RIP Roy Scheider

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kayrharris · #1 Post by **kayrharris** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:47 pm

"You're gonna need a bigger boat"...definitely one of the better known quotes from movies. Age 75.

traininvain · #2 Post by **traininvain** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:17 pm

Very sad, he was a wonderful actor.

thguy65 · #3 Post by **thguy65** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:09 pm

I can envision his final moments being like the scenes from "All That Jazz" where his character goes to the great beyond.

silverscreenselect · #4 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:12 pm

I especially liked him in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. Unfortunately for Scheider, after he did the sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey in 1984, his career essentially fizzled out. It's a shame.

NellyLunatic1980 · #5 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:59 am

Scheider is the second cast member of NBC's "SeaQuest DSV" to pass away in the last year. Jonathan Brandis died last year from an apparent suicide.

RIP, Roy.

silverscreenselect · #6 Post by **silverscreenselect** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:40 am

Very creepy bizarre coincidence.

I was talking with a co-worker on Friday on a different subject and happened to mention Sorcerer, which was a very underrated film Scheider did in the 1970's, a remake of the French classic The Wages of Fear.

The discussion actually came about when we were talking about foreign literature and I mentioned that I had read the book version of Wages of Fear in high school (in French) as part of a French assignment. Essentially everyone else was picking classy stuff and I picked the hardboiled pulp novel to read. Then I mentioned that it was made into a movie remade as a Scheider film.

Scheider had a good everyday average guy quality to him which served him well as Chief Brody in Jaws. Another guilty pleasure he appeared in that I watch any chance I can is Blue Thunder, with some great helicopter chase footage. The last half hour of the movie has a lot of good effects and stunt work, none of it computerized as it would be today.