On Sunday, February 10th, 2008, Roy Scheider died at the University or Arkansas Medical Sciences Hospital from possible complications of a staph infection. He was 75.
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Roy Scheider has always been one of my favorite actors. I was first exposed to him thanks to the blockbuster classic, Jaws, but the first movie I ever saw him in was The French Connection. And then, thanks to the Movie Loft (with Dana Hersey), I watched Roy Scheider reprise his French Connection role in the spin off, The Seven-Ups. Two great movies (with two fantastic car chases).
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I think loved Roy Scheider so much because I saw him as me thirty and forty years from that point. He was the common man and the backbone in those films, just like he was in Jaws, and Blue Thunder, and 2010. He had some edgier stuff later on, films like 52 Pick-Up, Cohen and Tate, and The Fourth War, but he handled those roles with all the grace of a veteran actor. Of the over eighty works to his credit, the one I wish I had seen, and the one I will be adding to my 2008 Resolutions list, is All That Jazz.
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Roy Scheider, may you rest in peace.
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Roy Scheider (November 10, 1932 - February 10, 2008)
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