Jaws star dies age 75
Actor Roy Scheider, best known for his role in 70s blockbuster Jaws, has died at the age of 75.
The Hollywood star died of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, at a hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Scheider picked up two Oscar nominations during his career and starred twice as a small town police chief in Steven Spielberg's cult Jaws series.
The classically-trained actor often played harried lawmen or average guys caught up in extraordinary circumstances.
New Jersey-born Scheider earned his first Academy Award nod for his supporting role as a narcotics detective partnered with Gene Hackman in the 1971 crime drama The French Connection.
Eight years later, he was nominated as best lead actor for his portrait of the famed womanising, pill-popping choreographer Bob Fosse in All That Jazz.
As his film career sputtered in the 1990s, Scheider turned to the small screen starring in futuristic undersea adventure series SeaQuest DSV.
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