Roy Scheider

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.

Known For

Family Guy

Roy Scheider

Family Guy

Roy Scheider / Narrator (voice)

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

NOVA

Narrator

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Mark Ford Brady

American Experience

Narrator (voice)

Third Watch

Fyodor Chevchenko

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story	Self
2025	Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies	Self - (archive footage)
2009	The Shark Is Still Working	Narrator / Self
2009	Iron Cross	Joseph
2008	Chicago 10	Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)
2008	Dark Honeymoon	Sam
2007	The Poet	Rabbi
2007	If I Didn't Care	Linus
2006	Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'	Self
2005	Dracula III: Legacy	Cardinal Siqueros
2004	The Punisher	Frank Castle, Sr.
2004	Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures	Self
2003	Dracula II: Ascension	Cardinal Siqueros
2003	Citizen Verdict	Bull Tyler
2003	Love Thy Neighbor	Fred
2003	A Decade Under the Influence	Self
2002	King of Texas	Henry Westover
2002	Texas '46	Colonel Gartner
2002	Red Serpent	Hassan
2002	Angels Don't Sleep Here	Mayor Harry S. Porter
2002	Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines	Narrator
2001	Time Lapse	Agent La Nova
2001	Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection	Self
2001	Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'	Self
2001	The Making of Jaws 2	Self (archive footage)
2000	Daybreak	Stan Marshall
2000	Chain of Command	President Jack Cahill
2000	The Doorway	Professor Lamont
2000	Hitler's Lost Sub	Narrator
2000	Falling Through	Earl
2000	The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'	Self
1999	RKO 281	George Schaefer
1999	Silver Wolf	John Rockwell
1999	Jaws 5	Martin Brody (archive footage)
1998	Evasive Action	Enzo Marcelli
1998	Money Play$	Johnny Tobin
1998	The White Raven	Tom Heath
1998	Better Living	Larry
1998	World's Deadliest Sea Creatures	Narrator
1997	The Rainmaker	Wilfred Keeley
1997	The Peacekeeper	President Robert Baker
1997	Plato's Run	Senarkian
1997	The Myth of Fingerprints	Hal
1997	Executive Target	President Carlson
1997	The Definite Maybe	Eddie Jacobson
1997	The Rage
1995	The Making of 'Jaws'	Self
1994	Wild Justice	Peter Stride
1994	Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects	Self - Host
1993	Romeo Is Bleeding	Don Falcone
1992	When It Was a Game 2	Passage Narrator (voice)
1991	Naked Lunch	Dr. Benway
1991	When It Was a Game	(voice)
1990	The Russia House	Russell
1990	The Fourth War	Col. Jack Knowles
1990	Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture	Paul Marish
1990	Bob Fosse: Steam Heat	Joe Gideon (archive footage)
1989	Cohen and Tate	Cohen
1989	Night Game	Seaver
1989	Listen to Me	Charlie Nichols
1987	Jaws: The Revenge	Martin Brody (archive footage)
1986	52 Pick-Up	Harry Mitchell
1986	The Men's Club	Cavanaugh
1986	Follies: In Concert	Narrator
1984	2010	Dr. Heywood Floyd
1984	Tiger Town	Billy Young
1984	2010 : The Odyssey Continues	Himself
1983	Blue Thunder	Murphy
1983	Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number	Jacobo Timerman
1983	Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
1982	Still of the Night	Doctor Sam Rice
1979	Last Embrace	Harry Hannan
1979	All That Jazz	Joe Gideon
1978	Jaws 2	Police Chief Martin Brody
1977	Sorcerer	Scanlon / "Dominguez"
1976	Marathon Man	Henry 'Doc' Levy
1975	Jaws	Brody
1975	Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York	Sam Stoneman
1974	New England Our Way	Self
1973	The Seven-Ups	Buddy - Seven-Up
1972	The Outside Man	Lenny
1972	The Assassination	Michael Howard
1972	Assignment: Munich	Jack Webster
1972	To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1971	Klute	Frank Ligourin
1971	The French Connection	Buddy Russo
1970	Puzzle of a Downfall Child	Mark
1970	Loving	Skip
1969	Stiletto	Bennett
1968	Paper Lion	Man (uncredited)
1964	The Curse of the Living Corpse	Philip Sinclair
1964	Smiles
1955	A Wind from the South	Dancer (uncredited)

Year	TV Show	Role
2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Mark Ford Brady
2001	The Diamond Hunters	Jacobus Van der Byl
2001	Warship	Narrator
2000	Secrets of the Dead	Narrator
1999	Third Watch	Fyodor Chevchenko
1999	Family Guy	Roy Scheider
1999	Family Guy	Roy Scheider / Narrator (voice)
1999	The Seventh Scroll	Grant Schiller
1998	So Graham Norton	Self
1996	E! True Hollywood Story
1993	seaQuest DSV	Captain Nathan Bridger
1990	The Howard Stern Show	Self
1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host
1975	People's Choice Awards	Self
1974	NOVA	Narrator
1971	Cannon
1954	The Secret Storm
1953	The Oscars	Self
1951	Love of Life
1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Francesco Barberini