Born in Orange, N.J., on Nov. 10, 1932, Roy Scheider shifted his career ambitions from athletics to acting when he began studying drama during his college years. Following a stint in the Air Force, Scheider debuted on stage with the New York Shakespeare Festival in "Romeo and Juliet."Between 1962 and '67, Scheider appeared in the soap operas "The Edge of Night," "Love of Life" and "The Secret Storm." His breakthrough performance came in 1971 with the thriller Klute, succeeded by his Oscar-nominated turn in The French Connection. He made a big splash in the box-office blockbuster Jaws (1975) and its sequel, Jaws 2 (1978).
Looking for a change of pace from his tough-cop screen persona, Scheider starred in the musical roman à clef All That Jazz (1979), snagging another Academy Award nod. The actor returned to television in 1993 with the sci-fi series "SeaQuest DSV." He died Feb. 10, 2008.
AddJawsWhen an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, a police chief (Roy Scheider), a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) and an oceanographer (Richard Dreyfuss) seek to destroy it. Director Steven Spielberg created the summer blockbuster boom with this white-knuckle... Read More
Add2010: The Year We Make ContactIn this stunning sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, ex-NASA chief Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) helms a U.S.-Soviet mission of scientists (including John Lithgow and Helen Mirren) trying to rendezvous with the abandoned Discovery spacecraft to reactivate the homicidal HAL 9000 computer and learn... Read More
AddAll That JazzBob Fosse's autobiographical film celebrates the raunchy underbelly of show business. Successful director-choreographer Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is at the top of the Broadway heap. But he stands powerless as his world slowly collapses around him; his obsession with work has almost destroyed his... Read More
AddSorcererWilliam Friedkin (The Exorcist) directs this tale based on the French suspense film The Wages of Fear. Four men (Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Amidou and Francisco Rabal), each from a different country, are exiled to a South American town. The four are approached by an American company to transport... Read More
AddJaws 2Ya know when that shark bites with his teeth, babe, scarlet billows start to spread. … Just as the island resort town of Amity begins to rebound from a spate of deadly shark attacks, a pair of missing divers and a boating accident lead police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) to suspect the... Read More
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