Emerging from Orange, New Jersey, Scheider grew up as the son of an Irish-Catholic mother and a German-American father, pursued amateur boxing before turning to drama studies at Rutgers and Franklin & Marshall, and served as a first lieutenant in the Air Force during the 1950s. His screen debut arrived in the mid-1960s, but the early 1970s brought critical attention through roles in Klute and as t… Read more
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Known for Jaws 1975 Family Guy 1999 The Punisher 2004 The French Connection 1971 Series ★ 8.1 E! True Hollywood Story 1996
Series ★ 8 Third Watch 1999
Fyodor Chevchenko ★ 7.3 The Shark Is Still Working 2009
Narrator / Self Series ★ 7.1 seaQuest DSV 1993
Captain Nathan Bridger Series ★ 7.1 NOVA 1974
Narrator ★ 7 The Rainmaker 1997
Wilfred Keeley ★ 7 Naked Lunch 1991
Dr. Benway Series ★ 6.7 Cannon 1971
★ 6.6 The Assassination 1972
Michael Howard ★ 6.5 RKO 281 1999
George Schaefer ★ 6.5 Cohen and Tate 1989
Cohen Series ★ 6.5 American Experience 1988
Narrator (voice) ★ 6.5 Puzzle of a Downfall Child 1970
Mark Series ★ 6.4 Secrets of the Dead 2000
Narrator (voice) ★ 6.4 The Seven-Ups 1973
Buddy - Seven-Up ★ 6.3 Blue Thunder 1983
Murphy ★ 6.2 Romeo Is Bleeding 1993
Don Falcone ★ 6.1 The Russia House 1990
Russell ★ 6.1 52 Pick-Up 1986
Harry Mitchell ★ 6.1 The Outside Man 1972
Lenny ★ 5.7 Still of the Night 1982
Doctor Sam Rice ★ 5.7 The Curse of the Living Corpse 1964
Philip Sinclair ★ 5.6 Dracula II: Ascension 2003
Cardinal Siqueros ★ 5.5 Last Embrace 1979
Harry Hannan ★ 5.4 The Poet 2007
Rabbi ★ 5.4 Listen to Me 1989
Charlie Nichols ★ 5.3 The Fourth War 1990
Col. Jack Knowles ★ 5.1 The Myth of Fingerprints 1997
Hal ★ 4.9 Dracula III: Legacy 2005
Cardinal Siqueros ★ 4.8 The Peacekeeper 1997
President Robert Baker ★ 4.8 Executive Target 1997
President Carlson ★ 4.6 Night Game 1989
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