Roy Scheider
1932 - 2008
I grew up watching Roy Scheider movies. In a lot of ways, he was my favorite actor growing up. He was an enormous character actor as well as a leading man. His most triumphant role will always be the Academy Award nominated All That Jazz, but most people will remember him for his Chief Brody in Jaws. Of course there was Blue Thunder and Tiger Town (both from 1983) when I was a kid but my favorite of all his films to this day is still 2010: The Year We Make Contact. I will always remember him as a combination of Dr. Heywood Floyd (in that vastly under-rated film) and Brody. His talent for drawing an audience into his likable screen persona was effortless. On screen he could play a man you would follow into battle or maybe just someone you'd like to have a beer with after work. He was that kind of 'everyman' that in a way I always aspired to be. People always talk about how Tom Hanks and Kevin Costner are the James Stewarts and Gary Coopers of our generation, but who will be our new Roy Scheider?
The films I really loved him in were:
Klute (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
The Seven-Ups (1973)
Jaws (1975)
Marathon Man (1976)
Sorcerer (1977)
All That Jazz (1979)
2010 (1984)
52 Pick-Up (1986)
The Russia House (1990)
he will be missed.
1932 - 2008
I grew up watching Roy Scheider movies. In a lot of ways, he was my favorite actor growing up. He was an enormous character actor as well as a leading man. His most triumphant role will always be the Academy Award nominated All That Jazz, but most people will remember him for his Chief Brody in Jaws. Of course there was Blue Thunder and Tiger Town (both from 1983) when I was a kid but my favorite of all his films to this day is still 2010: The Year We Make Contact. I will always remember him as a combination of Dr. Heywood Floyd (in that vastly under-rated film) and Brody. His talent for drawing an audience into his likable screen persona was effortless. On screen he could play a man you would follow into battle or maybe just someone you'd like to have a beer with after work. He was that kind of 'everyman' that in a way I always aspired to be. People always talk about how Tom Hanks and Kevin Costner are the James Stewarts and Gary Coopers of our generation, but who will be our new Roy Scheider?
The films I really loved him in were:
Klute (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
The Seven-Ups (1973)
Jaws (1975)
Marathon Man (1976)
Sorcerer (1977)
All That Jazz (1979)
2010 (1984)
52 Pick-Up (1986)
The Russia House (1990)
he will be missed.
