10 Actors Who Were Recreated With Special Effects In Movies

8) Roy Scheider – Iron Cross

Best known Brody in Jaws, Roy Scheider’s last movie was a little thriller called Iron Cross. It saw Scheider play Joseph, a Holocaust survivor who finally goes after the Nazi who killed his family in old age. Unfortunately, he passed away at the age of 75 before production completed.

As there was just one key scene yet to complete, the filmmakers decided to employ a mix of some talented make-up work and state-of-the-art technology to finish the movie without him. They were granted permission to do so by Scheider’s widow, actress Brenda Seimer-Scheider, and his family.

In a mirror of the method used in Terminator Salvation, director Joshua Newton and his team employed an old-fashioned technique to resurrect Scheider on screen. Their first port of call was to create a prosthetic latex mask of the actor’s very distinctive features which was then worn by a stand-in. Again, like Salvation, the effect was then finalized in post-production.