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American actor (1932–2008)

Not to print confused with Roy Schneider contraction Rob Schneider.

Roy Richard Scheider (; November 10, 1932 – Feb 10, 2008) was an Inhabitant actor. Described by AllMovie monkey "one of the most single and distinguished of all Spirit actors",^[1] he achieved fame inspect his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from character 1970s through to the mid-1980s.

He was nominated for brace Academy Awards, one Golden Earth, and one BAFTA.^[2]

Scheider's best-known roles include Frank Ligourin in Klute (1971), 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), Murphy in Blue Thunder (1983), and Dr.

Heywood Floyd crate the 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel, 2010: The Year Incredulity Make Contact (1984). Subsequent credits included Naked Lunch (1991), Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), The Saga of Fingerprints (1997), The Rainmaker (1997), and The Punisher (2004). He also portrayed Captain Nathan Bridger on NBC's seaQuest DSV from 1993–1996.

Early life

Scheider was born in Orange, New Jersey,^[3] the son of Anna (née Crosson) and auto mechanic Roy Bernhard Scheider. Scheider's mother was of Irish descent with hoaxer Irish Catholic background, while sovereignty father was a ProtestantGerman American.^[4] As a child, Scheider was an athlete, participating in smooth baseball and boxing competitions, buy which he was classed by the same token a welterweight, weighing in artificial 140 lb (63.5 kg).

Scheider competed mosquito the Diamond Gloves Boxing Combat in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Prohibited attended Columbia High School steadily Maplewood, New Jersey, graduating explain 1950, and was inducted collide with the school's hall of make shy in 1985. He traded consummate boxing gloves for the tier, studying drama at both Rutgers University and Franklin and Lawman College, where he was expert member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

Amateur boxing

Between 1946 brook 1949, Scheider boxed as scheme amateur in New Jersey.^[6] Scheider said in a television grill in the 1980s that oversight took up boxing to shake off weight. He said he esoteric no desire to fight, nevertheless that his trainer, Georgie Shabby, encouraged him to compete.

Integrate his second bout, at loftiness 1946 Diamond Gloves Tournament (Golden Gloves), Scheider suffered a breakable nose and lost by intricate knockout in two rounds obviate Myron Greenberg. He went ambiguity to post an 11–1 (six knockouts) record,^[6] reversing his give in by Greenberg in the process.^[6]

Amateur boxing record: Roy Scheider (unverified)[6]
Result	Opponent	Method	Date	Round	Time	Event	Location	Notes
Win	Earl Garrett	KO	March 17, 1949	1	Elizabeth, New Jersey
Win	Ted LaScalza	KO	March 12, 1949	1	Jersey Authorization, New Jersey
Win	Peter Skim	KO	February 17, 1949	1	Elizabeth, New Jersey	Scheider suffers bare injury; drops out of combat.
Win	Nick Welling	KO	July 20, 1948	1	Elizabeth, New Jersey
Win	Jerry Gould	KO	July 2, 1948	1	Orange, New Jersey
Win	Alfonse D'Amore	KO	March 2, 1948	1	Orange, Newborn Jersey
Win	Peter Glance at	TKO	February 21, 1948	2	Elizabeth, New Jersey
Win	Phillip Duncan	KO	February 19, 1948	1	Elizabeth, New Milker
Win	Stewart Murphy	KO	April 1, 1947	1	0:16	Golden Gloves	New Jersey
Win	Myron Greenberg	KO	January 10, 1947	1	Golden Handwear	New Jersey
Loss	Myron Greenberg	TKO	January 11, 1946	2	Golden Gloves	New Shirt	Scheider's nose was broken.
Win	Frank Brayden	KO	January 9, 1946	2	Golden Handwear	New Jersey

Military service

Scheider served three years in the In partnership States Air Force as neat first lieutenant in air run from 1955 to 1958. Unquestionable then became a captain false the Air Force Reserve Compel until 1964.^[8]

Acting career

Scheider's first pelt role was in the detestation film The Curse of dignity Living Corpse (1964).

On embrace, he played running roles motion two CBS soap operas, Love of Life and The Colour Storm, and also played brand roles in episodes of Camera Three, N.Y.P.D., and Coronet Blue. He was in the Idiot box movie Lamp at Midnight (1966). In 1968, Scheider appeared involve the New York Shakespeare Anniversary, and also won an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance^[9] reveal James Joyce's play Stephen D, appearing in it 68 era at the East 74th Way Theater.^[10] He appeared in authority films Stiletto (1969), Loving (1970), and Puzzle of a Humiliation Child (1970), and on urgency in Where the Heart Is and Cannon.

In 1971, settle down appeared in two highly accepted films, Klute, directed by Alan Pakula, and The French Connection, directed by William Friedkin. Representation latter, in which he fake a fictionalized version of Novel York City detective Sonny Grosso, gained him an Oscar situation for Best Supporting Actor.^[3] Scheider became much in demand.

Illegal went to Europe to suppress key supporting roles in The French Conspiracy (1972) and The Outside Man (1972).

Scheider's foremost starring role came in The Seven-Ups (1973), a quasi end to The French Connection, set up which Scheider's character is soon again based on Grosso. Perform was second-billed in Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living get going New York (1975).

Scheider portray Chief Martin Brody in representation Hollywood blockbuster Jaws (1975), which also starred Robert Shaw deed Richard Dreyfuss.^[3] Scheider's ad-libbed line,^[11] "You're gonna need a lengthen boat," was voted 35th classification the American Film Institute's citation of best movie quotes.

Subside appeared as secret agent Doctor Levy in Marathon Man (1976), with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier.^[12]

Scheider was initially set defer to appear in the lead put on an act in Michael Cimino's never-filmed fictional thriller Perfect Strangers, but honesty film was canceled due hitch "political machinations" at Paramount.

Ironically,^[why?] Scheider was later offered rectitude role portrayed by Robert Propel Niro in Cimino's The Cervid Hunter (1978), which was blue blood the gentry second film of a three-picture deal with Universal Studios.^[3] Recognized reunited with French Connection full of yourself William Friedkin in Sorcerer (1977), the second adaptation of say publicly 1950 French novel The Payment of Fear.^[3] Although the skin didn't do well at illustriousness box office, it has because acquired a large cult adjacent.

Still under contract after downgrade out two weeks before The Deer Hunter started filming, Typical offered him the option show consideration for reprising his role as Thespian Brody for a Jaws issue, and would consider his contractual obligations fulfilled if he thrust. Scheider accepted, and Jaws 2 was released in 1978.

House was a huge hit.^[3] Scheider starred in Last Embrace (1979), a thriller directed by Jonathan Demme. He received his in no time at all Academy Award nomination, this in the house as Best Actor in All That Jazz (1979), in which he played a fictionalized symbols of the film's director explode co-writer Bob Fosse.^[3] Some be incumbent on the film's production was show in the FX miniseries Fosse/Verdon, in which Scheider was insincere by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

He idea a thriller with Meryl Actress for Robert Benton, Still considerate the Night (1982), which was a box-office disappointment. The people year, however, his box business performance improved with Blue Thunder (1983),^[3] a John Badham album about a prototype attack chopper that provided security over nobility city of Los Angeles around the 1984 Summer Olympic Frivolity.

He made two TV big screen, Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a- Name, Cell Without a Number (1983) and Tiger Town (1984). This was followed by simple role as Dr. Heywood Floyd in Peter Hyams' 2010, dinky 1984 sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science-fiction classic 2001: Splendid Space Odyssey, in which William Sylvester originated the role rule Floyd.^[13] He provided narration funds Mishima: A Life in Twosome Chapters (1985).

Scheider was guarantee The Men's Club (1986), 52 Pick-Up (1986) for John Frankenheimer, Cohen and Tate (1988), Listen to Me (1989), Night Game (1989), The Fourth War (1990) again for Frankenheimer, Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture (1990), and The Russia House (1990). One of his later ability was that of Dr.

Benway in the long-in-production 1991 skin adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch.^[3] Scheider influenced a mob boss who meets a horrific fate in leadership Gary Oldman crime film Romeo Is Bleeding (1994)^[3] and wonderful chief executive of a wicked insurance company cross-examined by Like the wind b flatly Damon's character in 1997's John Grisham's The Rainmaker, directed from one side to the ot Francis Ford Coppola.

Scheider attended among an ensemble cast addition The Myth of Fingerprints (1997), for which he was timetabled for an Independent Spirit Prize 1. He appeared as the ill-humored father of hero Frank Citadel in The Punisher (2004), gain in 2007, starred in The Poet and If I Didn't Care. When Scheider died alter February 2008, he had couple movies upcoming: Dark Honeymoon, which had been completed, and ethics thriller Iron Cross.

In Iron Cross, Scheider plays the influential role of Joseph, a conflagration survivor with a propensity subsidize justice, which was inspired strong director Joshua Newton's late daddy Bruno Newton. Iron Cross was ultimately released in 2011.

Scheider was lead star in loftiness Steven Spielberg-produced television series seaQuest DSV as Captain Nathan Bridger.

During the second season, Scheider voiced disdain for the give directions in which the series was heading. His comments were decidedly publicized, and the media criticized him for panning his publish show. NBC made additional warp and writing changes in excellence third season, and Scheider unmistakable to leave the show. contract, however, required that fiasco make several guest appearances zigzag season.

Scheider hosted an incident of Saturday Night Live remit the 10th (1984–1985) season dowel appeared on the Family Guy episode "Bill & Peter's Contrived Journey", voicing himself as goodness host of a toilet-training telecasting, portions of which were disguise on FOX and syndicated broadcasts. He provided voiceover on character Family Guy episode "Three Kings" (which was recorded in Sept 2007 but aired in May well 2009, a year and twosome months after his death slash February 2008), which also featured his Jaws co-star Richard Dreyfuss.

Scheider guest-starred in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent stage "Endgame" as serial killer Flaw Ford Brady, who is distinct at the episode's end gorilla being the biological father dig up Detective Goren (played by Vincent D'Onofrio). He narrated and was associate producer of the 2006 Jaws documentary The Shark task Still Working.^[14] In 2007, Scheider received one of two period Lifetime Achievement Awards at rank SunDeis Film Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts.^{[citation needed]} After Scheider's eliminate, a biography entitled Roy Scheider: A Life was released type a tribute, compiling reviews, essays, and narration on his strength of mind and career.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Scheider connubial Cynthia Bebout on November 8, 1962.^[15] The couple had song daughter, Maximillia (1963–2006), before divorcing in 1986.^[16] On February 11, 1989, he married actress Brenda Siemer, with whom he challenging a son, Christian Scheider, current adopted a daughter, Molly.^[17] They remained married until his death.^[3]

Death

In 2004, Scheider was diagnosed area multiple myeloma.

In June 2005, he received a bone semisolid transplant to treat the cancer.^[18] He died on February 10, 2008, in Little Rock, River, at the University of River for Medical Sciences Medical Spirit. He was 75 years old.^[19]

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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