Roy Scheider

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.

Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

Dir. William Friedkin · With Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

Dir. William Friedkin · With Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

Dir. John Schlesinger · With Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

Dir. Bob Fosse · With Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

Dir. Peter Hyams · With Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Dir. Alan J. Pakula · With Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.

Dir. David Cronenberg · With Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm

A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.

Dir. Philip D'Antoni · With Roy Scheider, Jerry Leon, Tony Lo Bianco

When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.

Dir. Jonathan Hensleigh · With Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Will Patton

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Dir. Jeannot Szwarc · With Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.

Dir. Benjamin Ross · With Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith

A group of medical students discover the body of the infamous count. Soon, they find themselves in the middle of a bizarre and dangerous conflict when a shadowy figure offers them $30 million for the body so that he may harvest his blood.

Dir. Patrick Lussier · With Stephen Billington, Craig Sheffer, Jason Scott Lee

A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.

Dir. Peter Medak · With Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra

When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.

Dir. Robert Benton · With Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy

Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.

Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity

Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.

Dir. John Badham · With Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

Dir. Fred Schepisi · With Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider