Emilio Calvo de Mora en MuchoCine.net escribió: Ha muerto el jefe Brody...
Será para siempre el jefe Martin Brody, el policia de Tiburón, pero también Joe Gideon, el coreógrafo de All that jazz. O el agente de la CIA de Marathon man. A la todavía cuestionable edad para dejarnos de 75 años, Roy Scheider no va a hacer ningún gran papel más.
La memoria cinéfila, ésa que colecciona imágenes y las ve pasando de cuando en cuando por el único placer de recordar la felicidad que nos procuraron, tendrá un hueco para este hombre enjuto y elegante que hacía de involuntario Ahab moderno o de neurótico genial con adicciones infinitas y tendencia insostenible al suicidio. En la ceremonia de entrega de los Óscars de este 2.008 colgarán una fotografía enorme en ese pasillo de muertos venerables orquestado con lágrimas y violínes de dos mil dólares. Me encantaría que pusiesen al actor encarnando al propio Fosse en su biografía fantaseada o en mitad del oceáno, agitado por el miedo y por la música de Williams mientras el tiburón avanza para devorarlo. Ahora han podido.
Y en IMDB se escribió: Actor Roy Scheider Dies at 75
Actor Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his leading role as the water-phobic police chief in the smash blockbuster Jaws, died Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences hospital; he was 75. Though an official cause of death was not released at press time, a hospital spokeswoman stated that the actor had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's research center for the past two years. Born in New Jersey, Scheider pursued a career in boxing before turning to acting, and won an Obie award for his work with the New York Shakespeare Festival in the late '60s. His first major film appearances also began in the late '60s in such movies as Star! and Paper Lion, and it was in 1971 that he truly gained fame for his roles two popular thrillers, Klute and The French Connection; the latter earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. However, it was his role four years later in the Steven Spielberg thriller Jaws for which he became most well-known, playing a local lawman in a tourist beach town who must contend with the sudden appearance of a great white shark; his line, "You're gonna need a bigger boat," became one of the most well-known lines in contemporary film. Scheider also appeared in the ill-fated sequel Jaws 2 (after dropping out of the lead role in The Deer Hunter and in order to be let out of his Universal Studios contract) and the thriller Marathon Man before embarking on his most acclaimed performance, that of Broadway director and choreographer Joe Gideon in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. The role, closely based on Fosse's life, brought Scheider his second Academy Award nomination in 1979, this time for Best Actor. Though none of Scheider's later films would reach the heights of his movies from the '70s, he continued to work steadily in both film and television, with diverse roles in such films as Still Of The Night, Blue Thunder, 2010, The Russia House, Naked Lunch, The Peacekeeper, The Myth Of Fingerprints (for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination) and the TV series SeaQuest DSV and Third Watch. Scheider is survived by his three children and his second wife, actress Brenda King.
R.I.P.
Ben Vereen & Roy Scheider - All That Jazz - Bye Bye Love.mp3
