[Deathwatch] Roy Scheider, actor, 75

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'Jaws' actor Roy Scheider dies
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- Roy Scheider, the actor best known for
his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died.
He was 75.

 Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson
said. The hospital did not release a cause of death.

However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been
treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for
Research and Therapy for the past two years.

Scheider received two Oscar nominations, for best-supporting actor in
1971's "The French Connection" in which he played the police partner of
Oscar winner Gene Hackman, and for best-actor for 1979's "All That
Jazz," the autobiographical Bob Fosse film.

However, he was best known for his role in Steven Spielberg's1975 film,
"Jaws," the enduring classic about a killer shark terrorizing
beachgoers and well as millions of moviegoers.

Widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood
blockbuster, it was also the first movie to earn $100 million at the
box office. Scheider starred with Richard Dreyfuss, who played an
oceanographer.

In 2005, one of Scheider's most famous lines in the movie -- "You're
gonna need a bigger boat" -- was voted No. 35 on the American Film
Institute's list of best quotes from U.S. movies.

That year, some 30 years after "Jaws" premiered, hundreds of movie
buffs flocked to Martha's Vineyard, off the southeastern coast of
Massachusetts, to celebrate the great white shark.

The island's JawsFest '05 also brought back some of the cast and crew,
including screenwriter Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley, who wrote the
novel that inspired Spielberg's classic. Spielberg, Scheider and
Dreyfuss were absent.

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.

Many thanks to TheLenGuy for posting this obituary