Actor
Roy Scheider
November 10, 1932 · Orange, 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).
Notable work
7.7Jaws (1975)
as Brody
7.4Family Guy (1999)
as Roy Scheider and as Roy Scheider / Narrator (voice)
6.4The Punisher (2004)
as Frank Castle, Sr.
7.5The French Connection (1971)
as Buddy Russo
6Jaws 2 (1978)
as Police Chief Martin Brody
7The Rainmaker (1997)
as Wilfred Keeley
7.2Marathon Man (1976)
as Henry 'Doc' Levy
7Naked Lunch (1991)
as Dr. Benway
4.1Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
as Martin Brody (archive footage)
6.72010 (1984)
as Dr. Heywood Floyd
7.5Sorcerer (1977)
as Scanlon / 'Dominguez'
7.5All That Jazz (1979)
as Joe Gideon
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