Roy Scheider dies at 75

[John]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080211/ap_en_ce/obit_scheider;_ylt=AqVwZhbggdXA1ljwTjYSGjZxFb8C

Jaws remains one of my five favorite films.

RIP.

 

[forever_town]

Good actor.

RIP.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

RIP.

"Slow ahead, I can go slow ahead. Come on down and chum some of this **** . . ."

 

[BigSleeper]

I take it this wasn't a boating accident.

Sorry. RIP, Brody

 

[chester]

Heaven's going to need a bigger boat, I guess.

RIP.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Damn.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Heaven's going to need a bigger boat, I guess.

RIP.

Damn, you beat me to it.

 

[Rosie]

RIP.

Weird, earlier today the Discovery Channel ran the Mythbusters Shark Week two-hour special. The one where they test 'myths' from the movie Jaws.

 

[ColbertNation]

Coincidence. I was just watching 2010 the other day. I always liked him.

 

[John]

I believe he recently did an episode of Family Guy in which he's hosting an instructional video on how to take a ****.

 

[Italian_Stallion]

He was great as Dr. Benway.

 

[slappy4428]

Coincidence. I was just watching Tigertown the other day. I always liked him.

 

[markvid]

I can't believe he was that old, for some reason.

 

[slappy4428]

It's showtime.

 

[John]

I hope he's swimmin' with bow-legged women in heaven.

 

[DanOregon]

One of the great underrated actors of all time. Nobody ever said, let's go check out the new Roy Scheider film, but damn has he been in a ton of great ones.

Catch ya later.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

The scene in Jaws where he has been fired and is cheered up by his young "son"'s mimicry of him is one of the great "little" scenes in movies.

I found this part of the obit interesting:

Dreyfuss recalled Sunday a time during the filming of 'Jaws' when Scheider disappeared from the set. As the filming was on hold because of the weather, Scheider "called me up and said, 'You don't know where I am if they call.'

"He'd gone to get a tan. He was really very tan-addicted. That was due to a childhood affliction where he was in bed for a long time. For him being tan was being healthy," Dreyfuss said.

I always though his face looked ridiculously "leathery" at a relatively young age.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

RIP.

 

[DanOregon]

just to be clear multiple myloma is a cancer of the blood.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

I guess if you think about it it makes sense, but I didn't realize he was that old.