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Roy Scheider ‘JAWS’ Passes Away
Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee, died on Sunday. He was best known for his role as the police chief in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, Jaws, the enduring classic about a killer shark terrorising beachgoers. And that film won him millions of fans.
The New York Times‘s obit: “Besides his wife, his survivors include three children, Christian Verrier Scheider and Molly Mae Scheider, with Ms. Seimer, and Maximillia Connelly Lord, from an earlier marriage, to Cynthia Bebout; a brother, Glenn Scheider of Summit, N.J.; and two grandchildren.
“His professional debut was as Mercutio in a 1961 New York Shakespeare Festival production of ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ While continuing to work onstage, he made his movie debut in ‘The Curse of the Living Corpse’ (1964), a low-budget horror film by the prolific schlockmeister Del Tenney. ‘He had to bend his knees to die into a moat full of quicksand up in Connecticut,’ recalled Ms. Seimer, a documentary filmmaker. ‘He loved to demonstrate that’.”
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I am sad. – French Connection, All that Jazz.
My mom sent me a great memory about All That Jazz to add to my own.
He had Multiple Myeloma.
This quote is from a myeloma email group, “I noticed that the reports said that Roy Scheider died of a Staph infection so I did a quick search on Myeloma and infection and was surprised to read in this research http://tinyurl.com/2ww4rq that “infection is the leading cause of death in Myeloma patients”.”
Beth's Myeloma Blog tells of her experiences with Multiple Myeloma and links to other pages with information about this disease. http://www.myelomablog.com/
Most of the articles on his passing refer to Jaws but I always picture him in the scenes in front of the bathroom mirror in All That Jazz.
Here's a link to a question and answer video by the Institute for Myeloma and Bone Cancer Research. Dr. James Berenson is speaking. http://www.imbcr.org/myeloma_QA.html
ROY SCHEIDER’S FINAL FILM “IRON CROSS” – TRAILER & UPDATE MAY 2009
Calibra Pictures is pleased to announce the release of the trailer for Roy Scheider’s last film “Iron Cross”.
The revenge thriller, written and directed by Joshua Newton, will be previewed towards the end of the year in Los Angeles, following our Roy Scheider Film Week, dates and location tbc.
The trailer can be downloaded securely from the following yousendit.com link:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/674374016/2c8d2c044a…
We’d be delighted to receive your comments.
Yours truly
The Iron Cross Team
ironcross@calibrapictures.com