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 ...

“Beautiful Blue Eyes,” the last film starring Roy Scheider, will release worldwide on Sept. 9. ... In flashbacks, young Joseph (Newton), who has a romance with a young woman ...

Ian Shaw told UPI his new Broadway show, "The Shark is Broken," is intended to honor his late father, Robert Shaw, and his co-stars Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss from the classic 1975 movie ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Roy Scheider, a one-time boxer whose broken nose and pugnacious acting style made him a star in "The French Connection" and who later uttered one of cinematic history's ...

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.

Scheider earned two Academy Award nominations — a best-supporting nod for 1971's "The French Connection" in which he played the police partner of Oscar winner Gene Hackman, and a best-actor nomination ...

Little Rock, Arkansas - Roy Scheider, a one-time boxer whose broken nose and pugnacious acting style made him a star in "The French Connection" and who later uttered one of cinematic history's most ...

“Beautiful Blue Eyes,” the last film starring Roy Scheider, will release worldwide on Sept. 9. The two-time Oscar nominee (“Jaws,” “The French Connection,” “Marathon Man,” “Klute ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Roy Scheider, a one-time boxer whose broken nose and pugnacious acting style made him a star in “The French Connection” and who later uttered one of cinematic history’s ...