Roy Scheider, best known for his work on stage and screen, passed away February 10th, from a staff infection due to complications from multiple myeloma. Mr. Scheider was 75 years old.
Scheider was born in 1932 in Orange, NJ and graduated from college as a history major. 
He served three years in the Air Force where he was discharged at the rank of First Lieutenant.
Roy Scheider made his professional stage debut in a 1961 production New York Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet, where he played the role of Mercutio. His broadway debut came four years later in a stage production of Tartuffe.
Having over seventy films to his credit, Scheider received an Oscar nomination for one of his best known films, All That Jazz (1979), where he portrayed the infamous Broadway choreographer, Bob Fosse. His most well known role was in 1975, playing the resort police chief in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws.
He is survived by his wife, three children and two grandchildren.
Five Minutes to Curtain would like to express our condolences to Roy Scheider’s family, friends and fans.
He served three years in the Air Force where he was discharged at the rank of First Lieutenant.
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