Roy Scheider turned down a role in the Best Picture-winning The Deer Hunter, which led him to return as Chief Brody in Jaws 2 ...

An amateur boxer — classed as a welterweight, weighing in at 140 pounds — from Orange, New Jersey, Roy Richard Scheider ... and The French Connection, playing a fictionalized version of ...

Why audiences root for Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle against all odds - INSIDE FILM: More than half a century after William ...

Dreyfuss stayed involved in the Jaws fandom and attended the Broadway comedic play The Shark Is Broken, which is based off ...

Hamilton's screen career began 30 years prior to Jaws' release, with the actor appearing in enduring classics like The Spirit ...

Speaking of William Friedkin, for his Treat, Sutherland reflects on his transformative experience watching 1971’s The French Connection for the first time at age 15. The film introduced him to acting ...

Actor Tony Lo Bianco, best known for his role in the movie “The French Connection ... “The French Connection.” The film also starred Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey and Roy Scheider, and ...

When their information leads them to place a candy store under surveillance, they discover the owners are the American agents for a French kingpin ... Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey ...

William Friedkin’s 1971 thriller French Connection tells the story of bent cops ‘Popeye’ Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy ‘Cloudy’ (Roy Scheider) as they attempt to foil a large narcotics ...

Fans of the classic film The French Connection have taken to social ... and Buddy “Cloudy” Russo (Roy Scheider) and a racial slur is uttered. The sequence has been removed without a trace ...

starring two-time Academy Award Nominee Roy Scheider(The French Connection, All That Jazz), is now bigger than ever. Global distributor MovieFarm announced today that Scheider's powerful final ...