Roy Scheider, R.I.P.

Goddammit. That's just wrong. RIP Roy, you were one of the greatest.

fucking Sorcerer.

French Connection.

:-(

"darwin! love! bridger!"

Jaws everyone knows, but he's wonderful in All About Jazz (and sexy in black skintight jeans and beatnik goatee). A nicely weird Dr. Benway in Cronenberg's Naked Lunch too.

seriously though, my favorite scheider movie is "the seven-ups". so good.

alfred OTM

i'm gonna miss his eternally weathered face. Pretty boys today could learn a thing or too.

Also the only good thing in the 2001 sequel.

Completely forgot about the 2010 role. Agreed, it was the standout of that film.

oh this sucks:-( RIP.

RIP. I've liked every movie I've seen that he was in, whether or not he was the reason I liked it, and he usually was. (TV, specifically Seaquest, let's not go there.)

Also Blue Thunder. Not a great movie, but he sets the right tone for the lead in a mix of 70s conspiracy paranoia film and 80s action-packed blockbuster

He had a talent for committing himself to a project and looking like his mind was somewhere else, like reading What Maisie Knew at the Jockey Club.

Alfred, true. I bet that's why he was such a hot property in the 70s, strong male lead whose distraction was taken as being tormented by doubt and ambivalence

ur gonna need a bigger casket =(

RIP Big Man

Heaven needed someone to captain the SeaQuest DSV

Liked him a lot in Jaws and especially All That Jazz. And he did a really great spot on Law & Order just last year.

also excellent in 'marathon man' and '52 pick-up'

phew! misread this as "Rob Schneider" for a sec!

seriously though, my favorite scheider movie is "the seven-ups". so good.

Unbelievably OTM.

Really bummed about about this

He told the worst joke in an SNL monologue. He was at a knicks game and saw so many turnovers, he thought he was at Pepperidge Farms!

Even he knew the joke was horrible which actually made it funny.

i thought "american gangster" ripped off "the seven-ups" in a lot of ways, even moreso than, say "serpico" or "french connection". i know a lot of people here didn't like "american gangster" but there you go.

Wow, I just read the article. Roy passed away about ten minutes away from me.

this dude was cool.

One of the most underrated famous actors of our time, no?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hg4QtYizPKM

he plays a totally badass hitman in this movie, seek it out

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hybS0lKmeAY

Scheider was also politically active. He participated in rallies protesting U.S. military action in Iraq, including a massive New York demonstration in March 2003 that police said drew 125,000 chanting activists.

this at the age of 71.

A truly great actor who, in all his many roles, never jumped the shark.

Dreyfuss recalled Sunday a time during the filming of 'Jaws' when Scheider disappeared from the set. As the filming was on hold because of the weather, Scheider "called me up and said, 'You don't know where I am if they call.'

"He'd gone to get a tan. He was really very tan-addicted. That was due to a childhood affliction where he was in bed for a long time. For him being tan was being healthy," Dreyfuss said.

me too on loving the seven-ups and french connection, but this guy was a class act in everything he did.

rip.

am0n first with the obvious zing altho i would've gone with heaven over casket

RIP big time

watched Jaws2 last night, a worthy sequel imho.

sad eyes

PEACE OUT DAWG. NOW GOD HAZ GOT A NU SOLDIER IN HEAVEN. I WAS YOR BOI EVEN THOUGH SEAQUEST WAS NANG. KEEPIN YOU ALIVE INOUR HEARTZ. HOLLLLAAA AT YA. ROY SCHEIDER RIP

okay

Heaven's gonna need a bigger boat.

bye bye his life goodbye.

;_; he had something about him that marked him out.

A truly great actor who, in all his many roles, never jumped the shark.

-- James Mitchell, Monday, February 11, 2008 12:55 AM (Monday, February 11, 2008 12:55 AM) Bookmark Link

Groan

ah that Spongebob movie trailer was his real apex

http://cinedestin.privatedns.com/seriesam/seaquest/seaquest3.jpg

::sigh::

dolphin is only one still alive?

bye bye his life goodbye.

he's very funny on his All That Jazz DVD commentary, quoting Fosse saying casually of all the wives, mistresses and friends he's fucked with, "They all forgive me."

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/KellyScheider_3_10_08.jpg

waht

Shakey Mo Kellyier

usually totally <3 <3 <3 those but i don't even get what that is satirizing

the east coast hollywood liberal elite

and pop corn eaters

Too lazy to check, but I have it in my mind that Kael kind of liked Still of the Night, Robert Benton's Hitchcock imitation from the early '80s with Scheider and Meryl Streep. I watched it off Kanopy the other night--every bit as ponderous as it seemed at the time.

I thought she used the review as another attempt to attack Streep's hair.

It's a moderately negative review with a few highlights mentioned, plus hair description. Pretty boring review of what sounds like a boring movie.

I must have been remembering the review as better than I expected after she dismissed Kramer--low bar. It's a very boring movie.

(Meaning low bar for Kael--I like Kramer a lot.)