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Roy Scheider

1932 - 2008

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Roy Richard Scheider (; 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 through 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roy Scheider is the 449th most popular actor (down from 422nd in 2019), the 973rd most popular biography from United States (down from 765th in 2019) and the 231st most popular American Actor.

Roy Scheider is most famous for playing Chief Brody in the 1975 blockbuster film Jaws.

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Among actors, Roy Scheider ranks 449 out of 13,578. Before him are Jean Seberg, Claudia Mori, Ryan O'Neal, Anthony Perkins, Zoe Saldaña, and Joan Fontaine. After him are Lee Marvin, Kevin Bacon, Vanessa Williams, Louise Fletcher, Deborah Kerr, and Renée Zellweger.

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Among people born in 1932, Roy Scheider ranks 44. Before him are Ellen Burstyn, Michel Legrand, Frances E. Allen, Abdul Halim Khaddam, Zito, and Anthony Perkins. After him are Houari Boumédiène, Pat Morita, Valentino, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Adolfo Suárez, and V. S. Naipaul. Among people deceased in 2008, Roy Scheider ranks 29. Before him are Henry Molaison, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michael DeBakey, Harold Pinter, Leonid Hurwicz, and William F. Buckley Jr.. After him are Jules Dassin, Yma Sumac, Mel Ferrer, Gary Gygax, Jean-Marie Balestre, and Jacques Piccard.

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Among people born in United States, Roy Scheider ranks 973 out of 20,380. Before him are Omar Bradley (1893), Anthony Perkins (1932), Art Garfunkel (1941), Louise Hay (1926), Zoe Saldaña (1978), and Julius Axelrod (1912). After him are Richard E. Byrd (1888), Robert Evans (1930), Jimmie Rodgers (1897), Lee Marvin (1924), Kevin Bacon (1958), and Vanessa Williams (1963).

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