Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 10, 1932
Died
Feb 10, 2008
Place of Birth
Orange, New Jersey, USA
Credits
115 titles
Roy Scheider
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Self
Iron Cross
Joseph
The Shark Is Still Working
Narrator / Self
Dark Honeymoon
Sam
Chicago 10
Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)
The Poet
Rabbi
If I Didn't Care
Linus
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
Self
Dracula III: Legacy
Cardinal Siqueros
Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures
Self
The Best of So Graham Norton
Self (archive footage)
The Punisher
Frank Castle, Sr.
Love Thy Neighbor
Fred
Citizen Verdict
Bull Tyler
Dracula II: Ascension
Cardinal Siqueros
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
Red Serpent
Hassan
King of Texas
Henry Westover
Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines
Narrator
Angels Don't Sleep Here
Mayor Harry S. Porter
Texas '46
Colonel Gartner
Time Lapse
Agent La Nova
Warship
Narrator
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Mark Ford Brady
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Self
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
Self
The Making of Jaws 2
Self (archive footage)
The Diamond Hunters
Jacobus Van der Byl
Daybreak
Stan Marshall
Hitler's Lost Sub
Narrator
The Doorway
Professor Lamont
Chain of Command
President Jack Cahill
Secrets of the Dead
Narrator
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
Self
Falling Through
Earl
RKO 281
George Schaefer
Third Watch
Fyodor Chevchenko
The Seventh Scroll
Grant Schiller
Family Guy
Roy Scheider
Silver Wolf
John Rockwell
Jaws 5
Martin Brody (archive footage)
The White Raven
Tom Heath
Better Living
Larry
Money Play$
Johnny Tobin
So Graham Norton
Self
Evasive Action
Enzo Marcelli
World's Deadliest Sea Creatures
Narrator
The Rainmaker
Wilfred Keeley
The Myth of Fingerprints
Hal
The Peacekeeper
President Robert Baker