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Heaven's Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: Roy Scheider Dies

Roy Scheider, the square-jawed, broken-nosed guy's guy in whose capable hands Amity Island residents and vacationers entrusted their lives, passed away yesterday in Little Rock at age 75, after a three-year fight with blood cancer. While he will forever be associated with Chief Brody, a man with a good sense for shark-hunting seafaring-vessel sizes, it was his tour-de-force song-and-dance turn in All That Jazz, playing a loose version of director Bob Fosse, that was his most accomplished and most personally favored role. If it weren't for that movie's bleak showstopper finale (above), we might never have even associated something as fleeting as mortality with someone as ruggedly substantial as Scheider. But, hey—if you gotta go, at least give 'em the old razzle dazzle on your way out. More »

11:00 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Seth
2,560 views, 18 comments

Latest by Oldboy: 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 more »