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Roy Scheider

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    • Steven Spielberg
      In Steven Spielberg: Commercial success

      It featured Roy Scheider as the police chief of a resort town who battles a man-eating white shark. Joining him are Richard Dreyfuss as a marine biologist and Robert Shaw as a shark hunter. The highly praised thriller received an Academy Award nomination for best picture, and…

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role in

    • “Jaws”
      • Jaws
        In Jaws: Summary

        …police chief, Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), orders the beaches closed. Fearing the news will damage the summer tourism economy, Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) pressures the coroner to change the cause of death to a boating accident and persuades Brody to keep the beaches open. When another swimmer is killed,…

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    • “The French Connection”
      • Gene Hackman in The French Connection
        In The French Connection

        …partner, Buddy (“Cloudy”) Russo (Roy Scheider), roust a small-time drug dealer from a bar and beat him up, trying to get him to name his supplier. After work, the two detectives go to a bar, where they notice a free-spending man, Sal Boca (Tony Lo Bianco), and, on a…

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