Roy Scheider

• Birthplace: Orange, New Jersey
• Birthday: November 10, 1932

Oscar nominee Roy Scheider rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a string of soulful, streetwise supporting performances in hits like “Klute” (1971) and “The French Connection” (1971). He quickly graduated to leading man status on the strength of his turn as Amity police chief and reluctant shark hunter, Martin Brody, in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster “Jaws” (1975). Though he enjoyed a successful run in top-notch pictures like “Marathon Man” (1977), and showed impressive range as a pill-popping choreographer in B…more