Born in Orange, N.J., on Nov. 10, 1932, Roy Scheider shifted his career ambitions from athletics to acting when he began studying drama during his college years. Following a stint in the Air Force, Scheider debuted on stage with the New York Shakespeare Festival in "Romeo and Juliet."Between 1962 and '67, Scheider appeared in the soap operas "The Edge of Night," "Love of Life" and "The Secret Storm." His breakthrough performance came in 1971 with the thriller Klute, succeeded by his Oscar-nominated turn in The French Connection. He made a big splash in the box-office blockbuster Jaws (1975) and its sequel, Jaws 2 (1978).
Looking for a change of pace from his tough-cop screen persona, Scheider starred in the musical roman à clef All That Jazz (1979), snagging another Academy Award nod. The actor returned to television in 1993 with the sci-fi series "SeaQuest DSV." He died Feb. 10, 2008.
JawsDirector Steven Spielberg virtually invented the summer blockbuster with this white-knuckle adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel about an insatiable great white shark that terrorizes the townspeople of fictional Amity Island. John Williams's legendary score punctuates the tension as the police chief... Read More
2010: The Year We Make ContactIn this stunning sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, ex-NASA chief Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) helms a U.S.-Soviet mission of scientists (including John Lithgow and Helen Mirren) trying to rendezvous with the abandoned Discovery spacecraft to reactivate the homicidal HAL 9000 computer and learn... Read More
All That JazzBob Fosse's Oscar-winning autobiographical film celebrates the raunchy underbelly of show business. Successful director-choreographer Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is at the top of the Broadway heap. But he stands powerless as his world slowly collapses around him. His obsession with work has almost... Read More
SorcererWilliam Friedkin directs this tale based on the French suspense film The Wages of Fear. Four men (Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Amidou and Francisco Rabal), each from a different country, are exiled to a South American town, where they're approached by an American company with a tempting proposition:... Read More
Jaws 2Just as Amity Island begins to rebound from a spate of deadly shark attacks, a pair of missing divers and a boating accident lead police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) to suspect the worst, but his warnings go ignored by the mayor (Murray Hamilton). Sure enough, another great white lurks in the... Read More
Dark Honeymoon (2008) | NR | |
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Chicago 10 (2007) | R | |
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Dracula III: Legacy (2005) | R | |
Citizen Verdict (2005) | R | |
The Punisher (2004) | R | |
Dracula II: Ascension (2003) | R | |
A Decade Under the Influence (2003) | R | |
No Money Down (2003) | NR | |
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King of Texas (2002) | NR | |
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Red Serpent (2002) | R | |
Regulus (2002) | NR | |
Love Thy Neighbor (2002) | R | |
Diamond Hunters (2001) | R | |
Time Lapse (2000) | R | |
Chain of Command (2000) | R | |
The Doorway (2000) | R | |
RKO 281 (1999) | R | |
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The White Raven (1998) | R | |
Evasive Action (1998) | R | |
The Rage (1997) | R | |
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The Myth of Fingerprints (1997) | R | |
Executive Target (1997) | R | |
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Plato's Run (1996) | R | |
Romeo Is Bleeding (1994) | R | |
SeaQuest DSV (1993) | NR | |
R | ||
The Russia House (1990) | R | |
Listen to Me (1989) | PG-13 | |
The Men's Club (1986) | R | |
52 Pick Up (1986) | R | |
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Blue Thunder (1983) | R | |
Tiger Town (1983) | NR | |
Last Embrace (1979) | R | |
All That Jazz (1979) | R | |
Jaws 2 (1978) | PG | |
Sorcerer (1977) | PG | |
Marathon Man (1976) | R | |
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The Seven-Ups (1973) | PG | |
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Klute (1971) | R | |
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) | R | |
Paper Lion (1968) | NR | |
Del Tenney Double Feature (1963) | NR | |
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