Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An amateur boxer — classed as a welterweight, weighing in at 140 pounds — from Orange, New Jersey, Roy Richard Scheider became a ...

A likeable character actor whose everyday-guy brand of toughness made him a stand-out in '70s blockbusters like Jaws and The French Connection, Roy Scheider died Sunday at age 75. A cause of death ...

He was not a man who took life lightly. From throwing himself into demanding movie roles to joining thousands protesting U.S. involvement in foreign wars, Roy Richard Scheider was all in. He did not ...