Roy Scheider

Roy Scheider

Birthday: 1932-11-10

Place of Birth: Orange, New Jersey, USA

Biography: Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer. Described by AllMovie as "one of the most unique and distinguished of all Hollywood actors", he gained fame for his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s through to the early to mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award. His best-known roles include Chief Martin Brody in Jaws (1975) and its sequel Jaws 2 (1978); NYPD Detective "Cloudy" Russo in The French Connection (1971); NYPD Detective "Buddy" in The Seven-Ups (1973); Doc Levy in Marathon Man (1976); Jackie Scanlon / Juan Dominguez in Sorcerer (1977); choreographer and film director Joe Gideon in All That Jazz (1979); Officer Frank Murphy in Blue Thunder (1983); and Dr. Heywood R. Floyd in the 1984 film 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was also known for playing Captain Nathan Bridger in the science-fiction television series seaQuest DSV (1993–1996)

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Klute
Klute

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psyc...

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The French Connection
The French Connection

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be ...

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Jaws
Jaws

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

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Jaws 2
Jaws 2

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terroriz...

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Romeo Is Bleeding
Romeo Is Bleeding

A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman....

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The Russia House
The Russia House

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for ...

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Marathon Man
Marathon Man

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

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Dracula III: Legacy
Dracula III: Legacy

Dracula leads vampire hunters Father Uffizi and Luke back to Eastern Europe, and a country plagued b...

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Dracula II: Ascension
Dracula II: Ascension

A group of medical students discover the body of the infamous count. Soon, they find themselves in t...

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Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poison...

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2010
2010

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American s...

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The Curse of the Living Corpse
The Curse of the Living Corpse

The wealthy patriarch of the Sinclair family lives in mortal fear of being buried alive due to a rar...

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Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder

Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering fr...

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The Punisher
The Punisher

When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- ...

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The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker

Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful in...

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Still of the Night
Still of the Night

When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigatin...

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Cohen and Tate
Cohen and Tate

A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to the...

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The Seven-Ups
The Seven-Ups

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

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The Peacekeeper
The Peacekeeper

When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the ...

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Chicago 10
Chicago 10

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...

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Daybreak
Daybreak

Dillan Johansen is a disorganized transit authority supervisor suffering from a serious personal tra...

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Evasive Action
Evasive Action

When Redwood Federal Penitentiary closes, there are going to be several hundred prisoners looking fo...

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Last Embrace
Last Embrace

Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the...

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Dark Honeymoon
Dark Honeymoon

Dark Honeymoon follows a man who marries a seductive woman after a brief and passionate relationship...

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Sorcerer
Sorcerer

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

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All That Jazz
All That Jazz

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

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King of Texas
King of Texas

In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle b...

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The Poet
The Poet

At the dawn of World War 2, a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and ar...

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Texas '46
Texas '46

Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW"S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingarett...

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The Outside Man
The Outside Man

A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apar...

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52 Pick-Up
52 Pick-Up

Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His ...

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RKO 281
RKO 281

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, ...

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Citizen Verdict
Citizen Verdict

A sensationalist TV producer has a novel new idea to shake up American reality TV: Citizen Verdict, ...

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Red Serpent
Red Serpent

A powerful drug cartel in Moscow wants to use American businessman Steve Nichols in a smuggling sche...

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The Fourth War
The Fourth War

Cold War adversaries Col. Jack Knowles and his Russian counterpart, Col. Valachev, are stationed on ...

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If I Didn't Care
If I Didn't Care

When a maid is shot dead in the exclusive resort community of the Hamptons, private investigator Lin...

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Money Play$
Money Play$

When a money mule has a fatal heart attack at a Nevada brothel, the contents of the money vest is hi...

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Night Game
Night Game

A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each ga...

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Plato's Run
Plato's Run

Hired to rescue escaped inmates, a Florida man is framed for a Cuban gangster's assassination....

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Puzzle of a Downfall Child
Puzzle of a Downfall Child

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling...

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The Men's Club
The Men's Club

Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work....

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Chain of Command
Chain of Command

Secret Service agents must retrieve the briefcase allowing the President control of America's nuclea...

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Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures
Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures

Elvira hosts this humorous look at movie monsters and facts about the real animals on which they're ...

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Silver Wolf
Silver Wolf

A boy learns to deal with personal loss by making friends with a wild animal in this drama for the e...

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Tiger Town
Tiger Town

Facing his final season with the Detroit Tigers baseball team, veteran outfielder Billy Young sees h...

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The Myth of Fingerprints
The Myth of Fingerprints

When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as o...

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The Shark Is Still Working
The Shark Is Still Working

After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focus...

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Time Lapse
Time Lapse

Clayton Pierce is an agent working under deep cover. Although he is a top agent, he is questioning h...

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The Assassination
The Assassination

Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to...

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Wild Justice
Wild Justice

Colonel Peter Stride is on the trail of a mysterious international criminal known only as Caliph....

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Executive Target
Executive Target

His wife held hostage, a stunt driver is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the Presi...

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The Doorway
The Doorway

Four young college students agree to fix up an abandoned home for rent, only to discover the demons ...

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Iron Cross
Iron Cross

Joseph, a retired New York police officer and Holocaust survivor, travels to Nuremberg to visit his ...

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Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York

Sheila Levine – an innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual – arrives in New York Ci...

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Angels Don't Sleep Here
Angels Don't Sleep Here

A man is accused of murder and manipulated into a web of deceit as his thought-to-be dead twin broth...

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Love Thy Neighbor
Love Thy Neighbor

Two married couples are about to give new meaning to the phrase "Love Thy Neighbor." When these best...

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The Making of 'Jaws'
The Making of 'Jaws'

A documentary on the making of one of the greatest films ever made, filled with trivia, interviews f...

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The Definite Maybe
The Definite Maybe

When 25-year-old New Yorker Eric Traber gets fired from his job and kicked out of his apartment, he ...

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The White Raven
The White Raven

A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pul...

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Better Living
Better Living

A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardshi...

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Paper Lion
Paper Lion

Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illus...

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Listen to Me
Listen to Me

It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, ...

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Loving
Loving

Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Gra...

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Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

The exciting story of the making of William Friedkin's The French Connection (1971), hosted by forme...

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Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'

Making of 'Blue Thunder'...

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Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture

Raymond Eames, a small-time drug dealer, has been sentenced to death for the shooting death of a pol...

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Hitler's Lost Sub
Hitler's Lost Sub

In 1991, professional diver John Chatterton discovered a sunken German U-boat from World War II, lyi...

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A Decade Under the Influence
A Decade Under the Influence

A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today...

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Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent....

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The Rage
The Rage

FBI Special Agent Travis is trying to catch a deranged serial killer and is doing his best despite h...

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Assignment: Munich
Assignment: Munich

Undercover agent, using his bar as a front, battles three killers to find a stolen fortune....

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Bob Fosse: Steam Heat
Bob Fosse: Steam Heat

A documentary profile of director/choreographer Bob Fosse. Includes clips from his films and televis...

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Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'

This retrospective documentary offers a first-rate account of the making of 'Marathon Man'. Hoffman,...

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New England Our Way
New England Our Way

The program is a fascinating look some at the key people involved with JAWS before it was released. ...

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Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines
Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines

A documentary history of the development and deployment of the Cold War's ultimate weapon: the nucle...

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Falling Through
Falling Through

A newly hired security expert on the American Embassy in Paris questions who to trust, as he investi...

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The Making of Jaws 2
The Making of Jaws 2

A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this sequel to the now-clas...

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
To Be Young, Gifted and Black

A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, l...

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Follies: In Concert
Follies: In Concert

A backstage documentary film including footage from the legendary 1985 concert performance of Stephe...

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Stiletto
Stiletto

A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decide...

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World's Deadliest Sea Creatures
World's Deadliest Sea Creatures

Special features real-life incidents of man vs. sea beast, from shark attacks to encounters with cro...

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Smiles
Smiles

A short film by John G. Avildsen....

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The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'

A documentary on the production of The French Connection (1971)....

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A Wind from the South
A Wind from the South

Set in Ireland, the story centers on a day in the life of Shevawn, an innocent, 30-year-old dreamer ...

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Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects

Documentary focused on the creation of movie and television special effects, hosted by Roy Scheider ...

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Jaws: The Revenge
Jaws: The Revenge

After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Isl...

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Jaws 5
Jaws 5

Holidaying in Amity, Harry unwittingly stumbles across a washed-up Jaws. Taking the shark under his ...

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When It Was a Game
When It Was a Game

As seen through the eyes of true baseball enthusiasts, this award-winning documentary tells the stor...

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When It Was a Game 2
When It Was a Game 2

Composed entirely of never-before-seen 8mm and 16mm footage filmed between 1925 and 1961 by baseball...

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2010 : The Odyssey Continues
2010 : The Odyssey Continues

This promotional short for 2010 (1984) shows moviegoers how some of the film's visual effects were c...

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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

The authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premier...

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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cine...

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