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Roy Richard Scheider (born November 10, 1932 in Orange, New Jersey) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-nominated American actor.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Film Roles
- 3 Original Cast
- 4 Other Appearances
- 5 Myeloma
- 6 Filmography
- 7 External links
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Biography
As a child Scheider was an athlete, participating in organized baseball and boxing competitions. He attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey and was inducted into the school's hall of fame in 1985. He traded his boxing gloves for the stage, studying drama at both Rutgers University and Franklin and Marshall College, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After three years in the United States Air Force, he appeared with the New York Shakespeare Festival, and won an Obie Award in 1968.
Film Roles
Scheider's first film role was in the
1963 horror film
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. Four years later he would play in the Hollywood blockbuster
Jaws and four years after that, was nominated for his second Academy Award, this time as Best Actor in
All That Jazz.
Original Cast
He was originally cast as Michael in The Deer Hunter, as the second movie of a three movie deal with Universal Studios. Because he did not believe that the character would travel around the world to find his friend, he quit the picture. Universal executives were furious, but they let him out of his contract when he agreed to do Jaws 2.
In 1993, Scheider signed on to star in the Steven Spielberg-produced television series seaQuest DSV. 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 additional casting and writing changes in the third season, and Scheider decided to exit the show. His contract however, required that he make several guest appearances in season three.
Other Appearances
Scheider went on to star in films such as The Myth of Fingerprints (1997) and Silver Wolf (1998). He has also repeatedly guest starred on the NBC television series Third Watch. Among his most recent films is the crusty father of hero Frank Castle in The Punisher (2004).
Myeloma
In
2004, Scheider was diagnosed with
multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells. In
June 2005, he underwent a
bone marrow transplant to successfully treat the cancer.
Filmography
