Roy Scheider
Birthday: 1932-11-10 | Place of Birth: Orange, New Jersey, USARoy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as police chief Martin C. Brody in Jaws, as choreographer and film director Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo in The French Connection and his role as Captain Nathan Bridger in science fiction television series seaQuest DSV. Scheider's final performance is to be released posthumously in the 2011 thriller Iron Cross. Described by Allmovie as "one of the most unique and distinguished of all Hollywood actors", Scheider was nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award over the course of his career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roy Scheider, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as (archive footage)
as Brody
as Joseph
as Joseph
as Narrator / Self
as Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)
as Sam
as Linus
as Rabbi
as Cardinal Siqueros
as Fred
as Colonel Gartner
as Frank Castle, Sr.
as Himself
as Bull Tyler
as Cardinal Siqueros
as Hassan
as Henry Westover
as Mayor Harry S. Porter
as Narrator
as Agent La Nova
as Jacobus Van der Byl
as Self (archive footage)
as Stan Marshall
as George Schaefer
as President Jack Cahill
