Most Recent Role: Mark Ford Brady on Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Alias Name(s): Roy R. Sheider
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Orange, New Jersey
Birthday: 11-10-1932
Birth Name: Roy Richard Scheider
Date of Death: 2-10-2008
Alias Name(s): Roy R. Sheider
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Orange, New Jersey
Birthday: 11-10-1932
Birth Name: Roy Richard Scheider
Date of Death: 2-10-2008
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 on film and TV.
His breakout role was in 1971's The French Connection , where he played Gene Hackman's partner and got an Oscar nomination. The 1970s also saw Scheider's biggest hit and perhaps the film he is most recognized for -...
Most Recent Appearance
Endgame
Monday 14 May 2007 on USA
Goren and Eames find a scrapbook belonging to a serial killer on death row that suggests he may have had more victims than previously known.
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 graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.
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Roy Scheider has been nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for The French Connection (1971) and Best Actor for (1979).
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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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Roy Scheider: The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.
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Other Appearances
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Love of Life
Jonas Falk (#2) (1965-1966) |
seaQuest DSV
Captain Nathan Hale Bridger (Season 1-2) |
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Search for Tomorrow
Dr. Wheeler (1968) |
The Secret Storm
Bob Hill |
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Third Watch
Fyodor Chevchenko |
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Assignment Vienna
Assignment—Munich Jake Webster |
Cannon
No Pockets in a Shroud Dan Bowen |
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Coronet Blue
A Charade for Murder The Agent |
E!'s 101
Most Awesome Moments in Entertainment 40 - 21 Interviewee |
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E! True Hollywood Story
Bob Fosse himself |
E! True Hollywood Story
Jaws Himself |
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"Talented"Perfect Show me the way to go home I'm tired and I want to go to bed I had a little drink about an hour ago And it got right to my head Continue » Posted Feb 12, 2008 6:01 pm PST |
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"One of the all-time greats"Perfect roy plays great charcters as chief broady in jaws and captain bridger in seaquest dsv. Continue » Posted Jan 25, 2008 1:11 am PST |
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