Roy Sheider passed away at age 75.

[gamevet]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080211/.../obit_scheider

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - 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.

"He was a wonderful guy. He was what I call 'a knockaround actor,'" Dreyfuss told The Associated Press on Sunday.

[YellerDog]

Shoulda been Rob Schneider.


I forgot Roy Sheider was also in Naked Lunch, which was a throughly strange film.

[Spanky McGee]

This is too bad. He made SeaQuest worth watching.

[bbobb]

Seaquest claims another.

Will Ted Raimi or Michael Ironside be next?

[Dolemite]

I always enjoyed this guy's work. I mean, what a fucking great talent- he was iconic in Jaws. Shit, he was even good as The Punisher's daddy.

Will Ted Raimi.....be next?

One can only hope.

[Mr-K]

Roy Scheider is (aw, was) awesome. He even made 2010 a pretty good movie despite... it being what it was. Shame he never really got the exposure I think he deserved as an actor (Nominated for a BSA Oscar , but then again, they hand those out to anyone *Edit* - And best actor, I didn't know that).

[icarusfall]

I loved how straight up he was. If you were wearing a bad hat he'd totally tell you.

[cka]

he's flying the blue thunder in heaven

edit

Seaquest claims another.

Will Ted Raimi or Michael Ironside be next?

it'll be that smartass dolphin; he'll get caught in a tuna net and I'll eat him

[Hubbitron]

You oughtta come down here and try chumming some of this shit.

[SpoDaddy]

Seaquest claims another.

Will Ted Raimi or Michael Ironside be next?

Hopefully the kid from Neverending Story 2 and SideKicks that used to hump the dolphin is next.