Roy Scheider
Birthday: 1932-11-10 | Place of Birth: Orange, New Jersey, USARoy 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Brody
as Joseph
as Joseph
as Narrator / Self
as Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)
as Sam
as Linus
as Rabbi
as Cardinal Siqueros
as Colonel Gartner
as Frank Castle, Sr.
as Self
as Bull Tyler
as Cardinal Siqueros
as Fred
as Hassan
as Henry Westover
as Mayor Harry S. Porter
as Narrator
as Agent La Nova
as Jacobus Van der Byl
as Narrator
as Self (archive footage)
as Stan Marshall
as Earl
as President Jack Cahill
as Professor Lamont
