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In the meantime, he had made one film, billed inconspicuously as Roy R Sheider, The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964), a low-budget horror movie in which he played an asthmatic...
Feb 11, 2008 · In the meantime, he had made one film, billed inconspicuously as Roy R. Sheider, The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964), a low budget 'old dark house' horror movie that cast him as an...
Feb 16, 2008 · In the meantime, he had made one film, billed inconspicuously as Roy R Sheider, The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964), a low-budget horror movie in which he played an asthmatic alcoholic among...
Biography. 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 ...
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Scheider was born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Anna Scheider (née Crosson) and auto mechanic Roy Bernhard Scheider. Scheider's mother was of Irish Catholic background and his father was German American and Protestant. As a child, Scheider was an athlete, participating in organized baseball and boxing competitions, for which he was classed as a...
Scheider's first film role was in the 1963 horror film The 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, in which he played a fictionalized version of New York City detective Sonny Grosso, garnered him an Oscar nomination for Best Supp...
In 1993, Scheider signed on to be the lead star in the Steven Spielberg-produced television series SeaQuest DSV as Captain Nathan Bridger. During the second season, Scheider voiced disdain for the direction in which the series was heading. His comments were highly publicized, and the media criticized him for panning his own show. NBC made additiona...
Scheider's first marriage was to Cynthia Bebout on November 8, 1962. The couple had one daughter, Maximillia, before divorcing in 1989. On February 11, 1989, he married actress Brenda King, with whom he had a son, Christian, and a daughter, Molly aka Kiki. They remained married until his death.
In 2004, Scheider was found to have multiple myeloma. In June 2005, he underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat the cancer. Scheider died on February 10, 2008 in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Hospital.
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Nov 24, 2007 · After a first inconclusive experience in a low -budget horror film, Roy Scheider returns to the theater. It was in 1968 that he began to appear in the cinema, in small roles at the start. His role as a teammate of Gene Hackman in French Connection of William Friedkin in 1971 made him known to the general public and earned him an appointment to ...
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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 an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
