Roy Scheider Roy Scheider Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer. Scheider gained fame for his leading and supporting roles in several iconic films from the 1970s, playing NYPD Detective Buddy "Cloudy" Russo in "The French Connection" (1971); NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci in "The Seven Ups" (1973); Police Chief Martin Brody in "Jaws" (1975) and "Jaws 2" (1978); Doc in "Marathon Man" (1976); choreographer and film director Joe Gideon (whose character was based on Bob Fosse) in "All That Jazz" (which was written and directed by Fosse) (1979); and Dr. Heywood R.
Bob Fosse Long Island, where Fosse had been living with his girlfriend of four years, and scattered his ashes in the Atlantic Ocean as he had requested. At the 1973 Academy Awards, Fosse won the Academy Award for Best Director for "Cabaret". In the same year he won Tony Awards for directing and choreographing "Pippin" and Primetime Emmy Awards for producing, choreographing and directing Liza Minnelli's television special "Liza with a Z". He was the first and so far only person to win all three major industry awards in the same year. Fosse was inducted into the National Museum of Dance in