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

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

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

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

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

In a phone interview from his New Jersey home, Benchley tries to debunk much of what has been written about him and "Jaws" in the past 25 years. Now 60 and an outspoken conservationist for ocean ...

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 ...

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 ...