Richard Dreyfuss Interview 1974 Brian Linehan's City Lights

[@joycegibbs5267]

one of the best actors. Actors used to be so exciting.

[@WendyFedan]

I LOVE his passion!!! Such a captivating interview! Thanks for posting this!

[@nysguy07]

Now we know why he was the narrator for Stand By Me, he knew Reiner since childhood.

[@tatianaartemova3636]

I wish this interview was waaay longer

[@TheLisab56]

The first time I saw Richard was in The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz. I knew, right then, that Richard was a great actor. He has been plagued by bipolar disorder most of his life. He was able to manage it in a way that actually helped him with his craft. If Richard did not become the genius we have seen through the years, (his astounding workmanship, dedication, and respect for acting) I often wondered if he would still be with us. Thank god he was called to become one of the very best.

[@queenslander954]

I hear you Lisa , I watched that movie growing up in Australia and though it was amazing , be it the director Ted Kotcheff also made ‘Wake in Fright’ in Oz as well which turned out brilliantly.. funny thing is I heard Richard say that he hated watching the movie .. might have been his youthful appearance. That let’s face it , no one ever likes.

[@sbrechegno]

​@@queenslander954 Wake in fright is an outstanding piece of cinema

[@barbaras2669]

​@@queenslander954I first noticed Richard on a TV episode of Room 222.

[@ferabra8939]

"You went to Beverly Hills High" "Sure I did...yesterday" "I meant the school" "ohhh,...I see. Yes, I did".

[@kezadrone]

This hosts questions are excellent.

[@shaunigothictv1003]

Dreyfuss is the most passionate person Brian Linehan ever interviewed.

[@jamesrogers8527]

Nice to see him looking so well.

[@fingerprint5511]

It was nearly 50 years ago 😂

[@CasperLCat]

You can see exactly why Spielberg chose this guy for the manically obsessed Dad in Close Encounters.

[@KG-vr3te]

I'm grinning from ear to ear thinking its great to see Mr Hooper survived the sinking of the Orca, and Richard at this point would not want to see Robert Shaw walk in. But I love Richard's talk, the rhythm and enthusiasm is exactly what I loved about him in Close Encounters and Jaws. I wish he did more, when I was 5 to 11 years old, Harrison Ford and Richard Dreyfuss filled me with magic and imagination.

[@natanmandala]

One of a kind. No words. He is the art speaking...SBN RESONATE

[@romansfortunyr3882]

this is a great actor, always followed his work, and you can tell he was passionate about (much like the goodbye girl) an actor playing an actor...amazing!

[@nysguy07]

Love the comment about Albert Brooks, “he’s gaining a very good reputation in the states “. All Brooks did was become a genius.

[@sharpasaneraser]

he's got his JAWS' glasses on

[@xyz8655]

When he first showed up to do JAWS they said he looked exactly how they thought Hooper would look. They even told him not to shave, don't change a thing. So Richard's own look was used as Hooper in Jaws.

[@hunterking4045]

he's need go back to school 😂

[@yuljohnson5502]

"Well this is not a boating accident,and there wasn't no propeller and there was no coral reef. And it wasn't Jack the ripper...it was a Shark"

[@deadheaders86]

Imagine Samuel L. Jackson saying this.

[@sharpasaneraser]

in fact, i think he's got his Matt Hooper costume on...must've been on recess from filming it.

[@GjpgrD]

Since he mentions Diane Maddox working on something "this summer", I suspect this was just before filming on JAWS began (May/June ''74). He's there promoting DUDDY KRAVITZ & he's always said that he accepted the role in JAWS when DUDDY came out & he thought he was terrible in it & would never work again. (He was wrong - he's awesome in it, got great reviews & was even seriously considered for an Oscar nomination for it.)

[@sharpasaneraser]

GjpgrD thanks for the cinema lesson

[@lifemusic1980]

I just watched an interview with him discussing his bipolar disorder and this really shows the manic behavior he described when he was younger.

[@annieanonymous611]

I never knew this and I was going to comment on how intense he is here but this explains it.

[@hectormann3337]

dreyfuss one of the best A actor of the era

[@yuljohnson5502]

Agreed!!! He proved that in Jaws, his performance in that movie was flawless!! The humor and drama he showed in that movie was almost unparallel!!

[@nigeace]

Funnily enough, this was how Dreyfuss looked at the time. Carl Gottlieb and Spielberg said....that he shouldn’t change his look as that’s how they figured Matt Hooper to look like.

[@Anthony-vc2fd]

Even funnily enough, search for the film American graffiti, a film I watched when I was a kid, Richard Dreyfuss looks completely different, it’s funny how his hair colour and appearance looked so vast from two years ago.

[@Anthony-vc2fd]

Funnier enough again, in the actual novel of jaws, (what the film was based off) hooper was a tanned, tall, buff young man. Which didn’t fit the structure of Dreyfuss at all at the time. I recommend the novel, amazing

[@spockboy]

Someone should send this to Richard Dreyfuss.

[@GjpgrD]

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH for this!!!! But where is Part 2 (Thursday)????

[@BrianJgriffin709]

Passion

[@GrandmaKassey]

I've never heard it like that. I get it now. I had to look up cathartic (release of strong emotions). Thank you Ricky.

[@heffphilat]

He's also got the ring on he wore in JAWS, I wonder if he kept the Alsta divers watch he wore as Hooper.

[@stevemarshall3986]

Totally remember Brian from when I was a kid and the city lights logo.

[@TheChadWork2001]

Wow, that host's hair, and the giant microphone around Richard's neck.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Dreyfuss’s enthusiasm and voice reminds me a little of the late Harlan Ellison.

[@TheLisab56]

Ellison is one of my favorite writers. I miss that cranky bastard.

[@Frisenette]

God, that guy is a great interviewer! Is that theme music written for the show or can you get the long clean version somewhere?

[@johnnay6335]

He does hyper converstion like I do hyper conversation. Transcendence.

[@jamesrogers8527]

I now realize Dreyfuss was just playing himself in 'Jaws'.

[@Matthewsmollen4]

This was probably around the time he was filming Jaws.

[@zigzagbigbag]

The irony is Albert Brooke's is actually Albert Einstein brother of Super Dave Osborne who filmed Bizarre TV show in Canada.

[@laustcawz2089]

You don't seem to know the definition of irony.

[@walbermagalhaes9721]

Good actor ..really.

[@victormirabelli5895]

He must of did this interview before he started shooting Jaws in May 1974. He was probably promoting The Apprentiship of Duddy Kravitz which opened in April 1974.

[@justicia5783]

"must HAVE DONE" "have" is the auxiliary verb for the main verb/past participle of "did" , i.e. "done" "of did" is nonsense

[@joeambrose3260]

No shit Sherlock, he says it at 5:33

[@joeambrose3260]

@@justicia5783 Get a life

[@justicia5783]

@@joeambrose3260 "Get a [brain]"

[@jenniferrose5837]

Teen crush! 😍💘

[@sdne1959]

. So.....was the second part of this fascinating interview ever completed........or is it just not included here ?? .

[@charleswinokoor6023]

The whole thing reminds me of SCTV.

[@alukuhito]

The funny intro music, the red background, the large microphone hanging around his neck, ...

[@krisscanlon4051]

Exactly this seems like Short doing both roles

[@dingodundee1212]

This could of been recorded yesterday, apart from the fashion etc..

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Both far too well-spoken to have been filmed yesterday...

[@melissamaylath2289]

Close encounters of 3rd kind. Jaws, What about bob. Are my favorite movies. He's like a down earth kinda guy. He's seems real. & honest. I like that. I only like actors that can relate to real people .Those who are humble & honest. There are very few of them that are like that.

[@alukuhito]

It's funny how his shaggy look has come back full circle. I could never do it. It would just feel too gross for me, but lots of people seem totally comfortable with the messy hair, beard, and sometimes glasses thing.

[@Hanover-ek4jy]

Richard really disliked Robert Shaw in jaws!

[@chiefscheider]

In one of those Making of Jaws things, Carl Gottlieb said that just before a take, Shaw would say something to throw Dreyfuss off, like "Mind your mannerisms..."

[@oo88oo]

What Bobby DeNiro role is he talking about?? Mean Streets???

[@chiefscheider]

Either that or Bang the Drum Slowly

[@Anthony-vc2fd]

Hooper? STARBOARD AINT YOU WATCHING IT

[@marshacreary9771]

Is he related to the famous photographer Alex W. Dreyfoos?

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Linehan during his career conducted “thousands” of interviews? Hundreds maybe, but even that’s a stretch. Notwithstanding that bit of hyperbole, this interview with Dreyfuss was excellent.

[@donsample1002]

Charles Winokoor In a career lasting 25 years, just two interviews a week gets you to thousands.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

@@donsample1002 I stand corrected. But at the time of this particular interview I tend to doubt he had done thousands.

[@natanmandala]

I cried at 11:55...SBN RESONATE

[@marshacreary9771]

1:38-1:56 Rudy who?

[@peterdowney1492]

He's talking about De Niro and states there was one part....... and the interviewer moves on. I wanted to know what it was. Up to that point I think he was doing a great job.

[@chiefscheider]

He may have been talking about Bang the Drum Slowly or Mean Streets, which both came out the year before this interview.

[@zacharyantle7940]

God he was yummy back in the day 🤤

[@gerrydooley951]

known as Rick in high school he was a very entitled little punk and it shows in his work. He was really full of himself. The character in the Goodbye Girl was really him

[@mattkylie6723]

Matty Hooper!!!

[@davemcdonagh7295]

Richard was so disappointed by his performance in Duddy Kravitz (his words not mine) that he rang Steven Spielberg and begged for a role in a movie he had turned down twice, the movie was Jaws.

[@richardsiciliano7117]

Next stop: Martha's Vineyard

[@daveruda]

This is the Dreyfuss that would go from strength to strength over that next few years. Sorry to say he kind of lost his spark later.

[@dfangirl72]

i think it's more quality over quantity.the crew was really good , once around was good ,

[@jamesrogers8527]

He reminds me of John Lennon here, actually.

[@justicia5783]

this dude's beard/facial hair would start graying in a year, the man is barely entering his late 20's The two spots in his chin hair are in the preliminary state just before losing pigment completely. He's also entering the end-game on top as well with that desperate comb-over or should I say, 'comb-forward'

[@dalebaker9109]

There's a photo of him, from June 1975, and he is totally grey, at just 27. He started greying from about 23. An old man by 30. what a great actor he is.

[@justicia5783]

@@dalebaker9109 Good actor but a complete lunatic.

[@joeambrose3260]

Grow up Losers

[@DylanRoth1860]

Actor says actors are great, while dismissing the notion that actors are self serving. Got it.

[@patrickfallon6192]

Richard can talk dang and what’s up with his hair 😬

[@ferabra8939]

He's high on something other than coffe for sure...

[@silverscreenreviews8521]

Fer Abra he’s bi-polar mate, hence his energetic actions and persona

[@ferabra8939]

Coke sure didn't help his condition...and he did a lot in the 70s, according to himself.

[@silverscreenreviews8521]

Fer Abra ah cool man didn’t know that, cheers for the info fella 👍🏻

[@justicia5783]

Dreyfuss has always been a bit of a kook.

[@TheChadWork2001]

Is acting really "work?" It's playing, pretending.

[@robroberts1473]

Of course it's work.