Kole Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 Actor Roy Scheider Dies at 75 Actor Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his leading role as the water-phobic police chief in the smash blockbuster Jaws, died Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences hospital; he was 75. Though an official cause of death was not released at press time, a hospital spokeswoman stated that the actor had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's research center for the past two years. Born in New Jersey, Scheider pursued a career in boxing before turning to acting, and won an Obie award for his work with the New York Shakespeare Festival in the late '60s. His first major film appearances also began in the late '60s in such movies as Star! and Paper Lion, and it was in 1971 that he truly gained fame for his roles two popular thrillers, Klute and The French Connection; the latter earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. However, it was his role four years later in the Steven Spielberg thriller Jaws for which he became most well-known, playing a local lawman in a tourist beach town who must contend with the sudden appearance of a great white shark; his line, "You're gonna need a bigger boat," became one of the most well-known lines in contemporary film. Scheider also appeared in the ill-fated sequel Jaws 2 (after dropping out of the lead role in The Deer Hunter and in order to be let out of his Universal Studios contract) and the thriller Marathon Man before embarking on his most acclaimed performance, that of Broadway director and choreographer Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. The role, closely based on Fosse's life, brought Scheider his second Academy Award nomination in 1979, this time for Best Actor. Though none of Scheider's later films would reach the heights of his movies from the '70s, he continued to work steadily in both film and television, with diverse roles in such films as Still Of The Night, Blue Thunder, 2010, The Russia House, Naked Lunch, The Peacekeeper, The Myth Of Fingerprints (for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination) and the TV series SeaQuest DSV and Third Watch. Scheider is survived by his three children and his second wife, actress Brenda King. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urgh Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 jbg, rip Quote No one can survive becoming a legend.i ja kazem jebiga! Kao da je jebiga neka magichna rech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruko Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 au covece, nisam znao da je toliko mator. bas je bio car, slava mu. Quote Don't think of understanding as a 'mental process' at all. Rather ask yourself: in what kind of case, under what circumstances do we say "now i can go on". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MaudDib Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 nije bio neki glumac al je manjak tog kvaliteta nadomestio kvantitetom rip Quote • crno nam se piše • belo nam se šmrče • mind over matter • jebo sam vam mater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilauda Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 bas bedak covece, rip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wanderer Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 rip Quote -"Don't think, feel! It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory." -"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pipboy Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 nije bio neki glumac al je manjak tog kvaliteta nadomestio kvantitetom rip !!! Blasfemy... Rip. Quote "You're the first of the official death squads to whom we've been formally introduced... How do you do?" "By my deeds I honour him, V8." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ZerBah Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 RIP bio je jedan od legendi 70-ih i 80-ih... Quote А в чем сила, брат? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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