Roy Scheider

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Roy Scheider

Born 1932-11-10 Orange, New Jersey, USA 94 films

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 Conne…

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Filmography

94 films
All That Jazz poster

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in mu…

All That Jazz

★ 7.5 1979

Last Embrace poster

Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in th…

Last Embrace

★ 5.4 1979

Jaws 2 poster

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrori…

Jaws 2

★ 6.0 1978

Sorcerer poster

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South Am…

Sorcerer

★ 7.5 1977

Marathon Man poster

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his b…

Marathon Man

★ 7.2 1976

Jaws poster

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the…

Jaws

★ 7.7 1975

The Seven-Ups poster

A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his p…

The Seven-Ups

★ 6.4 1973