Roy Scheider Dead at 75!

Just heard on the local news that Roy Scheider, star of Jaws and the French Connection, as well as may other movies has died at 75 years old.

met him a couple of times in ny city,, was always a nice guy to me ,, god bless

Very Sad...

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Roy Scheider

'Jaws' Actor Scheider Dies at 75
Feb. 10, 2008, 10:04 PM EST
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died. He was 75.
Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release his cause of death.
However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.
Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss starred in the 1975 movie, "Jaws," which was widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood blockbuster. It was the first film to earn $100 million at the box office.
In 2005, one of Scheider's most famous lines in the movie — "You're gonna need a bigger boat" — was voted No. 35 on the American Film Institute's list of best quotes from U.S. movies.
That year, some 30 years after "Jaws" premiered, hundreds of movie buffs flocked to Martha's Vineyard, off the southeastern coast of Massachusetts, to celebrate the great white shark that terrified millions of moviegoers.
The island's JawsFest '05 also brought back some of the cast and crew, including screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel that inspired Steven Spielberg's enduring classic.
Spielberg, Scheider, who played a police chief, and Dreyfuss, who played an oceanographer, were absent from Jawsfest '05. Co-star Robert Shaw, who played Quint, died in 1978.
Scheider also participated in rallies protesting U.S. military action in Iraq, including a massive New York demonstration in March 2003 that police said drew 125,000 chanting activists.








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Roy "you're gonna need a bigger boat" Scheider deceased. Very sorry to hear that. I have always liked him since the original Jaws when as Chief Martin Brody he had some of the most memorable lines in movie history.

Some personal favorites:

Brody: Yeah, but I'm not drunk enough to go out on a boat.
Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss): Yes, you are.
Brody: No, I'm not.
Hooper: Yes, you are.
Brody: I can't do that.
Hooper: Yes, you can.

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Brody: Then why don't we have one more drink and go down and cut that shark open?
Ellen Brody(Lorraine Gray): Martin? Can you do that?
Brody: I can do anything; I'm the chief of police.


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Brody: You're certifiable, Quint! You know that?
Quint (Robert Shaw): Yeah, yeah, yeah...


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Brody: Smile you son of a BITCH.

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And the immortal:

Brody: That's some bad hat, Harry.

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RIP Roy Scheider..




wil.

Damn shame. Jaws is one of my favorite movies. I loved Robert Shaw as Quint, one of the best acting i've ever seen.

one of my all time favorite movies here Jaws and a great actor that will be miss..........