Former Reserve Capt. Roy Scheider dies at 75

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"Jaws" star Roy Scheider, pictured last year, served in three years on active duty in the Air Force in the 1950s. The two-time Academy Award nominationed actor died Feb. 10.


Former Reserve Capt. Roy Scheider dies at 75
By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Feb 11, 2008 17:38:18 EST

Twenty years before actor Roy Scheider was chasing sharks in “Jaws,” as Police Chief Martin Brody, he was giving orders in the Air Force.

Scheider, who died Sunday, served as an active-duty Air Force officer for three years in the mid-1950s and later was a reservist, according to accounts of Scheider’s life.

The actor passed away at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. He was 75.

The hospital did not release a cause of death, but Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital’s Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.

According to the book “Roy Scheider: A Film Biography,” Scheider joined ROTC in 1953 at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. The book says he joined, in part, to avoid being drafted. At Franklin and Marshall, He majored in history as a pre-law student there while acting in college productions.


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