Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An amateur boxer — classed as a welterweight, weighing in at 140 pounds — from Orange, New Jersey, Roy Richard Scheider became a ...

Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. One of the most recurring images in cinematic pop culture ...

André Joseph is a movie features writer at Collider. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor's Degree in Film. He freelances as an independent filmmaker, ...

Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw led a cast rounded out by Martha's Vineyard locals. Director Steven Spielberg and author Peter Benchley both expressed regret over how the film ...

From throwing himself into demanding movie roles to joining thousands protesting U.S. involvement in foreign wars, Roy ...

Roy Scheider, 75, the jagged-nosed actor who brought complexity to tough-guy roles in such films as "The French Connection," "Jaws" and "All That Jazz," and was also known for political activism off ...

A likeable character actor whose everyday-guy brand of toughness made him a stand-out in '70s blockbusters like Jaws and The French Connection, Roy Scheider died Sunday at age 75. A cause of death ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Roy Scheider, a one-time boxer whose broken nose and pugnacious acting style made him a star in "The French Connection" and who later uttered one of cinematic history's most ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his roles as a small-town police chief in "Jaws" and his portrait of famed choreographer Bob Fosse in "All That Jazz ...

A long-evolving showdown between New York police officer John "Sully" Sullivan and Russian gangster Chevchenko plays out Oct. 28 in a two-hour edition of Third Watch (8 p.m., NBC/Channel 2). That ...

US actor Roy Scheider, best known for playing the police chief in the Jaws movies, has died at the age of 75. As well as starring in the first two shark thrillers, Scheider received two Oscar ...