"Jaws" actor Roy Scheider dead at 75

[Villavic]

I thought I would alredy find this new in the Ledge:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his roles as a small-town police chief in "Jaws" and his portrait of famed choreographer Bob Fosse in "All That Jazz," died on Sunday at age 75.

Scheider died of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, at the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said.
He earned his first Oscar nomination for his supporting role as a narcotics detective partnered with Gene Hackman in the 1971 crime drama "The French Connection."

Eight years later, he was nominated as best lead actor for playing the womanizing, pill-popping Fosse alter ego Joe Gideon in the semi-autobiographical "All That Jazz," which Fosse co-wrote and directed.

But Scheider will perhaps best be remembered as the intrepid police chief of a small seaside resort who goes on a hunt for a giant man-eating shark in Steven Spielberg's blockbuster thriller "Jaws."


Sad to read it.. I remember I was shocked whan I saw Jaws, I was 9 I guess. Jaws 2 was cool too, not as good as the first but for a boy it was exciting.

[dnightshade]

Huge bummer. I was just thinking about him not long ago. I really adored him in Jaws, and in that too-short-lived TV serie, SeaQuest or something like that. He was a low-key kinda guy (even at the height of his fame, during Jaws) and you've got to respect that. Not to mention, he was a very attractive man! RIP ~

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by dnightshade

. He was a low-key kinda guy (even at the height of his fame, during Jaws) and you've got to respect that.

And remember his great performance in ALL THAT JAZZ too.