Roy Scheider Net Worth is
$900,000

Mini Biography

Slim, angular-faced and authoritatively spoken lead / helping acting professional Roy Scheider certainly never heard the aged actor’s axiom about “never showing up with children or pets” lest they overshadow your overall performance. Breaking that guideline do him no damage, though, as he accomplished pop cult position by getting, fighting and blowing up a 25-foot-long Great White colored shark (nicknamed “Bruce”) in the mega-hit Jaws (1975) and electrocuting a straight bigger Great White colored in the greatly substandard Jaws 2 (1978). Athletic Scheider was created in November 1932 in Orange, NJ, to Anna (Crosson) and Roy Bernhard Scheider, a mechanic. He was of German and Irish descent. An enthusiastic sportsman from a age group, he competed in football and boxing (his awkwardly mended damaged nose is because his foray into Golden Gloves contests). While at university, his pursuits flipped from sports activities to theatre and he analyzed theatre at Rutgers and Franklin and Marshall. After a stint in the armed service, Scheider made an appearance with the brand new York Shakespeare Celebration and gained an “Obie Prize” for his appearance in the play “Stephen D.” His film job commenced using the campy Z-grade horror cheesefest The Curse from the Living Corpse (1964), and then arrived in Superstar! (1968), Paper Lion (1968), Stiletto (1969) and Puzzle of the Downfall Kid (1970). In 1971 he actually came to the interest of film viewers with his function in the Jane Fonda thriller Klute (1971) and as Det. Pal Russo (credit scoring his initial Oscar nomination) alongside fiery Gene Hackman in the criminal offense dilemma The French Connection (1971). His functionality as a hardcore street cop for the reason that film led him into another challenging cop function as NYC Det. Pal Manucci in the underappreciated The Seven-Ups (1973), which features one of the better car run after sequences ever placed on film. In the first 1970s the Peter Benchley novel “Jaws” was a phenomenal best-seller, and young director Steven Spielberg was chosen by Universal Pictures to direct the film adaptation, Jaws (1975), where Scheider played law enforcement chief Brody and shared lead billing with Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss in the tale of a fresh Britain seaside community terrorized with a hungry Great White shark. “Jaws” was a blockbuster, and for quite some time kept the record as the highest-grossing film ever. Scheider then resulted in as the shady CIA agent sibling of Dustin Hoffman in the unnerving Marathon Man (1976) and in the misfired William Friedkin-directed remake from the Wages of Dread (1953) entitled Sorcerer (1977), before once again time for Amity to fight another huge shark in Jaws 2 (1978). Looking for a differ from difficult cops and starving sharks, he required the part of womanizing, drug-popping choreographer Joe Gideon, the business lead character from the semi-autobiographical portrayal of movie director Bob Fosse in the dazzling EVERYTHING Jazz (1979). It had been another big strike for Scheider (and another Oscar nomination), using the film having a spectacular opening sequence towards the tune from the cool George Benson amount “On Broadway”, and breathtaking dance routines like the “Airotica” functionality with the gorgeous Sandahl Bergman. Time for another police role, Scheider performed a rebellious helicopter pilot in the John Badham conspiracy / actions film Blue Thunder (1983), a scientist in the sequel to 2001: AN AREA Odyssey (1968) simply titled 2010 (1984), a cheating hubby who transforms the desks on his blackmailers in 52 Pick-Up (1986), a cold-blooded strike guy in Cohen and Tate (1988) and a CIA operative in the muddled and slow-moving The Russia Home (1990). The flexible Scheider was after that cast as the captain of the futuristic submarine in the fairly popular Television series SeaQuest 2032 (1993), which went for three periods. Inexplicably, nevertheless, Scheider had apparently, and slowly, fell out of favour with mainstream film viewers, even though he continued to stay busy, mostly in supporting assignments (generally mainly because US presidents or armed service officers), a lot of the automobiles he made an appearance in had been B-grade political thrillers like the Peacekeeper (1997), Executive Focus on (1997), Chain of Control (2000) and Crimson Serpent (2003).

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Roy Scheider
Date Of Birth	November 10, 1932
Died	February 10, 2008, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Height	1.75 m
Profession	Actor
Education	Franklin & Marshall College, Rutgers University, Columbia High School
Nationality	American
Spouse	Brenda Siemer Scheider (m. 1989–2008), Cynthia Schneider (m. 1962–1986)
Children	Christian Scheider, Maximillia Connelly Lord, Molly Mae Scheider
Parents	Roy Bernhard Scheider, Anna Scheider
Siblings	Glenn Scheider
Awards	Obie Award for Performance, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Multiple Camera Editing
Nominations	Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Movies	Jaws, The French Connection, Jaws 2, All That Jazz, Blue Thunder, Sorcerer, The Seven-Ups, Klute, Still of the Night, The Russia House, 2010, Marathon Man, 52 Pick-Up, Last Embrace, Cohen and Tate, The Curse of the Living Corpse, The Punisher, Naked Lunch, The Fourth War, Romeo is Bleeding, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, The Outside Man, The Rainmaker, Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York, Paper Lion, The Myth of Fingerprints, Executive Target, Dracula II: Ascension, The Peacekeeper, Night Game, The Men's Club, Citizen Verdict, Listen to Me, Tiger Town, Red Serpent, Dark Honeymoon, Iron Cross, Chicago 10, Diamond Hunters, The White Raven, King of Texas, Plato's Run, RKO 281, Dracula III: Legacy, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Somebody has to Shoot the Picture, Evasive Action, The Rage, Angels Don't Sleep Here, The Doorway, Better Living
TV Shows	seaQuest DSV, Love of Life, The Secret Storm, Race to Save the Planet