"You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat"

Hollywood lost a terrific actor. Roy Scheider has died.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) -- Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died. He was 75.

Scheider died 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.

However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.

Scheider received two Oscar nominations, for best-supporting actor in 1971's "The French Connection" in which he played the police partner of Oscar winner Gene Hackman, and for best-actor for 1979's "All That Jazz," the autobiographical Bob Fosse film. (H/T - CNN)

Scheider and I did not have a lot in common politically - he was just left of Michael Moore - but I never gave a rat's ass about actors' personal beliefs. If they performed their craft well, I respected them, and Scheider gave me hours of entertainment in such films as Jaws, The French Connection, and Blue Thunder.

Godspeed, Roy.