Speaking of 2010, a space oddysey
Roy Scheider just died. Sad.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/10/obit.scheider.ap/index.html
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died. He was 75.
Roy Scheider speaks at a gala in 2004. Scheider died Sunday at an Arkansas hospital.
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.
Scheider received two Oscar nominations, 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's1975 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.
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.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/10/obit.scheider.ap/index.html
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died. He was 75.
Roy Scheider speaks at a gala in 2004. Scheider died Sunday at an Arkansas hospital.
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.
Scheider received two Oscar nominations, 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's1975 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.
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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I read that in the paper this morning. What was absent from the article is a bit surprising. He also starred in the movie "Blue Thunder", a movie about America suspending civil liberties. Anyone remember it? 0 -
That sucks.. I loved Jaws and some of his other work... didn't now he was that old, hid it well!!! 0 -
He was great in Marathon Man. I really liked his work.
Rest in Peace Roy Scheider.
He was also great in "All that Jazz," a must see for any medical people, great surrealistic scene in the hospital when he had his heart attack.0 -
Allh! That Jazz - contains two of the best movie lines I've either heard!
... as he was being wheeled to the operating room for the surgery (that will eventually help him on his way to God) with his ex-wife walking on one side of his gurney, being wheeled along towards the operating room - and his girlfriend walking on the other side - he said (to the ex-wife), I'm sorry for all the bad things I ever did to you! Then turning to his girlfriend, " ... and I apologize to you for all the BAD things I'm GOING to do to YOU!
... classic!
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quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
He was great in Marathon Man. I really liked his work.
Rest in Peace Roy Scheider.
He was also great in "All that Jazz," a must see for any medical people, great surrealistic scene in the hospital when he had his heart attack.
Everyone was great in Marathon Man[:D]0 -
I agree, in Marathon Man you got Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Laurence Olivier, a damn all star cast.
I always watch Marathon Man right before I go to the dentist.0 -
Is it safe....[}:)]
Even the smell of oil of clove creeps me out...0
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