Died at 93
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Roy Richard Scheider (/ˈʃaɪdər/; November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, one Golden Globe, and one BAFTA. Scheider's best-known roles include Frank Ligourin in Klute (1971), Police Chief Martin Brody in Jaws (1975) and its 1978 sequel, "Cloudy" Russo in The French Connection (1971), "Buddy" in The Seven-Ups (1973), Doc Levy in Marathon Man (1976), Scanlon / Dominguez in Sorcerer (1977), Joe Gideon in All That Jazz (1979), Frank Murphy in Blue Thunder (1983), and Dr. Heywood Floyd in the 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984). Subsequent credits included Naked Lunch (1991), Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), The Myth of Fingerprints (1997), The Rainmaker (1997), and The Punisher (2004). He portrayed Captain Nathan Bridger on NBC's seaQuest DSV from 1993–1996.
Roy Scheider
Martin Brody
for Martin Brody in Jaws: Resurface (1999)
Suggested by kikideetz
24 years after several Amity Beach residents were killed by a killer shark, a newly-widowed Michael Brody (George Clooney), takes his daughters Annie and Elsie (Kirsten Dunst and Mischa Barton), to move in with his parents Martin and Ellen Brody (Roy Scheider and Lorraine Gary). But after a shark attack interrupts the peaceful town for the first time in years, Michael forbids his daughters from going in the ocean. Little does he know, Annie plans on taking a boat out with new friends to a nearby island. With help from his father and younger brother Sean (Brad Pitt), Michael hunts down a new killer shark to save his daughter and her friends. This film would as a direct sequel to the original 1975 film, ignoring past sequels.
