Reply #159: Stage and screen actor Roy Scheider, 75.

[CBHagman]

Oh, I hate this. I went into the Lounge and saw the thread indicating that Roy Scheider had died, and then I went to The New York Times website to confirm it. God rest his soul.

For about a month after I saw All That Jazz, I went around saying, "It's showtime, folks!" Only I didn't pop the pills or use the eyedrops (or, for that matter, smoke the cigarettes).



Obituary from The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/movies/11scheider.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

I didn't know the following:

Living in Sag Harbor, Mr. Scheider continued to appear in films and lend his voice to documentaries, becoming, Ms. Seimer said, increasingly politically active. With the poet Kathy Engle, he helped to found the Hayground School in Bridgehampton, dedicated to creating an innovative, culturally diverse learning environment for local children. At the time of his death, Mr. Scheider was involved in a project to build a film studio in Florence, Italy, for a series about the history of the Renaissance.

His credits:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001702/