The interview with 'Jaws' author Peter Benchley was published June 17, 2000, in the Cape Cod Times. Benchley died in 2006.

Per Page to Screen, Benchley was a freelancer at the time he first thought about writing Jaws, inspired by a great white ...

I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter ...

Based on Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name, "Jaws" follows what happens on an island off the coast of New England ...

Peter Benchley, who penned the 1974 book on which Jaws is based, has a cameo in the film as a local interviewer.

But Benchley knew a good story when he heard one. 2. Peter Benchley lived in Princeton Peter Benchley, who died in 2006, was the descendent of two famous Benchleys.

AI-assisted summary Peter Benchley, author of "Jaws," clarified misconceptions surrounding the book and film's creation in a 2000 interview. Benchley denied rumors of feuds with Spielberg and being ...

1.Director Steven Spielberg got hold of an advanced copy of the 1974 novel Jaws by Peter Benchley before it was published and knew right away that he wanted to shoot it for the screen. But there ...

Peter Benchley’s father Nathaniel was a novelist, writer and a painter whose novel “The Off-Islanders” was turned into the movie “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming.” One summer on ...

Directed by Jeff Bleckner An emergency dinghy is recovered unoccupied after yacht Occupational Hazard sinks in the sea off ...