Roy Scheider
80 movies · 13 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 10, 1932
- Died
- Feb 10, 2008 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Orange, New Jersey, USA
- Also known as
- Roy R. Scheider · Roy Richard Scheider
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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Roy Scheider: movies and TV shows
Acting (93)
- 2009 Iron Cross
as Joseph
- 2008 Dark Honeymoon
as Sam
- 2008 Chicago 10
as Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)
- 2007 The Poet
as Rabbi
- 2007 If I Didn't Care
as Linus
- 2005 Dracula III: Legacy
as Cardinal Siqueros
- 2004 The Punisher
as Frank Castle, Sr.
- 2003 Love Thy Neighbor
as Fred
- 2003 Citizen Verdict
as Bull Tyler
- 2003 Dracula II: Ascension
as Cardinal Siqueros
- 2002 Red Serpent
as Hassan
- 2002 King of Texas
as Henry Westover
- 2002 Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines
as Narrator
- 2002 Angels Don't Sleep Here
as Mayor Harry S. Porter
- 2002 Texas '46
as Colonel Gartner
- 2001 Time Lapse
as Agent La Nova
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001
- 2000 Daybreak
as Stan Marshall
- 2000 Hitler's Lost Sub
as Narrator
- 2000 The Doorway
as Professor Lamont
- 2000 Chain of Command
as President Jack Cahill
- 2000
- 2000 Falling Through
as Earl
- 1999 RKO 281
as George Schaefer
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999 Silver Wolf
as John Rockwell
- 1999 Jaws 5
as Martin Brody (archive footage)
- 1998 The White Raven
as Tom Heath
- 1998 Better Living
as Larry
- 1998 Money Play$
as Johnny Tobin
- 1998 Evasive Action
as Enzo Marcelli
- 1998 World's Deadliest Sea Creatures
as Narrator
- 1997 The Rainmaker
as Wilfred Keeley
- 1997 The Myth of Fingerprints
as Hal
- 1997 The Peacekeeper
as President Robert Baker
- 1997
- 1997 Executive Target
as President Carlson
- 1997 The Definite Maybe
as Eddie Jacobson
- 1997 Plato's Run
as Senarkian
- 1994 Wild Justice
as Peter Stride
- 1993 Romeo Is Bleeding
as Don Falcone
- 1993 SeaQuest DSV
as Captain Nathan Bridger
- 1993
- 1992 When It Was a Game 2
as Passage Narrator (voice)
- 1991 Naked Lunch
as Dr. Benway
- 1991 When It Was a Game
as (voice)
- 1990 The Russia House
as Russell
- 1990 Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
as Paul Marish
- 1990 Bob Fosse: Steam Heat
as Joe Gideon (archive footage)
- 1990 The Fourth War
as Col. Jack Knowles
- 1989 Night Game
as Seaver
- 1989 Listen to Me
as Charlie Nichols
- 1989 Cohen and Tate
as Cohen
- 1988
- 1987 Jaws: The Revenge
as Martin Brody (archive footage)
- 1986 52 Pick-Up
as Harry Mitchell
- 1986 The Men's Club
as Cavanaugh
- 1986 Follies: In Concert
as Narrator
- 1984 2010
as Dr. Heywood Floyd
- 1984 Tiger Town
as Billy Young
- 1983 Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
as Jacobo Timerman
- 1983 Blue Thunder
as Murphy
- 1983
- 1982 Still of the Night
as Doctor Sam Rice
- 1979 All That Jazz
as Joe Gideon
- 1979 Last Embrace
as Harry Hannan
- 1978 Jaws 2
as Police Chief Martin Brody
- 1977 Sorcerer
as Scanlon / 'Dominguez'
- 1976 Marathon Man
as Henry 'Doc' Levy
- 1975 Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
as Sam Stoneman
- 1975 Jaws
as Brody
- 1974
- 1973 The Seven-Ups
as Buddy - Seven-Up
- 1972 The Outside Man
as Lenny
- 1972 The Assassination
as Michael Howard
- 1972 Assignment: Munich
as Jack Webster
- 1972
- 1971 The French Connection
as Buddy Russo
- 1971
- 1971 Klute
as Frank Ligourin
- 1970 Puzzle of a Downfall Child
as Mark
- 1970 Loving
as Skip
- 1969 Stiletto
as Bennett
- 1968 Paper Lion
as Man (uncredited)
- 1964 The Curse of the Living Corpse
as Philip Sinclair
- 1964
- 1955 A Wind from the South
as Dancer (uncredited)
- 1954
- 1951
Behind the camera (1)
- 2001
Talk shows and appearances (21)
- 2025
- 2009
- 2006
- 2004
- 2004
- 2003
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001
- 2000
- 1998 So Graham Norton
1 episode
- 1996 E! True Hollywood Story
2 episodes
- 1995
- 1994
- 1990 The Howard Stern Show
1 episode
- 1984
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
1 episode
- 1975 People's Choice Awards
1 episode
- 1974
- 1971 Film '72
4 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode