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February 11, 2008
Roy Scheider (1932 - 2007)
The actor Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his portrayal of a small-town police chief in the 1970s blockbuster Jaws, has died. He was 75.Scheider died yesterday of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, where he had been treated over the past two years.
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In it, he played Martin Brody, the intrepid police chief of a New England seaside resort who goes on a hunt (alongside a shark scientist and a grizzled old fisherman) for a Great White Shark that is terrorising his community – although not before doing battle with the town mayor who wants to keep the beaches open.
The film's most memorable line - said to have been improvised by Scheider himself - was: "You’re gonna need a bigger boat."
(via kelly sue, Times Online)
Posted by Groonk at February 11, 2008 12:37 PM | Ministry of People Who Died
