Roy Scheider
ActingAlso Known As
Roy R. Scheider, روی شیدر
Biography
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.
Movies
(93 total)
Jaws
as Brody
The Punisher
as Frank Castle, Sr.
Jaws 2
as Police Chief Martin Brody
The French Connection
as Buddy Russo
The Rainmaker
as Wilfred Keeley
Marathon Man
as Henry 'Doc' Levy
Naked Lunch
as Dr. Benway
Jaws: The Revenge
as Martin Brody (archive footage)
2010
as Dr. Heywood Floyd
Sorcerer
as Scanlon / "Dominguez"
All That Jazz
as Joe Gideon
Blue Thunder
as Murphy
Klute
as Frank Ligourin
The Russia House
as Russell
Romeo Is Bleeding
as Don Falcone
Dracula II: Ascension
as Cardinal Siqueros
Still of the Night
as Doctor Sam Rice
52 Pick-Up
as Harry Mitchell
Dracula III: Legacy
as Cardinal Siqueros
The Seven-Ups
as Buddy - Seven-Up
TV Shows
(21 total)
Family Guy
as Roy Scheider
Family Guy
as Roy Scheider / Narrator (voice)
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Mark Ford Brady
Third Watch
as Fyodor Chevchenko
seaQuest DSV
as Captain Nathan Bridger
NOVA
as Narrator
The Oscars
as Self
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
Secrets of the Dead
as Narrator
The Seventh Scroll
as Grant Schiller
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Francesco Barberini
So Graham Norton
as Self
The Diamond Hunters
as Jacobus Van der Byl
The Howard Stern Show
as Self
Warship
as Narrator