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Roy Scheider

Roy Scheider

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.

  • Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
  • The Shark Is Still Working
  • Iron Cross
  • Chicago 10
  • Dark Honeymoon
  • The Poet
  • If I Didn't Care
  • Dracula III: Legacy
  • The Punisher
  • Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures
  • The Best of So Graham Norton
  • Dracula II: Ascension
  • Citizen Verdict
  • Love Thy Neighbor
  • A Decade Under the Influence
  • King of Texas
  • Texas '46
  • Red Serpent
  • Angels Don't Sleep Here
  • Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines
  • Time Lapse
  • Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
  • Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
  • The Making of Jaws 2
  • Daybreak
  • Chain of Command
  • The Doorway
  • Hitler's Lost Sub
  • Falling Through
  • The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
  • RKO 281
  • Silver Wolf
  • Jaws 5
  • Evasive Action
  • Money Play$
  • The White Raven
  • Better Living
  • World's Deadliest Sea Creatures
  • The Rainmaker
  • The Peacekeeper
  • Plato's Run
  • The Myth of Fingerprints
  • Executive Target
  • The Definite Maybe
  • The Rage
  • The Making of 'Jaws'
  • Wild Justice
  • Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
  • Romeo Is Bleeding
  • SeaQuest DSV
  • When It Was a Game 2
  • Naked Lunch
  • When It Was a Game
  • The Russia House
  • The Fourth War
  • Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
  • Bob Fosse: Steam Heat
  • Cohen and Tate
  • Night Game
  • Listen to Me
  • Jaws: The Revenge
  • 52 Pick-Up
  • The Men's Club
  • Follies: In Concert
  • 2010
  • Tiger Town
  • 2010 : The Odyssey Continues
  • Blue Thunder
  • Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
  • Still of the Night
  • Last Embrace
  • All That Jazz
  • Jaws 2
  • Sorcerer
  • Marathon Man
  • Jaws
  • Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
  • New England Our Way
  • The Seven-Ups
  • The Outside Man
  • The Assassination
  • Assignment: Munich
  • To Be Young, Gifted and Black
  • Klute
  • The French Connection
  • Puzzle of a Downfall Child
  • Loving
  • Stiletto
  • Paper Lion
  • The Curse of the Living Corpse
  • Smiles
  • A Wind from the South

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