The Seven Ups was a good movie too...RIP Roy
Posted on 02/10/2008 7:24:47 PM PST by the scotsman
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Actor Roy Scheider, the star of such films as "Jaws" and "All That Jazz," died Sunday at 75 in Little Rock, Ark., his wife told The New York Times.
Scheider, who lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y., died of complications from a staph infection, Brenda Scheider told the newspaper. Scheider had suffered from multiple myeloma.
Scheider came to prominence in such '70s films as "Klute" and "The French Connection" -- for which he earned an Oscar nomination as Buddy Russo, the partner of police Detective Popeye Doyle, played by Gene Hackman.
Scheider may have been best known as the resort town police chief in the 1975 blockbuster "Jaws."
Scheider was born in 1932 in Orange, N.J. He earned a history degree from Franklin and Marshall College and then served three years in the U.S. Air Force
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Oh my.
RIP Mr. Scheider.
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Liked him best in 2010: The year We Make Contact.
Loved that film. He really made the character Heywood Floyd stand out.
Too bad. RIP.
Liked him best in 2010: The year We Make Contact.
Loved that film. He really made the character Heywood Floyd stand out.
Too bad. RIP.
oh dear.
RIP Roy, a good guy from Jersey.
May his reward in Heaven be greatly enriched for all the entertainment he gave us.
Prayers for his family.
The Seven Ups was a good movie too...RIP Roy
God rest his soul.
I thought he died years ago....
JAFO
True enough, just like it's my right to dislike him for it. Still liked his work though.
Multiple myeloma killed my mother in 1985. A very bad deal. The last time I saw him he did not look well. I suspect he had the disease even then. Sorry to hear of his passing.
2010 The Year We Make Contact
Protesting a military action while troops are in the field demoralizes the troops, wouldn't you say?
Actually, I don't care what you say. Just don't say it to me.
I loved his acting in All That Jazz, based on the life of Bob Fossi. He was very good at his trade.
RIP
Enjoyed him in several movies, but especially Jaws.
His best was “All That Jazz.” I never was into dancing, etc. (although my wife was) but I went to that movie because of her and absolutely loved it - because of him, not her.
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