Roy Scheider
Gender: Male
Born: 10th November 1932
Died: 10th February 2008
Nationality: United States of America, Germany
TV programs: SeaQuest DSV, Love of Life, The Secret Storm
Movies: 2010: The Year We Make Contact, All That Jazz, Blue Thunder, Jaws, Jaws 2, Klute, RKO 281, Sorcerer, The French Connection, The Myth of Fingerprints, 52 Pick-Up, Last Embrace, Cohen and Tate, The Punisher, Still of the Night, Marathon Man, The Seven-Ups, Romeo Is Bleeding, Night Game, Listen to Me, Chain of Command, Better Living, Dark Honeymoon, Tiger Town, If I Didn't Care, The Good War, Diamond Hunters, Time Lapse, The Russia House, Dracula III Legacy, Iron Cross, Dracula II Ascension, King of Texas, Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, The Poet, Terror in the Aisles, The Fourth War, The Curse of the Living Corpse, The Outside Man, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, The Rage, Executive Target, The Peacekeeper, Evasive Action, Naked Lunch, Plato's Run, Citizen Verdict, Love Thy Neighbor, The Doorway, Red Serpent, No Money Down, Paper Lion , Angels Don't Sleep Here, The Men's Club, The Men's Club, Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, The White Raven, The Rainmaker, Stiletto
Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor. He was best known for his leading role as police chief Martin C. Brody in the first two Jaws movies, 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 was posthumously released 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.
Scheider was born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Anna Scheider (née Crosson) and auto mechanic Roy Bernhard Scheider. Scheider's mother was of Irish Catholic background and his father was German American and Protestant. As a child, Scheider was an athlete, participating in organized baseball and boxing competitions, for which he was classed as a welterweight, weighing in at 140 lbs. He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 1985. He
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