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Biography

With a weather-beaten face and acerbic wit, Roy Scheider made a name for himself as a character actor and has turned in award-nominated performances…more

Born

11/10/1932, Orange, New Jersey

Died

2/10/2008

Birth Name

Roy Richard Scheider

Gender

Male

Credits

Star (4)

Role
- SeaQuest DSV
  Captain Nathan Hale Bridger (Season 1-2)
  - S 2: Ep 21 Blindsided
    9/13/95
  - S 2: Ep 22 Splashdown (1)
    5/21/95
  - S 2: Ep 20 The Siamese Dream
    4/30/95
  - S 2: Ep 19 Dagger Redux
    4/2/95
  - S 2: Ep 18 Something in the Air
    3/19/95
  - + 40 More Credits
- The Secret Storm
  Bob Hill
  - S 1: Ep 1 Episode 1
    2/1/54
- Love of Life
  Jonas Falk (#2) (1965-1966)
- Search for Tomorrow
  Dr. Wheeler (1968)
  - S 1: Ep 1 1
    9/3/51
  - S 27: Ep 1 Ep. #9100
    12/26/86
Recurring Role (1)

Role
- Third Watch
  Fyodor Chevchenko
  - S 4: Ep 6 Judgement Day (2)
    10/28/02
  - S 4: Ep 5 Judgement Day (1)
    10/28/02
  - S 4: Ep 4 Crash and Burn
    10/21/02
  - S 3: Ep 21 Two Hundred and Thirty-Three Days
    5/6/02
  - S 3: Ep 15 Superheroes (2)
    3/4/02
  - + 1 More Credits
Guest Star (24)

Role
- Family Guy
  Himself
  - S 7: Ep 15 Three Kings
    5/10/09
  - S 5: Ep 13 Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey
    3/11/07
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  Mark Ford Brady
  - S 6: Ep 21 Endgame
    5/14/07
- E!'s 101
  Interviewee
  - S 2: Ep 9 Most Awesome Moments in Entertainment 40 - 21
    10/20/04
- E! True Hollywood Story
  Himself
  - S 6: Ep 28 Jaws
    6/9/02
- NOVA
  Narrator
  - S 28: Ep 10 Nazi Prison Escape
    2/6/01
  - S 28: Ep 3 Hitler's Lost Sub
    11/14/00
  - S 28: Ep 1 Lincoln's Secret Weapon
    10/24/00
- The Directors
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 3 Steven Spielberg
    6/8/00
- Secrets of the Dead
  narrator
  - S 1: Ep 2 Catastrophe (2)
    5/15/00
  - S 1: Ep 1 Catastrophe (1)
    5/15/00
- So Graham Norton
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 6 Episode 14
    3/12/99
- E! True Hollywood Story
  himself
  - S 3: Ep 1 Bob Fosse
    1/3/99
- American Experience
  Narrator
  - S 8: Ep 9 Spy in the Sky
    2/26/96
- SeaQuest DSV
  Nathan Hale Bridger
  - S 3: Ep 9 Good Soldiers
    12/20/95
  - S 3: Ep 7 Equilibrium
    11/15/95
  - S 3: Ep 1 Brave New World (2)
    9/20/95
- Saturday Night Live
  Himself
  - S 10: Ep 11 Roy Scheider/Billy Ocean
    1/19/85
- The Mike Douglas Show
  Himself
  - S 18: Ep 67 December 7, 1979
    12/7/79
  - S 16: Ep 187 June 16, 1978
    6/16/78
  - S 13: Ep 220 August 1, 1975
    8/1/75
  - S 13: Ep 128 March 12, 1975
    3/12/75
- Film '72
  Himself
  - S 7: Ep 6 Film 78 Episode 6
    4/9/78
- The Academy Awards
  Himself - Presenter
  - S 49: Ep 1 The 49th Annual Academy Awards
    3/28/77
  - S 48: Ep 1 The 48th Annual Academy Awards
    3/29/76
- Dinah!
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 105 February 16, 1976
    2/16/76
  - S 2: Ep 11 September 29, 1975
    9/29/75
- The Merv Griffin Show
  Himself
  - S 11: Ep 114 February 19, 1974
    2/19/74
- Assignment Vienna
  Jake Webster
  - — Assignment—Munich
    4/30/72
- Cannon
  Dan Bowen
  - S 1: Ep 10 No Pockets in a Shroud
    11/23/71
- George Schaefer's Showcase Theatre
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 6 Lamp at Midnight
- N.Y.P.D.
  Jason
  - S 1: Ep 20 Cry Brute
    2/6/68
- Coronet Blue
  The Agent
  - S 1: Ep 7 A Charade for Murder
    7/24/67
- Hallmark Hall Of Fame
  Francesco Barberini
  - S 15: Ep 3 Lamp at Midnight
    4/27/66
- Camera Three
  Face (as Roy R. Scheider)
  - S 10: Ep 5 The Alchemist
    10/4/64

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- Remembering Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss said "He was a wonderful guy," recalling his Jaws co-star as an actor who "does his job and does it as well as he can."
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- Roy Scheider wrote an article for the April 1984 issue of Playboy.
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- Roy Scheider's real-life wife, Brenda King, played the wife of his character on seaQuest DSV.
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- Roy Scheider: I've been fortunate to do what I consider three landmark films. The French Connection spawned a whole era of the relationship between two policemen, based on an enormous amount of truth about working on the job. Jaws was the first big, blockbuster outdoor-adventure film. And certainly All That Jazz is not like any old MGM musical. Each one of these films is unique, and I consider myself fortunate to be associated with them.
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- Roy Scheider: (describing his "Jaws" character, Martin Brody) If you go back and look at the way it's developed and built, that is really a funny character. He's a fumbler with all kinds of inhibitions and fears _ that's the way we built that character.
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- Roy Scheider: You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me?
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