Roy Scheider
Chicago 10 (2008)
Chicago 10: Speak Your Peace is a 2007 American animated documentary written and directed by Brett Morgen that tells the story of the Chicago Eight. The Chicago Eight were charged by the United States federal government with conspiracy, crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot, and other charges related to anti-Vietnam War and countercultu...
Starring: John Pinette•Teresa Wright•Dean Stockwell•Sean Connery•Warren Oates•Jane Fonda•Ann-Margret•Janet Margolin•Murray Hamilton•Robert Shaw
The Punisher (2004)
The Punisher is a 2004 American vigilante action film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, directed by Jonathan Hensleigh, written by Hensleigh and Michael France. It stars Thomas Jane as the antihero Frank Castle and John Travolta as Howard Saint, a crime boss who orders the death of Castle's entire family.
Starring: John Pinette•Margot Hartman•Fritz Weaver•Dana Elcar•James Fox•Fernando Rey•Gene Hackman•Faye Dunaway•Donald Sutherland•Jon Voight
The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
The Myth of Fingerprints is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Bart Freundlich. It stars Blythe Danner, Roy Scheider, Noah Wyle, and Julianne Moore. The story follows the gathering of a dysfunctional family during Thanksgiving in New England.
Starring: John Pinette•Ben Vereen•Tony Lo Bianco•Bonnie Bedelia
The Rainmaker (1997)
The Rainmaker is a 1997 American legal drama film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola based on John Grisham's 1995 novel of the same title. It stars Matt Damon, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, Mary Kay Place, Mickey Rourke, Danny DeVito, Danny Glover, Roy Scheider, Virginia Madsen, and Teresa Wright in her final film role.
Starring: Barry Primus•Malcolm McDowell•John Pinette•Blythe Danner•John Lithgow•Walter Cronkite•Klaus Maria Brandauer•Richard Dreyfuss•Candy Clark•Larry Haines
Romeo Is Bleeding (1994)
Romeo Is Bleeding is a 1993 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Peter Medak, written and produced by Hilary Henkin, and starring Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, and Roy Scheider. It follows a psychosexual cat-and-mouse game between a corrupt cop (Oldman), and a ruthless mob assassin (Olin) who begins to unravel his c...
Starring: John Pinette•Marthe Keller•Meryl Streep•John Glover•Francisco Rabal
Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
Romeo Is Bleeding is a 1993 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Peter Medak, written and produced by Hilary Henkin, and starring Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, and Roy Scheider. It follows a psychosexual cat-and-mouse game between a corrupt cop (Oldman), and a ruthless mob assassin (Olin) who begins to unravel his c...
Starring: John Pinette•Marthe Keller•Meryl Streep•John Glover•Francisco Rabal
Naked Lunch (1991)
Naked Lunch is a 1991 surrealist science fiction drama film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider. It is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel of the same name, and an international co-production of Canada, Britain, and Japan.
Starring: John Pinette•Ann Reinking•Treat Williams
The Fourth War (1990)
The Fourth War is a 1990 American cold war drama film directed by John Frankenheimer. It is set in West Germany of the late 1980s, and was filmed in Alberta, Canada. It stars Roy Scheider and Jürgen Prochnow as two military men whose personal dispute threatens to escalate into a larger conflict.
Starring: John Pinette•Helen Mirren
The Russia House (1990)
The Russia House is a 1990 American spy film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, Klaus Maria Brandauer and director Ken Russell. Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay based on John le Carré's 1989 novel of the same name. It was the first US motion picture to be shot substantiall...
Starring: Allen Ginsberg•John Pinette•Mickey Rourke•Michelle Pfeiffer•Peter Weller
Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture (1990)
Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture is a 1990 American made-for-television prison drama film written by photojournalist Doug Magee, inspired by his interviews with and photos of death row prisoners. The film was directed by Frank Pierson.
Starring: John Pinette•Jennifer Jason Leigh
Cohen and Tate (1989)
Cohen and Tate is a 1989 American thriller film written and directed by Eric Red and starring Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin and Harley Cross. It was Red's feature film debut. The film is considered as a cinematic version of O. Henry's short story "The Ransom of Red Chief".
Starring: John Pinette•Mary Kay Place•Jürgen Prochnow
Listen to Me (1989)
Listen to Me is a 1989 American drama film written and directed by Douglas Day Stewart. Released on May 5, 1989, it stars Kirk Cameron, Jami Gertz, and Roy Scheider. The film was largely shot on location in Malibu, California, including the campus of Pepperdine University.
Starring: John Pinette•Virginia Madsen•Judy Davis•Danny Glover
Night Game (1989)
Night Game is a 1989 American crime thriller filmed in Galveston and Houston, Texas. It stars Roy Scheider as a detective who must solve a series of murders. Released on September 15, 1989 by Epic Productions, the film was written by Spencer Eastman and directed by Peter Masterson.
Starring: John Pinette•Kirk Cameron
52 Pick-Up (1986)
52 Pick-Up is a 1986 American neo-noir crime film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, and Vanity. It is based on Elmore Leonard's 1974 novel of the same name, and is the second adaptation of it after The Ambassador (1984).
Starring: Will Patton•John Pinette•Gary Oldman
The Men's Club (1986)
The Men's Club is a 1986 American drama film directed by Peter Medak, based on the novel of the same name by Leonard Michaels. It stars Roy Scheider, Harvey Keitel, Frank Langella, Treat Williams, David Dukes and Richard Jordan. It is noted for a scene where Keitel assertively denies engaging in masturbation.
Starring: John Pinette•Harley Cross•Juliette Lewis•Laura Harring•Annabella Sciorra•Samantha Mathis
2010 (1984)
2010: The Year We Make Contact is a 1984 American science fiction film written, produced, shot and directed by Peter Hyams. It is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and is based on Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 sequel novel, 2010: Odyssey Two. The film stars Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban and John Lithgow, along with K...
Starring: John Pinette•Matt Damon•Hank Azaria•Liev Schreiber•Jeffrey Wright
Blue Thunder (1983)
Blue Thunder is a 1983 American action thriller film from Columbia Pictures, produced by Gordon Carroll, Phil Feldman, and Andrew Fogelson and directed by John Badham.
Starring: Thomas Jane•John Pinette•Dylan Baker•Ben Foster•Shane Meier
Still of the Night (1982)
Still of the Night is a 1982 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Robert Benton and starring Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Joe Grifasi, and Jessica Tandy. It was written by Benton and David Newman. Scheider plays a psychiatrist who falls in love with a woman (Streep) who may be the psychopathic killer of one of his patients.
Starring: John Pinette•Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
All That Jazz (1979)
All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay, by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse, is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as a dancer, choreographer and director. The film was inspired by Fosse's manic effort to edit his film Lenny while simultaneously staging the 197...
Starring: John Pinette•Marcus Johns•Laurence Olivier•Jane Fonda
Last Embrace (1979)
Last Embrace is a 1979 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. Very loosely based on the novel The 13th Man by Murray Teigh Bloom, it stars Roy Scheider and Janet Margolin, telling the story of a woman who takes the role similar to the biblical avenger Goel and kills the descendants of the Zwi Migdal, who enslaved her grandmothe...
Starring: Janet Margolin•John Pinette
Jaws 2 (1978)
Jaws 2 is a 1978 American horror film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and co-written by Carl Gottlieb. It is the sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975), and the second installment in the Jaws franchise. The film stars Roy Scheider as Police Chief Martin Brody, with Lorraine Gary and Murray Hamilton reprising their respective roles as Martin's wife Ell...
Starring: Murray Hamilton•John Pinette•Robert Shaw
Sorcerer (1977)
Sorcerer is a 1977 American thriller film directed and produced by William Friedkin and starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou. The second adaptation of Georges Arnaud's 1950 French novel Le Salaire de la peur, it has been widely considered a remake of the 1953 film The Wages of Fear, although Friedkin disagreed with this ...
Starring: John Pinette•Margot Hartman•Fritz Weaver
Marathon Man (1976)
Marathon Man is a 1976 American thriller film directed by John Schlesinger. It was adapted by William Goldman from his 1974 novel of the same title and stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller. In the film, "Babe" Levy, a graduate student (Hoffman), becomes embroiled in a plot by Nazi war criminal Chris...
Starring: Fernando Rey•John Pinette•Gene Hackman•Faye Dunaway•Donald Sutherland•Dustin Hoffman
Jaws (1975)
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter, hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town. Murray Hamilton plays the m...
Starring: Tony Lo Bianco•John Pinette•Barry Primus
The Seven-Ups (1973)
The Seven-Ups is a 1973 American neo-noir mystery action film produced and directed by Philip D'Antoni. It stars Roy Scheider as a crusading policeman who is the leader of the Seven-Ups, a squad of plainclothes officers who use dirty, unorthodox tactics to snare their quarry on charges leading to prison sentences of seven years or more upon prosecu...
Starring: John Pinette•William Devane•Richard Dreyfuss
The French Connection (1971)
The French Connection is a 1971 American neo-noir crime action thriller film starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey, and directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay, written by Ernest Tidyman, is based on Robin Moore's 1969 book of the same name. It tells the story of fictional NYPD detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy"...
Starring: John Pinette•Larry Haines•Lorraine Gary
Klute (1971)
Klute is a 1971 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula, written by Andy and Dave Lewis, and starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi and Roy Scheider. The film follows a high-priced call girl who assists a detective in solving a missing-persons case. It is the first installment of what has inform...
Starring: Jessica Lange•John Pinette•Marthe Keller
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child is a 1970 American drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Faye Dunaway, Barry Morse, Viveca Lindfors, Roy Scheider, and Barry Primus.
Starring: John Pinette•Francisco Rabal•Bruno Cremer
The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)
The Curse of the Living Corpse is a 1964 American horror film produced, written and directed by Del Tenney. The film is about a series of murders that haunt the family of a man who died leaving extensive instructions in his will to avoid him being buried alive. The film marked the feature film debut of actor Roy Scheider. It was originally co-bille...
Starring: John Pinette•Ann Reinking