Marathon Man Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/marathon-man/ Fri, 06 Nov 2020 09:00:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Marathon Man Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/marathon-man/ 32 32 Roy Scheider : 1932-2008 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/roy-scheider-1932-2008-20080211/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/roy-scheider-1932-2008-20080211/#respond Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:53:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=11374 Roy Scheider, a leading player in the 1970s American film renaissance, died of complications from a staph infection at the age of 75 on Sunday afternoon. Scheider had suffered from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, for several years and the actor had been treated there for the disease off and on over the past two years.

While best-known as Martin Brody, the intrepid, yet agonized family man police chief in Stephen Speilberg’s “Jaws,” our favorite Scheider roles were his performances in Bob Fosse’s incredible pill-popping quasi-bio, “All That Jazz,” and William Friedkin’s ill-received and commercially disastrous (yet underrated) follow-up to “The Excorcist” – the remake of Henri Georges Clouziot’s 1953 film “The Wages of Fear” – 1977’s “Sorcerer” (itself eerily scored by German electronic group Tangerine Dream)

Scheider’s other well-known and excellent roles include in “The French Connection,” “Klute” and “Marathon Man” though anyone who grew up with “Jaws” as a child probably has a soft-spot for him (we sure do).

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