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 mid1980s He was nominated for two Academy Awards one Golden Globe and one BAFTA Scheiders bestknown 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 SevenUps 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 NBCs seaQuest DSV from 19931996
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