Pop Critics » Knute http://popcritics.com Reviewing popular culture so you don't have to Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:48:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 ‘Jaws’ star Roy Scheider dies at age 75 http://popcritics.com/2008/02/10/jaws-star-roy-scheider-dies-at-age-75 http://popcritics.com/2008/02/10/jaws-star-roy-scheider-dies-at-age-75#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:50:36 +0000 Mike http://www.popcritics.com/2008/02/jaws-star-roy-scheider-dies-at-age-75/ The star of one of the greatest thrillers of all time, Jaws, is dead at age 75.

Roy Scheider died on Sunday at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences hospital. The immediate cause of death has not been released, but he had been diagnosed with myeloma and had a succeeding bone marrow transplant in 2004.

His career took off in 1971 with Klute and The French Connection, and in 1975, he starred in Jaws as a police chief trying to find a killer shark.

I’ll always remember him for that movie and also 2010, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Scheider is survived by his wife Brenda, two daughters and a son.

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