Legendary Jaws actor Roy Scheider dies

ROY SCHEIDER, a one-time boxer whose broken nose and pugnacious acting style made him a star in The French Connection and who later uttered one of cinematic history’s most memorable lines in Jaws, has died. He was 75.

Mr Scheider died on Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said.

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