An amateur boxer — classed as a welterweight, weighing in at 140 pounds — from Orange, New Jersey, Roy Richard Scheider became a distinguished Hollywood actor after his time in the ring. He ...

Roy Scheider turned down a role in the Best Picture-winning The Deer Hunter, which led him to return as Chief Brody in Jaws 2.

Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 12 July) is Jaws 2, the sequel to Steven Spielberg's legendary shark thriller Jaws.

In addition to Roy Scheider (best known as "Brody" in Jaws), the film also stars Scott Cohen, Sarah Bolger, Helmut Berger, and Alexander Newton, who plays the young Joseph.

In 2000, the Cape Cod Times interviewed charter boat captain Charlie Blair, who took the "Jaws" film crew to movie locations off Martha's Vineyard.

September is the first time Roy Scheider has been seen widely on the big screen in decades, creating a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see two Roy Scheider movies on the big screen in unison ...

Playing opposite Robert Shaw's deranged seaman and Richard Dreyfuss' excitable scientist, Mr. Scheider's realistic performance anchored the horror thriller in a humane reality.

Josh Tyson (Roy Scheider), Timothy W. Hull (Robert Shaw), and Jonathan Randell Silver (Richard Dreyfuss) make the most of their down time in "The Shark is Broken" at North Shore Music Theatre.