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Roy Scheider : biography

November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008

Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor. He was best known for his leading role as Police Chief Martin C. Brody in the first two Jaws movies, choreographer and film director Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo in The French Connection, and Captain Nathan Bridger in the science fiction television series seaQuest DSV. Scheider’s final performance was posthumously released in the 2011 thriller Iron Cross. Described by Allmovie as "one of the most unique and distinguished of all Hollywood actors", Scheider was nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.

Personal life

Scheider’s first marriage was to Cynthia Bebout on November 8, 1962. The couple had one daughter, Maximillia, before divorcing in 1989. On February 11, 1989, he married actress Brenda King, with whom he had a son, Christian, and adopted a daughter, Molly. They remained married until his death.

Filmography

Early life

Scheider was born in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Anna Scheider (née Crosson) and auto mechanic Roy Bernhard Scheider. Scheider’s mother was of Irish Catholic background and his father was German American and Protestant. As a child, Scheider was an athlete, participating in organized baseball and boxing competitions, for which he was classed as a welterweight, weighing in at 140 lbs. Scheider competed in the Golden Gloves. 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.On TV, Scheider played running roles on two CBS soap operas, Love of Life and The Secret Storm, and also played character roles in episodes of Coronet Blue and N.Y.P.D..

Amateur boxing

Between 1947 and 1953and, in one match in 1958Scheider boxed as an amateur based in his hometown in New Jersey.http://www.boxing-scoop.com/show_boxer.php?boxer_ID=12096 In his first bout, at the 1947 Golden Gloves, he suffered a broken nose and lost by technical knockout in two rounds to Myron Greenberg. He went on, however, to post a 14-1 (10 knockouts) record, reversing the defeat to Greenberg in the process.

Amateur boxing record: Roy Scheider
Result Record Opponent Method Date Round Time Event Location Notes
style="text-align:center;" Win 14–1 Ted LaScalza KO 1958 1
style="text-align:center;" Win Nick Welling KO 1953, July 20 2
style="text-align:center;" Win Earl Garrett KO 1950 1 Golden Gloves New Jersey Scheider suffers nose injury;drops out of tournament.
style="text-align:center;" Win Peter Read KO 1950 3 New Jersey
style="text-align:center;" Win Phillip Duncan KO 1950, Feb 17 1 Orange, New Jersey
style="text-align:center;" Win Myron Greenberg KO 1950 1 New Jersey
style="text-align:center;" Win Peter Read KO 1948, Feb 21 2 Golden Gloves New Jersey
style="text-align:center;" Win Jerry Gould KO 1948 1 0:33 Golden Gloves New Jersey
style="text-align:center;" Win Alfonse D’Amore KO 1948 1 0:16 Golden Gloves New Jersey
style="text-align:center;" Loss 0–1 Myron Greenberg TKO 1947, Mar 05 2 Golden Gloves New Jersey Scheider’s nose is broken.