Over his 30-plus-year acting career, Roy Scheider has redefined America's idea of a leading man, thanks to his talent for playing an urban everyman that audiences relate to and root for, despite flaws and failures.
He rose to fame in the early 1970s in the Oscar-winning films
Klute
and
The French Connection
(his first Oscar nomination). Roy garnered more critical acclaim in
Jaws
Marathon Man,
as well as a second Oscar nomination for
All That Jazz.
Scheider's life and career are chronicled in this work. Beginning with his childhood in New Jersey, it traces his development from a community theater actor to a world-renowned movie star, and covers his more recent work in the Golden Globe-winning
RKO 281
and the Shakespearean drama
King of Texas.
Includes a complete filmography and index.