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 ...
An amateur boxer — classed as a welterweight, weighing in at 140 pounds — from Orange, New Jersey, Roy Richard Scheider became a distinguished Hollywood actor after his time in the ring. He competed ...
Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee who was best known for his role as the police chief in “Jaws,” died Feb. 10 of undisclosed causes at the U. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little ...