Two-time American Oscar nominee Roy Scheider has died aged 75. For the past two years Scheider had been receiving treatment for multiple myeloma.
Although Scheider was best known to cinema goers as the police chief in the blockbuster “Jaws’, his most virtuouso performance was in the late Bob Fosse’s semi-autobiographical musical, “All That Jazz’.
Scheider earned a best actor nomination for that role, having earlier been nominated in the supporting actor category for “The French Connection.’
Other notable films were “Marathon Man’, “Still of the Night’ and “The Russia House’.
