Roy Scheider
Acting
Born 1932-11-10
Died 2008-02-10
Orange, New Jersey, USA
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Roy Richard Scheider (/ˈʃaɪdər/; November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, one Golden Globe, and one BAFTA. Scheider's best-known roles include Frank Ligourin in Klute (1971), Police Chief Martin Brody in Jaws (1975) and its 1978 sequel, "Cloudy" Russo in The French Connection (1971), "Buddy" in The Seven-Ups (1973), Doc Levy in Marathon Man (1976), Scanlon / Dominguez in Sorcerer (1977), Joe Gideon in All That Jazz (1979), Frank Murphy in Blue Thunder (1983), and Dr. Heywood Floyd in the 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984). Subsequent credits included Naked Lunch (1991), Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), The Myth of Fingerprints (1997), The Rainmaker (1997), and The Punisher (2004). He portrayed Captain Nathan Bridger on NBC's seaQuest DSV from 1993–1996.
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Acting
55 credits
Family Guy
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Saturday Night Live
NOVA
Third Watch
American Experience
Jaws
The Punisher
Film '72
The Oscars
seaQuest DSV
People's Choice Awards
Secrets of the Dead
The Rainmaker
Jaws 2
2010
So Graham Norton
Jaws: The Revenge
Sorcerer
The French Connection
Blue Thunder
Naked Lunch
Marathon Man
All That Jazz
The Howard Stern Show
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Klute
Romeo Is Bleeding
52 Pick-Up
The Seven-Ups
The Russia House
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Best of So Graham Norton
Still of the Night
Dracula II: Ascension
Last Embrace
The Seventh Scroll
A Decade Under the Influence
Assignment: Munich
The Shark Is Still Working
The Assassination
RKO 281
Money Play$
Dracula III: Legacy
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Night Game
Listen to Me
The Doorway
Dark Honeymoon
The Poet
The Outside Man
A Wind from the South
Executive Target
Chicago 10
The Fourth War
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