'Jaws' actor Scheider dies at 75
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Jaws star Roy Scheider died Sunday in Little Rock at age 75.





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

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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.

In 2005, one of Scheider's most famous lines in the movie — "You're gonna need a bigger boat" — was voted No. 35 on the American Film Institute's list of best quotes from U.S. movies.

That year, some 30 years after Jaws premiered, hundreds of movie buffs flocked to Martha's Vineyard, off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, to celebrate the great white shark.

The island's JawsFest '05 also brought back some of the cast and crew, including screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel that inspired Spielberg's classic. Spielberg, Scheider and Dreyfuss were absent.

Scheider was also politically active. He participated in rallies protesting U.S. military action in Iraq, including a massive New York demonstration in March 2003 that police said drew 125,000 chanting activists.

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thats too bad,,,he was a good actor..I had no idea he was that old?....where does the time go???

liked him in Blue thunder....52 pick-up & marathon man.

luv4u said:

whenever i see you as the first poster, i always assume my thread has been locked or is being moved to the department of mortuary science, aka the P&R forum

Fury said:

Mine posted right after you posted yours and I thought "awwwww shit! I'll have to delete mine"

And I deleted it

luv4u said:

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Fury said:

I worked in a pharmacy on southfield outside Detroit that he came into once a week to pick up his drugs ( this has been over 24 yrs ago ) - he would always stop and talk to me - nice guy, to me anyway, we would laugh and he would always say " see you next week engaging eyes " then wink and leave

RIP Roy

75 isnt that old

You are so right...75 is NOT old...but looking at his pic, i thought he looked alot younger than that, he is quite handsome..at least in my opinion..i always had a thing for older men anyway...lol