Roy Scheider, Actor in ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 75

nytimes.com ^ | February 11, 2008 | By DAVE KEHR

[newzjunkey]

I was a definitely a fan. RIP, Roy.

[null and void]

Jaws in 30 seconds (and re-enacted by bunnies)

[Faraday]

You might want to check Roy out in the under-appreciated 1973 film The Seven-Ups. Pretty good crime drama, after The French Connection and before Jaws.

Requiescat in pace.

[Sans-Culotte]

Marthon Man and Sorcerer were my favs.

Did you notice that his character in Marathon Man was gay? When he is on the phone to "Janie", and says "get your ass over here, I wanna see you!", he is on the phone to Janeway, the character played by William Devane, and presumably, his lover.

I remember Scheider primarily for All That Jazz. He was also a typical Hollyweird leftist.

[Cecily]

I loved him in Marathon Man and All That Jazz. Can you believe that Bob Fosse originally thought Richard Dreyfuss should play Joe Gideon? Roy said he got the role because Dreyfuss told him he didn’t want it, wanted to get out of it, and didn’t like Fosse. Fosse and Scheider ended up hitting it off and became friends.

RIP, Roy.

[packrat35]

No he was in 2010 the sequel.

[Cowboy Bob]

...died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, Ark.

What happened, did he throw his support to Obama?

[BillyBonebrake]

Agreed ... Sorcerer was awesome.

R.I.P.

[Clemenza]

He was in the awful sequel “2010.”

[NoGrayZone]

Ahhhhhhh!!! I’m STILL afraid of the water because of that movie!!!!

[Alright_on_the_LeftCoast]

bummerville.....I always liked Scheider....was in some really good movies.....

[Locomotive Breath]

Just to show his versatility ---

Joe Gideon: It's show time, folks.

[Clemenza]

Sorcerer was a remake of "Wages of Fear" and was highly underrated.

Funny you bring up Marathon Man, as I watched this afternoon.

"Is it Safe?"

[Hot Tabasco]

Thanks to him, I couldn’t swim in the ocean for a year.

I still can't........LOL!

[padre35]

Blue Thunder as well, wow.

RIP Mr. Scheider.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

[mamelukesabre]

Wow, time flies. Two more years and it’s 2010...the SEQUEL to 2001.

[pillut48]

2010, IIRC.

[fr_freak]

The point in the movie “Jaws” where the three men take off in the boat after the shark, until the end, is still one of my all-time favorite movie sequences.

[pillut48]

2010, IIRC. Also starred in “Seaquest” years ago.