Movies by Roy Scheider
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Dark Honeymoon (2008)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Tia Carrere, Lindy Booth …
Directed by: David O'Malley
An all-star cast, including Daryl Hannah, Roy Scheider and Tia Carrere, headlines this thriller about a newly married couple who set off for a romantic honeymoon on the Oregon coast, where…
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Chicago 10 (2007)
Cast: Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, David Boateng …
Directed by: Brett Morgen
Blending archival footage with modern animation, this documentary examines the massive protests besetting the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, and the courtroom trial of several activists…
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Blue Blood (2007)
Cast: Bill Sage, Roy Scheider, Susan Misner …
Directed by: Ben Cummings, Orson Cummings
This noir thriller set in an exclusive Hamptons seaside resort follows trophy husband Davis Meyers (Bill Sage) as he schemes with his lover (Susan Misner) to off his Manhattan power lawyer…
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Hearts of War (2007)
Cast: Jonathan Scarfe, Nina Dobrev, Zachary Bennett …
Directed by: Damian Lee
A Jewish woman and the German soldier she loves find themselves divided by the conflict in Poland during World War II's early days. Believing they're separated forever, she marries…
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Dracula III: Legacy (2005)
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Stephen Billington, Diane Neal …
Directed by: Patrick Lussier
In this direct-to-video sequel, Father Uffizi and Luke head to civil war-plagued Eastern Europe to save Elizabeth and destroy Dracula once and for all. Upon arriving, they learn that warlords…
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Citizen Verdict (2005)
Cast: Armand Assante, Jerry Springer, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: Philippe Martinez
In a sly bit of typecasting, Jerry Springer plays Marty Rockman, a reality-TV producer who hits on an idea to try criminal cases on-air, with the audience acting as jury. If the convicted is…
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The Punisher (2004)
Cast: Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Rebecca Romijn …
Directed by: Jonathan Hensleigh
Undercover FBI agent Frank Castle is devastated when his wife and children are murdered after witnessing a Mafia hit. So with nothing left to lose or to live for, Castle becomes "the…
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Dracula II: Ascension (2003)
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, Craig Sheffer …
Directed by: Patrick Lussier
Medical students (Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, Brande Roderick) discover the body of the infamous Count (killed in Wes Craven's prequel, Dracula 2000) and find themselves in the middle…
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A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
Cast: Francis Ford Coppola, William Friedkin, Julie Christie …
Directed by: Ted Demme, Richard LaGravenese
This documentary explores American cinema in the 1970s, a decade often described as the best years in film. What results is an ode to the art form, one that pays homage to the "auteurs" that…
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No Money Down (2003)
Cast: Bob Balaban, Teri Garr, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: Sam Sokolow, Rob Lobl
After getting fired from his job and evicted from his apartment, Eric Traber (Josh Lucas) is whisked away by his friend Ziggy (Jeffery Beuhl) for the comfort of the Hamptons. Once there,…
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King of Texas (2002)
Cast: Patrick Stewart, Marcia Gay Harden, Lauren Holly …
Directed by: Uli Edel
Shakespeare's King Lear goes Western in this drama starring Patrick Stewart, Marcia Gay Harden and Lauren Holly. The Battle of the Alamo is about to commence, and John Lear (Stewart), a…
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Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines (2002)
Cast: Roy Scheider
Directed by: Nick Spark
Roy Scheider narrates this in-depth look at the history of the missile submarine. Directed by Nick T. Spark, the film boasts additional, never-before-seen footage and photos from declassified…
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Angels Don't Sleep Here (2002)
Cast: Dana Ashbrook, Kelly Rutherford, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: Paul Cade
Forensic pathologist Michael (Dana Ashbrook) returns to his hometown to investigate his twin brother's disappearance years earlier. But soon, brotherly love turns to shock as he realizes…
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Love Thy Neighbor (2002)
Cast: Jack Gwaltney, Kellie Overbey, John Enos III …
Directed by: Nick Gregory
Talk about taking the Second Commandment literally! It's the age-old story of "hell to pay" when two married couples -- who also happen to be best friends -- find themselves entangled in…
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The Good War (2002)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Luca Zingaretti, Vincent Riotta …
Directed by: Giorgio Serafini
In this World War II drama, Col. Gartner (Roy Scheider) oversees the Hereford Internment Camp in Texas. Luigi Manin (Luca Zingaretti), an Italian detainee, escapes the prison, but is soon…
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Red Serpent (2002)
Cast: Michael Paré, Roy Scheider, Oleg Taktarov …
Directed by: Gino Tanasescu
Roy Scheider, Michael Paré and Oleg Taktarov star in this thriller that centers on American pharmaceutical representative Steve Nichols, who heads to Moscow on a routine business trip.…
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Diamond Hunters (2001)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Alyssa Milano, Sean Patrick Flanery …
Directed by: Dennis Berry
Blessed be the ties that bind, unless money's involved. That's the case, it seems, when Johnny (Sean Patrick Flannery) attempts to bridge the gap between him and his estranged dad,…
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The Doorway (2000)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Teresa de Priest, Christian Harmony …
Directed by: Michael B. Druxman
Talk about a realtor's nightmare! College friends Susan (Suzanne Bridgham), Rick (Christian Harmony), Tammy (Lauren Woodland) and Owen (Don Maloney) take a job renovating an old home,…
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Chain of Command (2000)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Patrick Muldoon, Maria Conchita Alonso …
Directed by: John Terlesky
When America elects a womanizing president (Roy Scheider), the Secret Service agent (Patrick Muldoon) hired to protect him expresses his disgust. That gets him reassigned to guard the…
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Time Lapse (2000)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Dina Meyer, William McNamara …
Directed by: David Worth
Unwittingly dosed with a drug designed to permanently erase his memory, American intelligence agent Clayton Pierce (William McNamara) must race against the clock to locate a missing nuclear…
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Directors: John Frankenheimer (1999)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Kirk Douglas, Samuel L. Jackson …
During his long career, director John Frankenheimer made some of the most acclaimed thrillers of the last 50 years, including The Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz, Seven Days in May,…
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RKO 281 (1999)
Cast: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith …
Directed by: Benjamin Ross
High on the success of his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, the prodigiously talented Orson Welles (Liev Schreiber) heads west to pursue a career in movies. An invitation to the California…
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The White Raven (1998)
Cast: Ron Silver, Joanna Pacula, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: Andrew Stevens
Reporter Tully Windsor (Ron Silver) is pulled into the chase for the world's second largest diamond after his editor (Roy Scheider) realizes that a story Tully wrote years ago may have…
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Evasive Action (1998)
Cast: Dorian Harewood, Ray Wise, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: Jerry P. Jacobs
When officials from a federal penitentiary put several of the country's most dangerous prisoners on a train to transport them to a new facility, it's a recipe for disaster as the…
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The Peacekeeper (1997)
Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Montel Williams, Michael Sarrazin …
Directed by: Frederic Forestier
Against his superiors' wishes, Air Force pilot Frank Cross (Dolph Lundgren) executes a daring food drop over a band of refugees. His willful actions leave him grounded, with a new…
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The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
Cast: Noah Wyle, Arija Bareikis, Blythe Danner …
Directed by: Bart Freundlich
Warren (Noah Wyle) returns home after a three-year absence and soon falls into the rhythms of his childhood: bickering with his siblings, hanging out with his stoner buddies and avoiding his…
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Executive Target (1997)
Cast: Michael Madsen, Angie Everhart, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: Joseph Merhi
Stunt driver Nick is headed to prison on a minor charge when he's suddenly freed by a ruthless terrorist gang led by a beautiful seductress. The gang has a diabolical plan to kidnap the…
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The Rage (1997)
Cast: Lorenzo Lamas, Gary Busey, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: Sidney J. Furie
FBI agent Nick Travis (Lorenzo Lamas) is hot on the trail of a psychopath (Gary Busey) who's gone on a rampage with his murderous, anti-establishment gang. But just when it looks as if…
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Spy in the Sky: American Experience (1996)
Cast: Roy Scheider
From the Emmy-winning PBS series "American Experience" comes this documentary about the United States military's storied U-2 CIA spy plane, from its debut during the Eisenhower…
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Plato's Run (1996)
Cast: Steven Bauer, Gary Busey, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: James Becket
When former Navy SEAL Plato Smith's (Gary Busey) fishing business begins to fail, his desperation leads him to accept a mercenary assignment and rescue two escaped Cuban prisoners. With…
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Romeo Is Bleeding (1994)
Cast: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Juliette Lewis …
Directed by: Peter Medak
Corrupt New York City detective Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman) has a nice home, a beautiful wife (Annabella Sciorra) and a sweet, if stupid, mistress (Juliette Lewis). Attempting to live beyond…
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SeaQuest DSV (1993)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Jonathan Brandis, Don Franklin …
Set in a not-so-distant future that's taken human civilization into the ocean's depths, this Steven Spielberg-produced sci-fi series concerns the adventures of a peacekeeping vessel…
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Naked Lunch (1991)
Cast: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm …
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Director David Cronenberg brings William S. Burroughs' hallucinatory, "unfilmable" novel to the screen. Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges…
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The Russia House (1990)
Cast: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: Fred Schepisi
After intercepting a Russian manuscript meant for small-time publisher Barley Blair (Sean Connery), CIA agents urge Blair to follow up on the deal. He wants nothing to do with it -- until he…
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Listen to Me (1989)
Cast: Kirk Cameron, Jami Gertz, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: Douglas Day Stewart
Top college debaters Tucker Muldowney (Kirk Cameron) and Monica Tomanski (Jami Gertz) are never at a loss for words -- except when it comes to expressing their feelings for each other. The…
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52 Pick Up (1986)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
An extramarital affair comes back to haunt wealthy businessman Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider) when three blackmailers (John Glover, Robert Trebor and Clarence Williams III) present him with an…
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The Men's Club (1986)
Cast: David Dukes, Richard Jordan, Harvey Keitel …
Directed by: Peter Medak
Psychotherapist Kramer (Richard Jordan) convenes an all-male chat group, including former baseball star Cavanaugh (Roy Scheider), businessman Solly (Harvey Keitel) and prudish Harold (Frank…
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2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
Cast: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren …
Directed by: Peter Hyams
In this stunning sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, ex-NASA chief Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) helms a U.S.-Soviet mission of scientists (including John Lithgow and Helen Mirren) trying to…
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Blue Thunder (1983)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark …
Directed by: John Badham
While testing an experimental high-tech helicopter ostensibly created to quash potential terrorism at the Olympics, chopper pilot Frank Murphy hijacks the craft when he learns its true…
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Tiger Town (1983)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Justin Henry, Ron McLarty …
Directed by: Alan Shapiro
This heartwarming all-American tale recalls a more innocent time when baseball was played, and watched, solely for love of the game. Fatherless Alex (Justin Henry) lives for baseball,…
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Still Of The Night (1982)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy …
Directed by: Robert Benton
Meryl Streep stars as Brooke Reynolds, the mistress of a married man who turns up dead, prompting her to pay a visit to her deceased lover's psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider), to…
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All That Jazz (1979)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking …
Directed by: Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse's Oscar-winning autobiographical film celebrates the raunchy underbelly of show business. Successful director-choreographer Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is at the top of the…
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Last Embrace (1979)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, John Glover …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
After helplessly witnessing his wife's cold-blooded murder, emotionally devastated government intelligence officer Harry (Roy Scheider) attempts to piece his life back together while…
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Jaws 2 (1978)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton …
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
Just as Amity Island begins to rebound from a spate of deadly shark attacks, a pair of missing divers and a boating accident lead police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) to suspect the…
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Sorcerer (1977)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal …
Directed by: William Friedkin
William Friedkin directs this tale based on the French suspense film The Wages of Fear. Four men (Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Amidou and Francisco Rabal), each from a different country, are…
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Marathon Man (1976)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: John Schlesinger
When his CIA agent brother (Roy Scheider) is killed, graduate student Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself trapped in a deadly game with a Nazi fugitive (Laurence Olivier), a sadist who…
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Jaws (1975)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Director Steven Spielberg virtually invented the summer blockbuster with this white-knuckle adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel about an insatiable great white shark that terrorizes the…
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The Seven-Ups (1973)
Cast: Roy Scheider, David Wilson, Tony Lo Bianco …
Buddy Manucci (Roy Scheider) has made a name for himself in the New York City Police Department by heading up a task force that goes after crooks whose crimes demand a minimum sentence of…
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Klute (1971)
Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi …
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Thoroughly inhabiting what is by far one of her greatest roles, Jane Fonda won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as a manipulative big-city prostitute who helps a small-town detective named…
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The French Connection (1971)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: William Friedkin
Tough-as-nails narcotics detective "Popeye" Doyle and his partner, Russo, are in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a multimillion-dollar heroin-smuggling…
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Barry Primus, Viveca Lindfors …
Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
Award-winning actress Faye Dunaway portrays tortured former model Lou Andreas Sand, who, after suffering a nervous breakdown, leads a reclusive life at the beach. Her former lover Aaron…
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Paper Lion (1968)
Cast: Alan Alda, Josef Schmidt, Lauren Hutton …
Directed by: Alex March
Obsessed with pitching a first-person story to &NFi;Sports Illustrated&NFi_; about what it's like to be a professional quarterback, klutzy journalist George Plimpton (Alan Alda)…
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Del Tenney Double Feature: The Horror of Party Beach/The Curse of the Living Corpse (1963)
Cast: John Scott, Alice Lyon, Allen Laurel …
Directed by: Del Tenney
Scarf down a double dose of director Del Tenney with this one-two punch of campy 1960s horror! In The Horror of Party Beach, a wayward stream of toxic waste brings to life abandoned human…