Roy Scheider passes

[roddglenn]

A solid old school actor who had commercial and critical success in many roles including Blue Thunder, Marathon Man, The French Connection and most noteably Jaws.

RIP Chief Brody.

[Hekaterine]

He must have been a good age. Jaws was 30 (?) years ago and he didn't look like he was a spring chicken in that.

Great actor though.

[BiNS]

75 according to the report I read but I'd have thought he was a few years older than that. Perhaps he lied on his CV?

[roddglenn]

Aye, he'd had a good run. I forgot about his excellent performance in 2010 too (which I preferred to 2001).

[John Self]

I forgot about his excellent performance in 2010 too (which I preferred to 2001).

Woah, isn't that Cinematic Sacrilege? Not that I've seen 2010; I mean from a received-wisdom point of view. What's it like then?

[Noumenon]

2010 is like the book of the film book of 2001 the book. If you see what I mean.

[bill]

The Seven-Ups is a good cop movie Scheider made in the 70s. He was always good, and I'm pretty sad about his passing.

I don't remember 2010 very well, but isn't that the one with the line "My God...it's full of stars"?

[Noumenon]

It is. He was also in The Marathon Man - great film. And SeaQuest DSV... um...