"Jaws" Actor Roy Scheider dies.
 

He drove in the Pontiac Motor division's test drive/training flims too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4QtYizPKM


LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died. He was 75.


Roy Scheider speaks at a gala in 2004. Scheider died Sunday at an Arkansas hospital.

more photos » Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release a cause of death.

However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.

Scheider received two Oscar nominations, for best-supporting actor in 1971's "The French Connection" in which he played the police partner of Oscar winner Gene Hackman, and for best-actor for 1979's "All That Jazz," the autobiographical Bob Fosse film.

However, he was best known for his role in Steven Spielberg's1975 film, "Jaws," the enduring classic about a killer shark terrorizing beachgoers and well as millions of moviegoers.

Widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood blockbuster, it was also the first movie to earn $100 million at the box office. Scheider starred with Richard Dreyfuss, who played an oceanographer.

In 2005, one of Scheider's most famous lines in the movie -- "You're gonna need a bigger boat" -- was voted No. 35 on the American Film Institute's list of best quotes from U.S. movies.

That year, some 30 years after "Jaws" premiered, hundreds of movie buffs flocked to Martha's Vineyard, off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, to celebrate the great white shark.


The island's JawsFest '05 also brought back some of the cast and crew, including screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel that inspired Spielberg's classic. Spielberg, Scheider and Dreyfuss were absent.

Scheider was also politically active. He participated in rallies protesting U.S. military action in Iraq, including a massive New York demonstration in March 2003 that police said drew 125,000 chanting activists. E-mail to a friend

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.


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I missed this one ...

I am a die hard Scheider fan. Too bad.

We all got to sign off, when it's time to quit.

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... and a moment of silence.

He was good in All That Jazz as well potraying Bob Fosse's life.

Ugh Multiple Myeloma. I had a friend with that. A cold could kill you.

I just watched 52 Pickup again recently. RIP, Roy.

Thanks Roy!
 

In addition to a number of well known rolls: one movie that he was particularly great in was "Sorcerer" directed by Bill Friedkin 1977. If you can find it its well worth the trouble to get it and watch it! Definately a man's movie, the later parts with the journey through the jungle transporting the nitroglycerin weeping dynamite are spellbinding and spectacular.

Here's a link:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076740/


Thanks for everything Roy!

The French Connection.
 

He was great in a lot of seventies moves, including one of my favorite all time films, The French Connection.

You have to see the Gene Hackman car chase.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2HBSuM_fLQ

The Seven-Ups is another classic seventies hard core cop movie that Roy Scheider stared in. Total Grindhouse kind of picture.

Check out the car chase on this one, Bill Hickman, the stunt driver from Bullitt, drove one of the cars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4QtYizPKM

Roy Scheider
 

And let us not forget his turn as superspy Scylla, in "Marathon Man" with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. There's a secret in the plot about his identity, which I won't give away in case you haven't seen the movie.

(As I recall, the novel, not the movie, had yet another howling surprise part way through, too.)

I seem to remember that he was in line to star in a spy TV series called "Assignment: Vienna" (originally "Assignment: Munich") and dropped out, to be replaced with Robert Conrad. If he hadn't, and the series had run for a while, he might not have been free to do "Jaws." And of course he was the hero in "Blue Thunder," opposite Malcolm McDowell.
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I used to love Scheider as "Captain Nathan Bridger" on SeaQuest DSV.

Granted, the show wasn't exactly a top-notch sci-fi accomplishment, but I still think that he did a wonderful job as the captain of that boat. Farewell, Roy Scheider, you will be missed.

No one remembers that show, but it was pretty decent!

Wow this really sucks he made some really good movies!