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The American actor Roy Scheider, best known as the hero in the blockbuster Jaws, has died aged 75.
The two-time Oscar nominee died yesterday in hospital in Little Rock Arkansas after being treated for cancer.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital did not release a cause of death but said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma for the past two years.
Scheider was nominated for an Oscar twice: for best supporting actor in 1971's The French Connection; in which he played the police partner of the Oscar winner Gene Hackman; and for best actor for All That Jazz, the autobiographical Bob Fosse film of 1979.
He was best known for his role in Steven Spielberg's 1975 film Jaws, the enduring classic about a killer shark terrorising holidaymakers at Martha's Vineyard.
It is hailed as the film that launched the Hollywood blockbuster era and was the first movie to earn $100m at the box office.
Scheider starred with Richard Dreyfuss, who played an oceanographer.
Speaking to the BBC, Dreyfuss paid tribute to Scheider. "He was a wonderful guy. He was what I call a knockaround actor. A knockaround actor to me is a compliment that means a professional that lives the life of a professional actor and doesn't yell and scream at the fates and does his job and does it as well as he can."
In 2005, one of Scheider's most famous lines in the movie — "You're gonna need a bigger boat" — was voted number 35 on the American Film Institute's list of best movie quotes.
That year, three decades after Jaws came out, movie buffs flocked to Martha's Vineyard, off the south-east coast of Massachusetts, to celebrate the great white shark.
The island's JawsFest 05 brought back some of the cast and crew, including the screenwriter, Carl Gottlieb, and Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel that inspired the Spielberg classic.
Scheider was politically active. He participated in rallies protesting against US military action in Iraq, including a New York demonstration in March 2003 that police said drew 125,000 people.
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Didn't he also start a not-for-profit organization that helped raise money for impoverished Jews in desperate need of dental care? I believe it was called "JAWS FOR JEWS"?
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Not really sure. However I idolized his character in Jaws. Well, I idolized every character but Chief Brody was one of my favourites. Great actor. RIP Roy - we'll miss you.
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Yes, his role in JAWS was very convincing.
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Didn't he also start a not-for-profit organization that helped raise money for impoverished Jews in desperate need of dental care? I believe it was called "JAWS FOR JEWS"?
He wasn't Jewish though, maybe he was a Christian Zionist...
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Who cares what religion he was. One thing is for sure -he was one of the best actors of our time.
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"You're gonna need a bigger boat" :::D
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"You're gonna need a bigger boat" :::D
Thats a classic Jaws quote. One of my fave.
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This reminds me of a post I put up last year ;D
"As much as I hate Spielberg.."
http://jtf.org/forum_english/index.php?topic=146.0
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Was he also in the Marathon Man? If that was him playing as Dustin Hoffman's brother, I liked him in that role a lot.
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Was he also in the Marathon Man? If that was him playing as Dustin Hoffman's brother, I liked him in that role a lot.
That was him.
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The funny thing was that I was watching the dvd of jaws on Sat. night. The day before he died.
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I am sad. :( I liked him in The French Connection.
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The funny thing was that I was watching the dvd of jaws on Sat. night. The day before he died.
I watched it Friday night..
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Jaws was the first movie that Speilberg directed that became a big hit.
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It's too bad about what happened with Scheider. Multiple myloma is an extremely debilitating illness!
Hey, but at least he didn't get into a bad car accident flipping his car over where he needed the Jaws of life to get him out.
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I actually liked him in 2010 a Space Odyssey. Forgot he was in that didn't you! Okay, so I'm a scifi geek. 8)
Sad news, I enjoyed his work, and he seemed like a decent man.
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Roy Scheider did a great job as a Russian mobster on the tv show "Third Watch" I was and still a big fan of that show and was suprised that he can speak with a russian accent.
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He was also good in the helicopter film "Blue Thunder" taking on right-wing fanatics at the 1984 LA Olympics
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Also in "The Last Embrace"
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with the beautiful Janet Margolin, also deceased
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as two Jews trying to solve a Kabbalistic curse.
And also with Jurgen Prochnow as two old soldiers trying to start WW3 in "The Fourth War"
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Hell of an actor, R.I.P. Jaws will always be a classic. O0
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Nobody can deny that JAWS was a movie with plenty of bite...
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Jaws 3-D(which Scheider didn't star in) was the worst movie I've ever seen.
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Yes the Jaws sequels, except possibly Jaws 2, wer all terrible.
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Jaws is a classic movie. He also played the father in the Thomas Jane version The Punisher which I quite enjoyed. He wasn't Jewish? I always assumed he was.
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Jaws is a classic movie. He also played the father in the Thomas Jane version The Punisher which I quite enjoyed. He wasn't Jewish? I always assumed he was.
I always assumed Billy Joel was Irish, so we're even:P
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Jaws 3-D(which Scheider didn't star in) was the worst movie I've ever seen.
I beg to differ. JAWS 3 was the 2nd best Jaws ever !!!! but I think I am alone in my opinion.
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Jaws 3-D was the worst movie ever.
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Nah....JAWS 3D was AMAZING !
The "mother shark" was stunning. Yes there were some goofy effects here and there but overall it was a great movie.
JAWS 4 was the worst ever if you ask me.
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Jaws 4 was also bad, not as bad as Jaws 3-D. When I saw it, I yelled in the movie, "Hey Jaws, your mommy's calling you!!". I got bigger laughs than the lousy movie.
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Jaws 4 was also bad, not as bad as Jaws 3-D. When I saw it, I yelled in the movie, "Hey Jaws, your mommy's calling you!!". I got bigger laughs than the lousy movie.
I agree
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Jaws 4 was also bad, not as bad as Jaws 3-D. When I saw it, I yelled in the movie, "Hey Jaws, your mommy's calling you!!". I got bigger laughs than the lousy movie.
STOP IT !!!!!
ENOUGH WITH THIS RIDICULE OF JAWS 3 >:(
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Do you know someone in Jaws 3?
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lol....nah.
but I love the film to bits. Not as good as the original but its one of the best ever.
i think I may be attached to it b/c it was the 1st Jaws film I ever saw and got me obsessed w/ sharks.
I would rent it over and over again when i was a little boy !