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Re: Actor Roy Scheider Dies at 75
Actor Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his leading role as the water-phobic police chief in the smash blockbuster Jaws, died Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences hospital; he was 75. Though an official cause of death was not released at press time, a hospital spokeswoman stated that the actor had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's research center for the past two years. Born in New Jersey, Scheider pursued a career in boxing before turning to acting, and won an Obie award for his work with the New York Shakespeare Festival in the late '60s. His first major film appearances also began in the late '60s in such movies as Star! and Paper Lion, and it was in 1971 that he truly gained fame for his roles two popular thrillers, Klute and The French Connection; the latter earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. However, it was his role four years later in the Steven Spielberg thriller Jaws for which he became most well-known, playing a local lawman in a tourist beach town who must contend with the sudden appearance of a great white shark; his line, "You're gonna need a bigger boat," became one of the most well-known lines in contemporary film. Scheider also appeared in the ill-fated sequel Jaws 2 (after dropping out of the lead role in The Deer Hunter and in order to be let out of his Universal Studios contract) and the thriller Marathon Man before embarking on his most acclaimed performance, that of Broadway director and choreographer Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. The role, closely based on Fosse's life, brought Scheider his second Academy Award nomination in 1979, this time for Best Actor. Though none of Scheider's later films would reach the heights of his movies from the '70s, he continued to work steadily in both film and television, with diverse roles in such films as Still Of The Night, Blue Thunder, 2010, The Russia House, Naked Lunch, The Peacekeeper, The Myth Of Fingerprints (for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination) and the TV series SeaQuest DSV and Third Watch. Scheider is survived by his three children and his second wife, actress Brenda King.
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Re: Actor Roy Scheider Dies at 75
I read about this last night.
"You're gonna have to get a bigger boat"
RIP 
Re: Actor Roy Scheider Dies at 75
I read about this last night.
"You're gonna have to get a bigger boat"
RIP
I can't believe so few people, here have seen "Jaws".
Just me and you DTJ...
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- DoubleTalkingJive
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Re: Actor Roy Scheider Dies at 75
DoubleTalkingJive wrote:I read about this last night.
"You're gonna have to get a bigger boat"
RIP
I can't believe so few people, here have seen "Jaws".
Just me and you DTJ...
Wow, I would have thought more people would have seen that movie.
James you never saw Jaws?
For me it's definitely up in Classic status. It's one of those movies that made people just a bit nervous about swimming in the ocean right after you see it, I know when I was younger and at the beach in the ocean, you can't help but at some point after seeing that movie, start to hear the title music in your head, which is classic also, John Williams IMO is unbelievable with his musical scores and how many movie scores he's made classic but I degress.
I also think Richard Dreyfus was excellent in that movie as well.
Re: Actor Roy Scheider Dies at 75
Yeah, I've seen Jaws. Who hasn't.
Maybe people forgot the name of the star of the film and didn't click on this thread. I would imagine almost every person on the planet has watched that. Its almost required watching in your youth.
I never really liked the movie much. I did watch it as a kid though.
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:laugh:
Yeah, I've seen Jaws. Who hasn't.
Maybe people forgot the name of the star of the film and didn't click on this thread.
I hadn't forgotten his name...I saw the movie when I was a kid... When it was recess time, all the kids who had seen the movie on TV the night before would go around and pretend they were bathing and I was Brody screaming 'get the fuck out from the sea!!!!!!'
I watched it 5 times I guess. Jaws is still quite good, Jaws' second coming is so so and the rest is crap.
R.I.P. Roy.
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I liked Jaws II, I thought for a sequel it was pretty good premise having the shark trapping the kids out a sea. I have to say, I loved when Brody burned the shit out of it at the end with the power line.
Agreed, anything beyond that is total crap.
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