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Welcome:
AKA:
Roy Richard Scheider
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Roy R Sheider
Birthplace:
Orange, New Jersey
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Oscar nominee Roy Scheider rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a string of soulful, streetwise supporting performances in hits like “Klute” (1971) and “The French Connection” (1971). He quickly graduated to leading man status on the strength of his turn as Amity police chief and reluctant shark hunter, Martin Brody, in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster “Jaws” (1975). Though he enjoyed a successful run in top-notch pictures like “Marathon Man” (1977), and showed impressive range as a pill-popping choreographer in Bob Fosse’s autobiographical, “All That Jazz” (1979), Scheider’s
Voice of Judge Julius Hoffman
2008
Grew up in Orange, New Jersey
Suffered a severe bout of rheumatic fever as a child
Became a amateur boxer as a teen; broke his nose in a match
Began acting in comic plays in college
Spent two years with Air Force as air traffic controller
Returned to college; acted in Shakespeare's "Richard III"
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