RIP Roy Scheider

[Dr Fear]

Solid actor.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Very underrated actor.

RIP.

 

[WorsterMan]

This comes as a shock to me, RS was one of my favorite actors. RIP

 

[TyphoonSe7en]

That is too bad, really solid actor RIP

 

[Third Coast]

Great actor. Every time I see a 30 ft great white, I think of him.

RIP

 

[LonghornSean]

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

 

[FirstTimeLurker]

this is shark week on cable too... spooky.

One of the top 5 movies of all time.

 

[Jive_Turkey]

RIP

To the Trifecta.

He did star in that horrible movie about a college debate team, also starring Kirk Cameron and Jamie Gertz. But the rest of his body of work should overshadow that.

 

[Brubricker]

In case you missed it, check out "52 Pick-Up" from back in the mid-80's. Very underrated suspense flick. Scheider kicked *** in the lead role, plus Ann Margaret and Kelly Preston were lookin' really hot.

 

[nyc matt]

I tend to hate musicals, but All That Jazz was a pretty f-ing good movie, and helped make me a huge fan of Scheider.

"It's showtime, folks!"

 

[chiwanna]

"I used to hate the water..."

RIP

 

[GhostOfTomJoad]

I'm with NYC Matt. It's easy to think of Scheider as Chief Brody, but his work in All That Jazz, The French Connection, Marathon Man, etc. shows just how versatile of an actor he was.

RIP.

 

[DigglerontheHoof]

RIP. Agree w/ all that was said.

 

[DRAG69]

Another great, underappreciated Scheider movie is Sorcerer from 1977.
The Link

 

[HornsN04]

Great actor. RIP

 

[stockjock]

RIP to one of the all-time greats.

 

[TrashMaster G]

RIP

 

[general35]

blue thunder...."catch you later."

 

[ballrific]

ahh, blue thunder. wasn't he also in "naked lunch"? I think that was it but don't recall. RIP

 

[Jive_Turkey]

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[bevo barry]

Let's not forget his turn in 2011, the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey". Thanks to him, I enjoyed that flick, even though everyone and his brother compared it to Kubrick's "masterpiece" and thus ran it down. Of course, no sequel could live up to those expectations, but Roy pulled the team on his back over the finish line to a halfway decent film.

 

[mia1994]

I can only hope that when his body went to the morgue, the corner said, "This was no boating accident!"

 

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[ShadowNinja]

RIP, Chief Brody was an icon of my childhood

 

[llanoflash]

Blue Thunder was the one movie I got with my betamax back in the day...

 

[Macanudo]

Check out The Seven-Ups too. Another good Scheider movie.

 

[Texas]

He played a great big brother to Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man as said earlier. Weird to think he apparently was the first choice to play John Rambo in First Blood.

 

[71grad]

I really liked Blue Thunder, I still have a JAFO cap. Great actor, never really a Hollywood "personality". You never saw his face plastered all over the covers of the tabloids at the supermarket check out counter. WE will miss you Chief Brody.

 

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[El Torito]

RIP.