Monday, February 11, 2008

"Jaws" star Roy Scheider dies at 75

Roy Scheider in "Jaws"1975
Recent photo of Scheider

Actor Roy Scheider died of undisclosed causes Sunday in a Little Rock,Arkansas hospital at the age of 75.Best known for his role as Chief Martin Brody in Jaws and Jaws 2,he had been treated at the hospitals Myeloma Clinic for the past two years.He also played opposite Gene Hackman in "The French Connection" and had a Tv series,Seaquest DSV.His trademark lines in the Jaws movies were" you're gonna need a bigger boat" and "Smile,you son of a bitch!"Jaws was the first movie to break 100k at the box office and kept an entire generation of nervous kids out of the water!

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