On Feb 10, 9:23*pm, HK wrote:
* Roy Scheider, a stage actor with a background in the classics who
* became one of the leading figures in the American film renaissance of
* the 1970s, died on Sunday afternoon in Little Rock, Ark. He was 75 and
* lived in Sag Harbor, N.Y.

* Mr. Scheider had suffered from multiple myeloma for several years, and
* died of complications from a staph infection, his wife, Brenda Seimer,
* said.

* Mr. Scheider's rangy figure, gaunt face and emotional openness made
* him particularly appealing in everyman roles, most famously as the
* agonized police chief of "Jaws," Steven Spielberg's 1975 breakthrough
* hit, about a New England resort town haunted by the knowledge that a
* killer shark is preying on the local beaches.

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Scheider was terrific in lots of roles, but those boat scenes in Jaws
were just wonderful.

"We're going to need a bigger boat..."

Jaws. Now THAT'S a very refined, classy, cultured, sophisticated movie.