Roy Scheider-Orson Welles connections

[Harvey Chartrand]

The late, great Roy Scheider appeared with Welles in IN OUR HANDS, a 1984 documentary about an anti-nuclear protest in New York's Central Park. I've never seen IN OUR HANDS, but somehow doubt that Scheider and Welles shared any screen time. Still, I was surprised to discover they actually co-starred in a film together – albeit an obscure documentary.
One of Scheider's final roles was as a bargaining serial killer on Death Row in ENDGAME, last year's remarkable season finale of LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT. As the manipulative Mark Ford Brady, Scheider toys with the increasingly unstable Detective Robert Goren, played by Vincent D'Onofrio, who starred as Welles in ED WOOD (1994) and in the 2005 short FIVE MINUTES, MR. WELLES.

[Harvey Chartrand]

Another Welles-Scheider connection: Roy Scheider was outstanding as RKO Radio Pictures' president George Schaefer in the 1999 TV-movie RKO 281, about the making of CITIZEN KANE. Sean Axmaker notes in Nitrate Online.com – http://www.nitrateonline.com/1999/rrko281.html – "As much an artist as a businessman, Schaefer is an often-neglected hero in the KANE saga but is presented here with dignity and respect and invested with a courageous passion by Scheider."
Sad when one thinks that Welles essentially destroyed Schaefer's career in Hollywood with the back-to-back box office failures of KANE and THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS.