Roy Scheider profile
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Roy Scheider

10th November 1932 Orange, New Jersey, USA Acting

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.

92 Movies 19 TV Shows 116 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Chicago 10 poster
Chicago 10 29th February 2008 as Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)
Daybreak poster
Daybreak 19th December 2000 as Stan Marshall
RKO 281 poster
RKO 281 20th November 1999 as George Schaefer
Jaws 5 poster
Jaws 5 1st January 1999 as Martin Brody (archive footage)
2010 poster
2010 6th December 1984 as Dr. Heywood Floyd
Jaws 2 poster
Jaws 2 16th June 1978 as Police Chief Martin Brody
Sorcerer poster
Sorcerer 24th June 1977 as Scanlon / 'Dominguez'
Jaws poster
Jaws 20th June 1975 as Brody
Klute poster
Klute 23rd June 1971 as Frank Ligourin
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Warship 26th November 2001 as Narrator
Family Guy poster
Family Guy 31st January 1999 as Roy Scheider / Narrator (voice)
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NOVA 3rd March 1974 as Narrator