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Roy Scheider (born November 10, 1932) is an
American actor.

Born in Orange, New Jersey, was an athlete as a
child, participating in organized baseball and
boxing competitions.  Scheider traded his boxing
gloves for the stage, studying drama at both
Rutgers University and Franklin and Marshall
College.  After three years in the United States
Air Force, he appeared with the New York
Shakespeare Festival, and won an Obie Award in
1968.

Scheider's first film role was in a forgettable
horror film in 1963 called Curse of the Living
Corpse (he was billed as "Roy R. Sheider").  In
1971 he appeared in two highly popular movies,
Klute and The French Connection, the latter
garnering him a nomination for Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor.

In 1975, Scheider starred in Jaws (movie)|Jaws,
and in 1978 its first sequel. In 1979, he broke
the tough-guy stereotype he had found himself in
by starring as musical theater director Joe Gideon
in Bob Fosse's autobiographical movie All That
Jazz, for which he was nominated for Academy Award
for Best Actor|Best Actor.

Scheider has continued to make movies through the
years, and also starred in the Steven
Spielberg-produced television series seaQuest DSV.

==Filmography==
*Paper Lion (1968)
*Stiletto (1969)
*Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1969)
*Klute (1971)
*The French Connection (1971)
*The Seven-Ups (1973)
*Jaws (movie)|Jaws (1975)
*Marathon Man (1976)
*Wages of Fear (1977)
*Jaws 2 (1978)
*All That Jazz (1979)
*Still of the Night (1983)
*Blue Thunder (1983)
*Tiger Town (1983)
*2010: Odyssey Two (1984)
*The Men's Club (1986)
*52 Pick-Up (1986)
*Cohen and Tate (1988)
*Listen to Me (1989)
*Night Game (1989)
*The Fourth War (1989)
*The Russia House (1990)
*Somebody has to Shoot the Picture (1990)
*Naked Lunch (movie)|Naked Lunch (1991)
*Wild Justice (1993)
*Romeo is Bleedings (1994)
*The Peacekeeper (1996)
*Excecutive Target (1997)
*The Peacekeeper (1997)
*The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
*The Rainmaker (1997)
*The Rage (1997)
*Evasive Action (1998)
*Falling Through (1999)
*Daybreak (movie)|Daybreak (2000)
*The Doorway (2000)
*Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
*The Punisher (2004)