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Roy Scheider

It seems like every week I’ve been posting about somebody who’s died - guess what, it’s happened again.

Roy Schedier passed away on Sunday at the age of 75. He was one of those actors who you knew would put in a good performance, no matter how bad the film was. He was never really considered an "A List" actor, but he never really needed to be one either.

The role he will be most remembered for is, of course, Chief Brody. Even today, Jaws holds up as a very watchable piece of cinema (even if the shark does look a little pathetic) partly due to Schedier’s performance. Throughtout the film his family-man character acts as a stabilising center, the one person we could latch onto and believe in.

He was also in the somewhat enjoyable Seaquest DSV, which I recall watching on a Sunday afternoon on ITV. It wasn’t the best of shows, but it was a good lead in to You’ve Been Framed - please remember that I was only about 8!

I’m glad in some respects that he never returned for the last two Jaws films, as they were rotten to the core. It would have been nice to see him one last time as Chief Brody in a decent Jaws sequel, but alas that was never meant to be.

R.I.P Roy Scheider, heaven’s gonna need a bigger boat.

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