Roy Scheider

Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in the 1975 movie Jaws, his Academy Award nominated roles as Joe Gideon in the movie All That Jazz and Buddy Russo in The French Connection, and as Captain Nathan Bridger in Steven Spielberg's Emmy Award winning television series seaQuest DSV. He played "Heywood Floyd " in the 1984 film 2010.

Scheider's mother was an Irish-American Roman Catholic; his father was a German-American Protestant. Scheider had a daughter from his first marriage, and a son and daughter from his second marriage. He had a form of cancer called multiple myeloma, and died of an staphylococcal infection, aged 75.

 Other websites 

 The Roy Scheider Resource 
 Obituary  in The Times

 Roy Scheider  at the Starpulse Biography site
 Roy Scheider  at The New York Times
 Roy Scheider - Obituary and public tribute 
 Plum TV Hamptons Tribute 
 William Friedkin on Roy Scheider 

Category:Actors from New Jersey
Category:American movie actors
Category:American television actors
Category:American voice actors
Category:People from Orange, New Jersey
Category:Deaths from staphylococcal infection
Category:1932 births
Category:2008 deaths
Category:Deaths from multiple myeloma
Category:American stage actors