Roy Scheider
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 Connection (1971), "Buddy" in The Seven-Ups (1973), Doc Levy in Marathon Man (1976), Scanlon / Dominguez in Sorcerer (1977), Joe Gideon in All That Jazz (1979), Frank Murphy in Blue Thunder (1983), and Dr. Heywood Floyd in the 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984). Subsequent credits included Naked Lunch (1991), Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), The Myth of Fingerprints (1997), The Rainmaker (1997), and The Punisher (2004). He portrayed Captain Nathan Bridger on NBC's seaQuest DSV from 1993–1996.
115 acting credits
Acting · 115
Family Guy
1999
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Saturday Night Live
1975
NOVA
1974
Third Watch
1999
American Experience
1988
seaQuest DSV
1993
Cannon
1971
The Oscars
1953
People's Choice Awards
1975
The Secret Storm
1954
The Punisher
2004
Jaws
1975
Film '72
1971
Love of Life
1951
Secrets of the Dead
2000
So Graham Norton
1998
The Rainmaker
1997
Jaws 2
1978
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Sorcerer
1977
The French Connection
1971
2010
1984
The Howard Stern Show
1990
Jaws: The Revenge
1987
Blue Thunder
1983
The Seventh Scroll
1999
Romeo Is Bleeding
1993
Marathon Man
1976
Naked Lunch
1991
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Klute
1971
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025
52 Pick-Up
1986
All That Jazz
1979
The Russia House
1990
Dracula II: Ascension
2003
Loving
1970
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
1994
Listen to Me
1989
Chicago 10
2008
Evasive Action
1998
Still of the Night
1982
The Diamond Hunters
2001
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
The Outside Man
1972
The Peacekeeper
1997
RKO 281
1999
Dracula III: Legacy
2005
Night Game
1989
Last Embrace
1979
King of Texas
2002
Stiletto
1969
The Men's Club
1986
The Shark Is Still Working
2009
The Seven-Ups
1973
The Poet
2007
The Making of 'Jaws'
1995
Silver Wolf
1999
The Myth of Fingerprints
1997
Angels Don't Sleep Here
2002
The Assassination
1972
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
1970
2010 : The Odyssey Continues
1984
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
1975
Paper Lion
1968
Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
1983
Dark Honeymoon
2008
The Definite Maybe
1997
The Rage
1997
Executive Target
1997
The Fourth War
1990
Money Play$
1998
Red Serpent
2002
Daybreak
2000
Love Thy Neighbor
2003
Warship
2001
Cohen and Tate
1989
The White Raven
1998
SeaQuest DSV
1993
Wild Justice
1994
The Making of Jaws 2
2001
Chain of Command
2000
Tiger Town
1984
Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures
2004
Smiles
1964
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
2006
The Doorway
2000
Time Lapse
2001
Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
1990
Plato's Run
1997
Falling Through
2000
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972
Iron Cross
2009
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000
When It Was a Game 2
1992
Better Living
1998
Bob Fosse: Steam Heat
1990
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001
Jaws Toy Movie
2020
Citizen Verdict
2003
If I Didn't Care
2007
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
2001
Follies: In Concert
1986
When It Was a Game
1991
A Wind from the South
1955
Assignment: Munich
1972
New England Our Way
1974
The Curse of the Living Corpse
1964
Texas '46
2002
Jaws 5
1999
Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines
2002
Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
1983
World's Deadliest Sea Creatures
1998
Hitler's Lost Sub
2000