It was a shit movie, but I always loved his performance in 2010. (Maybe it was from a desire to have pet dolphins as a kid.)

Hard to believe he was that old.

I would like to think that Ben Vereen and the Slim Goodbody Bib Fortuna dancing girls were there in Arkansas when Roy actually passed on.

he was brilliant in The French Connection too.

Great actor. Rest in peace, Roy.

I think one of his best lines in a movie was this powerful line in Jaws 2, because you knew what the guy had gone through in the first movie:

But I'm telling you, and I'm telling everybody at this table that that's a shark! And I know what a shark looks like, because I've seen one up close. And you'd better do something about this one, because I don't intend to go through that hell again!

@Sweet Panda Love: Me too. What a great sendoff using this clip...

R.I.P.

Thanks for playing that ending for a very strange movie (Fosse glamorizes his tragic death, Broadway style!). I'll best remember him as the badass who told a sonafabitch shark to smile.

I have had a crush on him since I was a young girl. I am not sure what that says about me. But he was great in every way.

No one has mentioned Blue Thunder. He was just as good in the air as he was in the sea. I'll miss him.

Is it safe, Roy?
Yes--yes, it is.

Great actor. Didn't think I could love this beautiful man any more, until I read in an interview with him once that his first big break was playing a transvestite nun off off Broadway, and that he was mainly into experimental theatre back then. Can't imagine what charisma he must have had on stage, because it burned like hell on film. On Seaquest, I always thought he was smirking at the thought :"From transvestite nuns to this". Who gives face like this any more?

Go watch John Frankenheimer's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 52 Pick-Up if you want to see Roy shine. What an actor. The world just got a little emptier today.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Roy about 10 years ago. I told him I lost a boyfriend over "Naked Lunch". He was very sorry. I asked him about how he thought he'd be remembered and he said "Do I think Chief Brody is going to be stamped on my tombstone..yes". I asked him how he felt about that and he said "Terrible." He loved "All that Jazz". Thanks for posting.

He was a badass in The Seven-Ups, a personal favorite.

:(

R.I.P. RS

It's only an island if you look at it from the water.

@Trixie from Toronto: Ditto. And he looked great in shorts.

Rent "Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York" if you can find it.

All That Jazz is a wonderful film. I particularly love the dance number with Erszebet Foldi to the tune of "Everything Old Is New Again." Also his clever turn in "The Russia House."("Honor is due,Ned!")

Scheider was a first-rate actor. Honor is due, indeed.