Roy Scheider

Known for ActingBorn 1932-11-10Died 2008-02-10Orange, New Jersey, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

When It Was a Game

2010 : The Odyssey Continues

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

World's Deadliest Sea Creatures

People's Choice Awards

Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

When It Was a Game 2

Hallmark Hall of Fame

E! True Hollywood Story

The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

Warship

A Decade Under the Influence

Third Watch

The Making of Jaws 2

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

Assignment: Munich

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Jaws

Family Guy

The Shark Is Still Working

Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'

All That Jazz

Sorcerer

The French Connection

Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures

seaQuest DSV

Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

The Rainmaker

Marathon Man

Naked Lunch

Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture

The Howard Stern Show

So Graham Norton

Follies: In Concert

NOVA

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Saturday Night Live

Tiger Town

The Making of 'Jaws'

If I Didn't Care

Evasive Action

The Oscars

The Assassination

2010

Klute

American Experience

Paper Lion