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My Take
Roy Scheider is my favorite kind of leading man: the one who never seems to be acting. Whether anchoring a blockbuster or a gritty character piece, he played ordinary men with such lived-in credibility that the extraordinary events around them became believable. I love that he boxed in his youth — you can see it in his physical economy, the way he never wasted a gesture. Two Oscar nominations confirm what the work already tells you, but to me his real legacy is tonal: he proved that quiet, weathered competence could carry films that louder stars would have capsized. American cinema of the 1970s feels unthinkable without his face.
Overview
Roy Richard Scheider (; November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, one Golden Globe, and one BAFTA Award, and won both an Obie and Drama League Award for his stage performances.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Roy Scheider
- Name (Japanese)
- ロイ・シャイダー
- Reading
- ろい・しゃいだー
- Born
- November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Monkey
- Origin
- Orange, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 175 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / boxer / voice actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Columbia High School
- University
- Rutgers University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.