Roy Scheider is a Actor American born on 10 november 1932 at Orange (USA)
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider participated to
61 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
9 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actor
, 2h4
Directed by Steven SpielbergOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Adventure,
HorrorThemes Films about animals,
Films about children,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Films about sharks,
Natural horror films,
Mise en scène d'un poisson,
Giant monster filmsActors Roy Scheider,
Robert Shaw,
Richard Dreyfuss,
Lorraine Gary,
Murray Hamilton,
Susan BacklinieRoles Police Chief Martin Brody
Rating80%
While a group of teenagers are having an evening beach party on Amity Island, Chrissie Watkins (Susan Backlinie) goes skinny dipping in the ocean. Something violently grabs and pulls her underwater. In the morning, Deputy Hendricks (Jeffrey Kramer) finds her remains on the beach. Upon hearing from the medical examiner that the cause of death was a possible shark attack, Police Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) proceeds to close the beaches, but Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) overrules him, fearing news of a shark attack will ruin the summer tourist season, the town's primary revenue source. He rationalizes that there have been no prior shark problems in the area, and theorizes the girl was killed in a boating accident. The coroner concurs and Brody reluctantly accepts their conclusion., 1h56
Directed by Jeannot SzwarcOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
HorrorThemes Films about animals,
Films about children,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Films about sharks,
Natural horror films,
Mise en scène d'un poissonActors Roy Scheider,
Lorraine Gary,
Murray Hamilton,
Joseph Mascolo,
Jeffrey Kramer,
Barry CoeRoles Police Chief Martin Brody
Rating58%
Prior to a new hotel opening on Amity Island, a huge great white shark ambushes two divers who are photographing the wreck of the Orca, the late Quint's boat. A few days later, the shark devours a water skier. The speedboat driver defends herself by dumping gasoline on the shark (accidentally spilling some on herself) and shooting it with a flare gun, causing the boat to explode. The shark escapes but is severely scarred., 2h4
Directed by Jonathan HensleighOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Punisher films,
Superhero films,
Super-héros inspiré de comics,
Gangster filmsActors Thomas Jane,
John Travolta,
Will Patton,
Roy Scheider,
Laura Harring,
Ben FosterRoles Frank Castle, Sr.
Rating63%
When Bobby Saint (James Carpinello) and Mickey Duka (Eddie Jemison) meet with European arms dealer Otto Krieg at the Tampa, Florida seaport, the FBI intervenes and Saint is killed while Duka is jailed. "Krieg", supposedly killed in the shootout, is actually undercover FBI agent and former U.S. Army Delta Force operator Frank Castle (Thomas Jane). Shortly thereafter, he retires from the FBI and attends a family reunion at his father's (Roy Scheider) oceanside home in Aguadilla Bay, Puerto Rico. Tampa crime boss Howard Saint (John Travolta) is enraged by the death of his son, and with right-hand man Quentin Glass (Will Patton) bribes the FBI for confidential information about "Krieg". Saint orders Castle murdered, and Saint's wife, Livia (Laura Harring), demands Castle's entire family be killed as well to "settle the score., 1h49
Directed by John BadhamOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Transport films,
Aviation filmsActors Roy Scheider,
Malcolm McDowell,
Warren Oates,
Candy Clark,
Daniel Stern,
Joe SantosRoles Murphy
Rating63%
Francis McNeil "Frank" Murphy (Roy Scheider) is a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) helicopter-pilot-officer and troubled Vietnam War veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). His newly assigned field partner is Richard Lymangood (Daniel Stern). The two patrol Los Angeles at night and give assistance to police forces on the ground., 1h44
Directed by William FriedkinOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Mafia films,
Medical-themed films,
La provence,
Films about drugs,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Rail transport films,
Road movies,
Chase films,
Gangster filmsActors Gene Hackman,
Fernando Rey,
Roy Scheider,
Tony Lo Bianco,
Marcel Bozzuffi,
Frédéric de PasqualeRoles Buddy Russo
Rating76%
In Marseille, an undercover detective is following Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey), a wealthy French criminal who runs the largest heroin-smuggling syndicate in the world. The policeman is assassinated by Charnier's hitman, Pierre Nicoli (Marcel Bozzuffi). Charnier plans to smuggle $32 million worth of heroin into the United States by hiding it in the car of his unsuspecting friend, French television personality Henri Devereaux (Frédéric de Pasquale)., 1h56
Directed by Peter HyamsOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Thriller,
AdventureThemes Space adventure films,
Films about computing,
La préhistoire,
Dans l'espace,
Sur la Lune,
Films based on science fiction novels,
Films set in the future,
Space opera,
Sur la LuneActors Roy Scheider,
John Lithgow,
Helen Mirren,
Bob Balaban,
Keir Dullea,
Douglas RainRoles Dr. Heywood Floyd
Rating66%
After the mysterious failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter in 2001, which resulted in the deaths of four astronauts and the disappearance of David Bowman, the fiasco was blamed on Dr. Heywood Floyd, who resigned his position as head of the National Council for Astronautics. While an international dispute causes tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, both nations prepare space missions to determine what happened to the Discovery. Although the Soviet ship, the Leonov, will be ready before the American spacecraft Discovery Two, the Soviets need American astronauts to help board the Discovery and investigate the malfunction of the ship's sentient computer, HAL 9000, which caused the disaster. The US government agrees to a joint mission when it is determined that Discovery will crash into Jupiter's moon Io before Discovery Two is ready. Floyd, along with Discovery designer Walter Curnow and HAL 9000's creator Dr. Chandra, joins the Soviet mission., 2h
Directed by Bob FosseOrigin USAGenres Drama,
MusicalThemes Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about religion,
Films about angels,
Musical films,
Children's filmsActors Roy Scheider,
Jessica Lange,
Leland Palmer,
Ann Reinking,
Max Wright,
Gwen VerdonRoles Joe Gideon
Rating77%
Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer trying to balance work on his latest Broadway musical with editing a Hollywood film he has directed. He is a workaholic who chain-smokes cigarettes, and without a daily dose of Vivaldi, Visine, Alka-Seltzer, Dexedrine, and sex, he wouldn't have the energy to keep up the biggest "show" of all — his life. His girlfriend Katie Jagger, his ex-wife Audrey Paris, and daughter Michelle try to pull him back from the brink, but it is too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. In his imagination, he flirts with an angel of death named Angelique., 2h5
Directed by John SchlesingerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Spy,
CrimeThemes Spy films,
Medical-themed films,
Films about religion,
Films about Jews and JudaismActors Dustin Hoffman,
Laurence Olivier,
Roy Scheider,
William Devane,
Marthe Keller,
Richard BrightRoles Doc
Rating73%
Thomas "Babe" Levy (Dustin Hoffman) is a history Ph.D. candidate and avid runner. Levy is researching the same field as his father, who committed suicide after the Communist witch hunts of the Joseph McCarthy era ruined his reputation. Babe's brother Henry (Roy Scheider), known as "Doc", presents himself as an oil company executive but is really a government agent, involved in an elaborate network of couriers who transport diamonds stolen during World War II from wealthy Jews seeking to flee Germany, which are then sold on world markets for the secret benefit of fugitive Nazi war criminal Dr. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier). Szell, a dentist who tortured Jews in a concentration camp, escaped capture and is now living off the diamond sales as a fugitive in South America (echoing real life Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele)., 1h54
Directed by Alan J. PakulaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Jane Fonda,
Donald Sutherland,
Charles Cioffi,
Roy Scheider,
Rita Gam,
Nathan GeorgeRoles Frank Ligourin
Rating70%
The film begins with the disappearance of Pennsylvania executive Tom Gruneman (played by Robert Milli). The police reveal that an obscene letter was found in Gruneman's office, addressed to a prostitute in New York City named Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda), who had received several similar letters from him. After six months of fruitless police work, Peter Cable (Charles Cioffi), an executive at Gruneman's company, hires family friend and detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) to investigate Gruneman's disappearance.