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The Complete Works: Roy Scheider

The Complete Works

The Complete Works is a podcast dedicated to exploring an actor"s filmography, one movie at a time - assessing the highs and lows of their career and how it reflects the film industry at large. The current season, Season 4, is covering the films of Roy Scheider. Past seasons include Nicolas Cage, Jeff Goldblum, and Michelle Yeoh (with new episodes for their respective seasons being published as needed).

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01:08:53

For Love of the Game (1999) / Major League (1989)

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2025/04/17

It's a baseball double header for this month's Mike Makes Mike Watch - Smith is making Mike D watch Sam Raimi's FOR LOVE OF THE GAME, while Mike D is making Smith watch MAJOR LEAGUE! Baseball expert and major Yankees fan Producer Collin joins us for these two movies in which the Yankees are the bad guys - whoops!

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00:53:40

Ep. 39 - The Rainmaker (1997)

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2025/04/14

This week, Roy Scheider pops up for a brief part in Francis Ford Coppola's legal thriller THE RAINMAKER! Based on a John Grisham novel and starring Matt Damon (in his first leading role), alongside Danny DeVito, Jon Voight, Claire Danes, Danny Glover, and more, this was Coppola's final studio film!

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00:45:47

Ep. 38 - The Peacekeeper (1997)

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2025/04/07

This week, Roy Scheider has been elected to a second term as the president of the United States, this time in the 1997 Dolph Lundgren vehicle THE PEACEKEEPER! It's a film that boldly asks the question, "What if DIE HARD took place in a missile silo?"

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01:22:10

Off Mike - Final Destination, Mickey 17, Reacher, and...

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2025/04/04

It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, both Mikes have rewatched the entire Final Destination series (and they're willing to talk more about them for a Ko-Fi donation)! Smith is talking new releases like MICKEY 17 and BLACK BAG, while Mike D is back into TV in a big way with shows like REACHER and GANGS OF LONDON!

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00:44:42

Ep. 37 - The Rage (1997)

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2025/03/31

This week, Roy Scheider reunites with Gary Busey for another direct-to-video action movie from 1997 - this time also featuring Lorenzo Lamas and Kristen Cloke - it's time for THE RAGE!

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01:38:19

Retrospective: The Films of Tangerine Dream

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2025/03/27

Thanks to a listener donation, Mike and Mike are taking the time to look back on the films scored by Tangerine Dream! In this retrospective, we're talking six films that we felt were representative of the Tangerine Dream filmography: Sorcerer, Thief, Risky Business, Legend, Near Dark, and Miracle Mile - plus we toss in a couple of extras too!

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00:43:45

Ep. 36 - Executive Target (1997)

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2025/03/24

This week, we've got a surprisingly solid direct-to-video action movie featuring not one, not two, but THREE pretty incredible car chases! Michael Madsen plays a former stuntman who gets broken out of jail by Keith David and then gets involved in a plot to kidnap the President of the United States - who is, of course, played by Roy Scheider.

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00:59:40

Lone Star (1996) / UHF (1989)

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2025/03/21

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D is making Smith watch John Sayles' thrilling neo-noir LONE STAR, while Smith is making Mike D catch up with Weird Al Yankovic in 1989's UHF!

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00:37:16

Ep. 35 - Plato's Run (1997)

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2025/03/17

We now enter the direct-to-video action thriller phase of Roy Scheider's career, and we begin with the first of two movies he made starring Gary Busey in 1997! Scheider is the villain of the movie, a landmine baron who kidnaps Gary Busey's daughter - it's time for PLATO'S RUN!

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00:39:57

Ep. 34 - The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)

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2025/03/10

A dysfunctional family reunites for the holidays and past secrets finally get revealed. It's time to talk about Roy Scheider alongside Julianne Moore, Blythe Danner, Hope Davis, Noah Wyle and more in 1997's Sundance dramedy, THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS!

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00:39:38

Bonus: The 97th Academy Awards!

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2025/03/07

What did the Mikes think of this year's Oscars? We'll tell you! It's time to recap the 97th Academy Awards!

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00:49:55

Ep. 33 - SeaQuest DSV (1993)

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2025/03/03

In 1993, Roy Scheider took on a journey to boldly go where no man had gone before... underwater! Yes, it's finally time to talk about the two-part pilot episode to Scheider's TV series, SEAQUEST DSV! We also discuss the turbulent production the show faced over the course of its three seasons.

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00:48:38

Terror In a Texas Town (1958) / Nobody (2021)

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2025/02/28

It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D makes Smith watch an underseen western noir starring Sterling Hayden, 1958's TERROR IN A TEXAS TOWN. Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D catch up with the Bob Odenkirk action movie NOBODY so he can prep for Timo Tjahanto's upcoming sequel!

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00:49:08

Ep. 32 - Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)

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2025/02/23

This week, Roy Scheider appears as a mob boss alongside Gary Oldman, Juliette Lewis, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, and more in a movie that was so despised that Jon Bon Jovi wrote a song for it and then refused to let the producers use it - it's time for ROMEO IS BLEEDING!

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01:36:20

Off Mike - Captain America: Brave New World, SNL 50,...

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2025/02/21

It's been a while, but it's finally time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! Smith has been watching a ton of new releases like Captain America: Brave New World, Paddington in Peru, Companion, and Heart Eyes, while Mike D talks the new Wolf Man, Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent, Jonathan Glazer's Birth, and more! Plus, we've got some TV thoughts, including Station 11, Severance, Mythic Quest, and SNL 50!

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00:56:13

Ep. 31 - Naked Lunch (1991)

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2025/02/17

This week, Roy Scheider plays a small but pivotal supporting role in David Cronenberg's cult classic, NAKED LUNCH! Adapted from the novel by William S. Burroughs, Scheider stars alongside Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and more in what may be the strangest and one of the last great movie of his career.

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01:28:31

Let's Rank The Muppets!

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2025/02/14

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time to... RANK the Muppets??? Yes, thanks to a Ko-fi donation from one of our listeners, the Mikes are ranking every theatrically-released Muppets film from worst to best!

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00:49:23

Ep. 30 - The Russia House (1990)

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2025/02/10

This week, we've got another early 90's Cold War thriller, and this time it's a John Le Carré adaptation starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfieffer in the lead roles - Roy Scheider appears alongside them in THE RUSSIA HOUSE!

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01:04:11

Yeoh Ep. 59 - Star Trek: Section 31 (2025)

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2025/02/03

This week, it's time to return to the Michelle Yeoh season to talk about the brand-new spinoff movie featuring Yeoh's character from Star Trek: Discovery, STAR TREK: SECTION 31! How does this Paramount Plus original fare against the long cinematic legacy of Star Trek films? Let's find out!

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00:44:24

The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert...

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2025/01/31

It's time for the first Mike Makes Mike Watch of 2025! And this time we... sort of accidentally created a great double feature of bleak, snowy westerns? This time around, Mike Smith is making Mike D watch THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD, while Mike D is making Smith catch up with a classic spaghetti western, Sergio Corbucci's THE GREAT SILENCE!

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