Faleceu Roy Scheider

Shivers · Post by **Shivers** » February 11th, 2008, 8:35 am

Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie Jaws, died Sunday. He was 75.

Scheider died at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release a cause of death.

However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.

He was nominated for a best-supporting actor Oscar in 1971's The French Connection in which he played the police partner of Oscar winner Gene Hackman and for best-actor for 1979's All That Jazz, the autobiographical Bob Fosse film.

However, he was best known for his role in Steven Spielberg's 1975 film, Jaws, the enduring classic about a killer shark terrorizing beachgoers and well as millions of moviegoers.

Widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood blockbuster, it was also the first movie to earn $100 million at the box office. Scheider starred with Richard Dreyfuss, who played an oceanographer.

Actor Roy Scheider Dies at 75
Actor Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his leading role as the water-phobic police chief in the smash blockbuster Jaws, died Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences hospital; he was 75. Though an official cause of death was not released at press time, a hospital spokeswoman stated that the actor had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's research center for the past two years. Born in New Jersey, Scheider pursued a career in boxing before turning to acting, and won an Obie award for his work with the New York Shakespeare Festival in the late '60s. His first major film appearances also began in the late '60s in such movies as Star! and Paper Lion, and it was in 1971 that he truly gained fame for his roles two popular thrillers, Klute and The French Connection; the latter earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. However, it was his role four years later in the Steven Spielberg thriller Jaws for which he became most well-known, playing a local lawman in a tourist beach town who must contend with the sudden appearance of a great white shark; his line, "You're gonna need a bigger boat," became one of the most well-known lines in contemporary film. Scheider also appeared in the ill-fated sequel Jaws 2 (after dropping out of the lead role in The Deer Hunter and in order to be let out of his Universal Studios contract) and the thriller Marathon Man before embarking on his most acclaimed performance, that of Broadway director and choreographer Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. The role, closely based on Fosse's life, brought Scheider his second Academy Award nomination in 1979, this time for Best Actor. Though none of Scheider's later films would reach the heights of his movies from the '70s, he continued to work steadily in both film and television, with diverse roles in such films as Still Of The Night, Blue Thunder, 2010, The Russia House, Naked Lunch, The Peacekeeper, The Myth Of Fingerprints (for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination) and the TV series SeaQuest DSV and Third Watch. Scheider is survived by his three children and his second wife, actress Brenda King.

RIP

Skywatcher · Post by **Skywatcher** » February 11th, 2008, 9:17 am

Jaws, Russia House, SeaQuest, Blue Thunder...
Vi esse senhor em tanta coisa...
RIP

paupau · Post by **paupau** » February 11th, 2008, 9:32 am

Um grande actor que se perde. Os Incorruptíveis continua a ser o seu papel de que gosto mais.

RIP.

alquimista · Post by **alquimista** » February 11th, 2008, 9:38 am

Um dos meus actores favoritos do qual tinha muita pena de nao o ter visto em projectos ultimamente.

lud81 · Post by **lud81** » February 11th, 2008, 9:42 am

Skywatcher wrote:Jaws, Russia House, SeaQuest, Blue Thunder...
Vi esse senhor em tanta coisa...
RIP

Sorcerer, a obra prima esquecida de William Friedkin.

Borreicho · Post by **Borreicho** » February 11th, 2008, 10:10 am

RIP

gexplorer · Post by **gexplorer** » February 11th, 2008, 10:12 am

Uma grande perda para o mundo do cinema, mas ninguém vive para sempre

Um grande senhor do cinema sempre com uma grande classe!
RIP

NunoCalheiros · Post by **NunoCalheiros** » February 11th, 2008, 10:21 am

RIP

Estou à espera da edição espanhola do Seaquest. Não vai ser a mesma coisa

jimmy · Post by **jimmy** » February 11th, 2008, 10:43 am

RIP

Apesar da excelente carreira , para mim vai ser sempre lembrado pelo seu papel em Jaws...."You're gonna need a bigger boat"

mouto · Post by **mouto** » February 11th, 2008, 11:23 am

Patomanso · Post by **Patomanso** » February 11th, 2008, 11:33 am

Brilhante em ALL THAT JAZZ. E agora esse filme ficou ainda mais pujante...

tocoelho · Post by **tocoelho** » February 11th, 2008, 11:54 am

Também eu o tenho muito presente em O Tubarão.

Grande papel!

RIP.

Um abraço,

Tocoelho

Von Paulus · Post by **Von Paulus** » February 11th, 2008, 12:14 pm

O que me vem logo à cabeça foi o papel dele em 2010.

RIP

pmcordeiro · Post by **pmcordeiro** » February 11th, 2008, 1:59 pm

Ainda no fim de semana estive a rever O Tubarão.
RIP.

VitorSimao · Post by **VitorSimao** » February 11th, 2008, 8:23 pm

Mais um grande actor que morre.. e ainda só estamos em fevereiro... ainda chegamos ao fim do ano apenas com os camafeus vivos..