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Roy Scheider
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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.
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Jaws
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Marathon Man
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Klute
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All That Jazz
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The Rainmaker
As Wilfred Keeley
Jaws 2
As Police Chief Martin Brody
Sorcerer
As Scanlon / 'Dominguez'
The French Connection
As Buddy Russo
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The Price of Devotion
From the riverbank to the desert, a journey through American cinema's darkest portraits of faith, charisma, and the corruption that follows.
8 films
When Nature Turns
Exploring the deep to the desert, and the skies to the suburbs, animals have long been cinema's most primal villains. This chain traces the evolution of the cre...
8 films
When Money Buys Trouble
From Brooklyn to the world, a chain of films where transactions turn tender, then treacherous.
8 films
The Path to La La Land & Its Legacy
A decade on from its 2016 debut, La La Land remains a landmark achievement in modern cinema: a dazzling, bittersweet love letter to big dreams and hard choices....
7 films
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Dark Honeymoon
2008 · Sam
Silver Wolf
1999 · John Rockwell
The Rainmaker
1997 · Wilfred Keeley
The Russia House
1990 · Russell
Blue Thunder
1983 · Murphy
Still of the Night
1982 · Doctor Sam Rice
All That Jazz
1979 · Joe Gideon
Last Embrace
1979 · Harry Hannan
Jaws 2
1978 · Police Chief Martin Brody
Sorcerer
1977 · Scanlon / 'Dominguez'
Marathon Man
1976 · Henry 'Doc' Levy
Jaws
1975 · Brody
The French Connection
1971 · Buddy Russo
Klute
1971 · Frank Ligourin