Roy Richard Scheider is an American theater and film actor. He was nominated several times for the Oscar, also the winner of several nominations and awards in the field of cinema as the best actor, best actor of the musical genre and actor-legend.
Despite the fact that Roy did not plan to connect his life with cinema and everyone predicted him a good career as a lawyer, fate decreed otherwise. For his creative biography, he played in almost 60 films, and his roles in the films "All This Jazz" and "Jaws" became famous throughout the world and entered the "golden fund" of American cinema.
early years
Roy was born in New Jersey in the fall of 1932. His father was German by nationality and his mother was Irish. The family did not live well, my father worked in a car repair shop, and my mother ran a household. In early childhood, Roy was sick a lot and suffered a severe form of rheumatism. To maintain his health, he began to actively engage in sports - he played baseball and was fond of boxing. In sports, he excelled and even performed at numerous competitions and the boxing championship in New Jersey.
Roy received his education at Maplewood High School, then went to Newark to go to university, and then went to Lancaster to study law. Parents dreamed of a worthy career as a child and were very pleased that the young man entered the law faculty.
As a student, Roy became interested in theater and began performing on the university stage, but he still did not think about devoting himself to art all his life.
Career start and movie roles
In the late 1950s, Scheider served for four years in the U.S. Army, in a unit based in Korea, as an air traffic controller. After demobilization, he again decided to try himself as an actor and went to work in a theater studio. After the play "Romeo and Juliet", shown at the local festival, where Roy got one of the roles, his work was highly appreciated by the audience and the director and Scheider was finally included in the troupe of the theater.
Scheider’s first film work was the role in the film “The Curse of the Living Dead, ” but real success came to him after the film “Klyut”, where he played a central role together with famous actors D. Fonda and D. Sutherland. From that moment, Scheider’s career in cinema went up and he was offered new roles and interesting projects. So for the role in the detective film "French Connected", for which the actor was nominated for an Oscar.
A few years later Scheider meets with the famous director Steven Spielberg, who invites him to his picture "Jaws". Roy played the main role of a sheriff in her, who engages in an unequal battle with the cannibal shark. The film was a stunning success, and rental fees amounted to more than 450 million dollars. The film was recognized as one of the best in the genre of horror and received several Academy Award. A few years later, the picture was continued, and Roy again became the protagonist of "Jaws 2".
In the future career of the actor, many wonderful roles in various genres, but in a special place is the musical tape "All this Jazz", where Roy played the role of choreographer. The film was directed by the famous Bobb Foss, and Scheider was once again nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor.
In the 2000s, Scheider’s career began to decline, roles became less and less, but the actor himself was not too upset by this situation.
Roy Scheider passed away in 2008 in Little Rock. The cause of death was myeloma.
