Jaws star Roy Scheider died on Sunday (10.02.08) after losing his cancer battle.
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The two-time Oscar nominee – who had been suffering from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells, for the last two years – died in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, aged 75.
Scheider’s second wife Brenda Seimer said the actor had died as a result of complications arising from a staph skin infection.
Scheider made his acting debut in a New York theatre production of Romeo and Juliet in 1961, and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in The French Connection in 1971.
His most famous role came in 1975 when he played Police Chief Martin Brody in Steven Spielberg’s terrifying shark thriller Jaws. He reprised the role in 1978 for Jaws 2.
In 1979 he was nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his performance in All That Jazz. Shortly before his death, he had just finished filming Iron Cross, in which he plays a retired New York policeman who seeks revenge for his family who were massacred in Poland in 1941.
Scheider is survived by his wife, three children, Maximillia, Molly and Christian, and two grandchildren.
