Re: Actor Roy Scheider dies at 75

Anim8rFSK wrote:
> http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=roy+scheider&ie=UTF-8
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> Actor Roy Scheider dies at 75
> 
> Published: Feb. 10, 2008 at 9:33 PM
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> LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Actor Roy Scheider, the star of such

> films as "Jaws" and "All That Jazz," died Sunday at 75 in Little Rock, 
> Ark., his wife told The New York Times.
> 
> Scheider, who lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y., died of complications from a 
> staph infection, Brenda Scheider told the newspaper. Scheider had 
> suffered from multiple myeloma.
> 
> Scheider came to prominence in such '70s films as "Klute" and "The 
> French Connection" -- for which he earned an Oscar nomination as Buddy 
> Russo, the partner of police Detective Popeye Doyle, played by Gene 
> Hackman.
> 
> Scheider may have been best known as the resort town police chief in the

> 1975 blockbuster "Jaws."
> 
> Scheider was born in 1932 in Orange, N.J. He earned a history degree 
> from Franklin and Marshall College and then served three years in the 
> U.S. Air Force.
> 
> He made his professional New York stage debut in a 1961 production of 
> "Romeo and Juliet.
> 
> Scheider was nominated for a best actor Oscar for his performance as a 
> self destructive Broadway choreographer in "All That Jazz."
> 
> In the 1990s, Scheider starred in the TV series "SeaQuest DSV" as Capt. 
> Nathan Bridger.
> 
Sad Day.  2010 is one of my all time favorites.