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Roy Scheider
10 films · 796 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1970–2004
Born 10 November 1932 · Orange, New Jersey, USA · died 10 February 2008
Roy Richard Scheider was an American actor and amateur boxer who achieved fame with his leading and supporting roles in celebrated films from the 1970s to the mid-1980s. He was nominated for two Academy Awards, one Golden Globe, and one BAFTA. Scheider's best-known roles include Frank Ligourin in Klute (1971), Police Chief Martin Brody in Jaws (1975) and its 1978 sequel, "Cloudy" Russo in The French Connection (1971), "Buddy" in The Seven-Ups (1973), Doc Levy in Marathon Man (1976), Scanlon / Dominguez in Sorcerer (1977), Joe Gideon in All That Jazz (1979), Frank Murphy in Blue Thunder (1983), and Dr. Heywood Floyd in the 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 796 frames from the 10 films we hold. This is the look of the work Roy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 10 films we hold, 54% of their frames are day, 53% natural — the look of the work Roy takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Russia House
1990 · Russell
All That Jazz
1979 · Joe Gideon
Sorcerer
1977 · Scanlon / "Dominguez"
Marathon Man
1976 · Henry 'Doc' Levy
The French Connection
1971 · Buddy Russo
Jaws
· Brody
The Punisher
2004 · Frank Castle, Sr.
Naked Lunch
1991 · Dr. Benway
Klute
1971 · Frank Ligourin
Puzzle of a Downfall Child
1970 · Mark
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 796 frames from Roy Scheider's 10 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.