Roy Scheider
Audiences rate Roy Scheider’s films higher than 72% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
Free to watch now (26 Oct): All That Jazz (Fawesome) · Blue Thunder (YouTube, Roku Channel) · Klute (Plex, Tubi, Kanopy) · Marathon Man (Kanopy) · Romeo Is Bleeding (Plex, Tubi, Kanopy) · Still of the Night (Roku Channel, Tubi, Hoopla) and 2 more.
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The ThumbScore for Roy Scheider (74.3%) is the average audience approval rating across 18 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Roy's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Roy Richard Scheider (/ˈʃaɪdər/; November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, one Golden Globe, and one BAFTA. Scheider's best-known roles include Frank Ligourin in Klute (1971), Police Chief Martin Brody in Jaws (1975) and its 1978 sequel, "Cloudy" Russo in The French Connection (1971), "Buddy" in The Seven-Ups (1973), Doc Levy in Marathon Man (1976), Scanlon / Dominguez in Sorcerer (1977), Joe Gideon in All That Jazz (1979), Frank Murphy in Blue Thunder (1983), and Dr. Heywood Floyd in the 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984). Subsequent credits included Naked Lunch (1991), Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), The Myth of Fingerprints (1997), The Rainmaker (1997), and The Punisher (2004). He portrayed Captain Nathan Bridger on NBC's seaQuest DSV from 1993–1996.
Born 1932-11-10 in Orange, New Jersey, USA. Died 2008-02-10.
On ThumbScore, Roy Scheider appears in 18 films with an average audience score of 74.3%, most frequently in the Thriller genre.
Sources: TMDB
