Roy Richard Scheider (/ˈʃaɪdər/; November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, one Golden Globe, and one BAFTA. Scheider's best-known roles include Frank Ligourin in Klute (1971), Police Chief Martin Brody in Jaws (1975) and its 1978 sequel, "Cloudy" Russo in The French Connection (1971), "Buddy" in The Seven-Ups (1973), Doc Levy in Marathon Man (1976), Scanlon / Dominguez in Sorcerer (1977), Joe Gideon in All That Jazz (1979), Frank Murphy in Blue Thunder (1983), and Dr. Heywood Floyd in the 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984). Subsequent credits included Naked Lunch (1991), Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), The Myth of Fingerprints (1997), The Rainmaker (1997), and The Punisher (2004). He portrayed Captain Nathan Bridger on NBC's seaQuest DSV from 1993–1996.

Filmography

• 2009Iron Cross — Joseph
• 2009The Shark Is Still Working — Narrator / Self
• 2008Chicago 10 — Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)
• 2008Dark Honeymoon — Sam
• 2007If I Didn't Care — Linus
• 2007The Poet — Rabbi
• 2005Dracula III: Legacy — Cardinal Siqueros
• 2004The Punisher — Frank Castle, Sr.
• 2003Citizen Verdict — Bull Tyler
• 2003Dracula II: Ascension — Cardinal Siqueros
• 2003Love Thy Neighbor — Fred
• 2002Angels Don't Sleep Here — Mayor Harry S. Porter
• 2002King of Texas — Henry Westover
• 2002Red Serpent — Hassan
• 2002Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines — Narrator
• 2002Texas '46 — Colonel Gartner
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Mark Ford Brady
• The Diamond Hunters — Jacobus Van der Byl
• 2001Time Lapse — Agent La Nova
• Warship — Narrator, Presenter
• 2000Chain of Command — President Jack Cahill
• 2000Daybreak — Stan Marshall
• 2000Falling Through — Earl
• 2000Hitler's Lost Sub — Narrator
• Secrets of the Dead — Narrator (voice)
• 2000The Doorway — Professor Lamont
• Family Guy — Roy Scheider, Roy Scheider / Narrator (voice)
• 1999Jaws 5 — Martin Brody (archive footage)
• 1999RKO 281 — George Schaefer
• 1999Silver Wolf — John Rockwell
• The Seventh Scroll — Grant Schiller
• Third Watch — Fyodor Chevchenko
• 1998Better Living — Larry
• 1998Evasive Action — Enzo Marcelli
• 1998Money Play$ — Johnny Tobin
• 1998The White Raven — Tom Heath
• 1998World's Deadliest Sea Creatures — Narrator
• 1997Executive Target — President Carlson
• 1997Plato's Run — Senarkian
• 1997The Definite Maybe — Eddie Jacobson
• 1997The Myth of Fingerprints — Hal
• 1997The Peacekeeper — President Robert Baker
• 1997The Rage
• 1997The Rainmaker — Wilfred Keeley
• 1994Wild Justice — Peter Stride
• 1993Romeo Is Bleeding — Don Falcone
• 1993SeaQuest DSV — Captain Nathan Bridger
• seaQuest DSV — Captain Nathan Bridger
• 1992When It Was a Game 2 — Passage Narrator (voice)
• 1991Naked Lunch — Dr. Benway
• 1991When It Was a Game — (voice)
• 1990Bob Fosse: Steam Heat — Joe Gideon (archive footage)
• 1990Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture — Paul Marish
• 1990The Fourth War — Col. Jack Knowles
• 1990The Russia House — Russell
• 1989Cohen and Tate — Cohen
• 1989Listen to Me — Charlie Nichols
• 1989Night Game — Seaver
• American Experience — Narrator (voice)
• 1987Jaws: The Revenge — Martin Brody (archive footage)
• 198652 Pick-Up — Harry Mitchell
• 1986Follies: In Concert — Narrator
• 1986The Men's Club — Cavanaugh
• 19842010 — Dr. Heywood Floyd
• 1984Tiger Town — Billy Young
• 1983Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
• 1983Blue Thunder — Murphy
• 1983Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number — Jacobo Timerman
• 1982Still of the Night — Doctor Sam Rice
• 1979All That Jazz — Joe Gideon
• 1979Last Embrace — Harry Hannan
• 1978Jaws 2 — Police Chief Martin Brody
• 1977Sorcerer — Scanlon / 'Dominguez'
• 1976Marathon Man — Henry 'Doc' Levy
• 1975Jaws — Brody
• 1975Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York — Sam Stoneman
• NOVA — Narrator
• 1973The Seven-Ups — Buddy - Seven-Up
• 1972Assignment: Munich — Jack Webster
• 1972The Assassination — Michael Howard
• 1972The Outside Man — Lenny
• 1972To Be Young, Gifted and Black
• Cannon
• 1971Klute — Frank Ligourin
• 1971The French Connection — Buddy Russo
• 1970Loving — Skip
• 1970Puzzle of a Downfall Child — Mark
• 1969Stiletto — Bennett
• 1968Paper Lion — Man (uncredited)
• 1964Smiles
• 1964The Curse of the Living Corpse — Philip Sinclair
• 1955A Wind from the South — Dancer (uncredited)
• The Secret Storm
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Francesco Barberini

Appearances as themselves (20)

• 2025Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story — Self
• 2006Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' — Self
• 2004Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures — Self
• 2004The Best of So Graham Norton — Self (archive footage)
• 2003A Decade Under the Influence — Self
• 2001Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man' — Self
• 2001Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection — Self
• 2001The Making of Jaws 2 — Self (archive footage)
• 2000The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' — Self
• So Graham Norton — Self
• E! True Hollywood Story — Self
• 1995The Making of 'Jaws' — Self
• 1994Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects — Self - Host
• The Howard Stern Show — Self
• 19842010 : The Odyssey Continues — Himself
• People's Choice Awards — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• 1974New England Our Way — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• The Oscars — Self