
Arlen Cox ★ 5.2 Victory at Entebbe 1976
Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu ★ 5.9 Into the Deep 2025
Seamus ★ 5.5 The Crew 2000
Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator ★ 6 Leaves of Grass 2009
Pug Rothbaum ★ 5.9 Down and Out in Beverly Hills 1986
Dave Whiteman ★ 5.8 Asher 2018
Avi ★ 5.2 Mad Dog Time 1996
Vic ★ 5.2 Every Last One of Them 2021
Murphy ★ 5.5 Murder at Yellowstone City 2022
Edgar ★ 5.3 Silent Fall 1994
Dr. Jake Rainer ★ 5.8 Very Good Girls 2013
Danny ★ 4.6 Bayou Caviar 2018
Yuri Series ★ 5.3 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 1992
★ 5.5 Zipper 2015
George Hiller ★ 3.8 Crime Story 2021
Ben Myers ★ 5.4 The Last Laugh 2019
Buddy Green ★ 5.5 Daughter of the Wolf 2019
Father ★ 5.4 Another Stakeout 1993
Det. Chris Lecce ★ 4.6 Krippendorf's Tribe 1998
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