Acting credits
110
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Roy Scheider
Acting
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2.9
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Movies: 92Series: 18Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 6355
IMDb ID: nm0001702
Known for: Acting
Born: November 10, 1932
Died: February 10, 2008
Age: 75
Place of birth: Orange, New Jersey, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1951 - 2025
Years active: 75
Average TMDB rating: 6.44
Wikidata: Q216569
Also known as
Roy R. Scheider • Roy Richard Scheider
Other jobs
Presenter (1)
Biography
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Roy Scheider.
Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
as Self
2025 Movie
Iron Cross
as Joseph
2009 Movie
The Shark Is Still Working
as Narrator / Self
2009 Movie
Dark Honeymoon
as Sam
2008 Movie
Chicago 10
as Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)
2008 Movie
The Poet
as Rabbi
2007 Movie
If I Didn't Care
as Linus
2007 Movie
Dracula III: Legacy
as Cardinal Siqueros
2005 Movie
Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures
as Self
2004 Movie
The Best of So Graham Norton
as Self (archive footage)
2004 Movie
The Punisher
as Frank Castle, Sr.
2004 Movie
Love Thy Neighbor
as Fred
2003 Movie
Citizen Verdict
as Bull Tyler
2003 Movie
Dracula II: Ascension
as Cardinal Siqueros
2003 Movie
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
2003 Movie
Red Serpent
as Hassan
2002 Movie
King of Texas
as Henry Westover
2002 Movie
Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines
as Narrator
2002 Movie
Angels Don't Sleep Here
as Mayor Harry S. Porter
2002 Movie
Texas '46
as Colonel Gartner
2002 Movie
Time Lapse
as Agent La Nova
2001 Movie
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
as Self
2001 Movie
Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'
as Self
2001 Movie
The Making of Jaws 2
as Self (archive footage)
2001 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Roy Scheider.
Warship
as Narrator • 4 eps
2001 Series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Mark Ford Brady • 1 eps
2001 Series
The Diamond Hunters
as Jacobus Van der Byl • 2 eps
2001 Series
Secrets of the Dead
as Narrator (voice) • 5 eps
2000 Series
Third Watch
as Fyodor Chevchenko • 6 eps
1999 Series
The Seventh Scroll
as Grant Schiller • 2 eps
1999 Series
Family Guy
as Roy Scheider • 1 eps
1999 Series
So Graham Norton
as Self • 1 eps
1998 Series
E! True Hollywood Story
1 eps
1996 Series
seaQuest DSV
as Captain Nathan Bridger • 48 eps
1993 Series
The Howard Stern Show
as Self • 1 eps
1990 Series
American Experience
as Narrator (voice) • 1 eps
1988 Series
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host • 1 eps
1975 Series
People's Choice Awards
as Self • 1 eps
1975 Series
NOVA
as Narrator • 3 eps
1974 Series
Cannon
1 eps
1971 Series
The Oscars
as Self • 1 eps
1953 Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Francesco Barberini • 1 eps
1951 Series