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.

Steve Spielberg's Jaws saw a sudden change after a real shark attack on Matt Hooper's stuntman was "better than anything they ...

A little over a year before Jaws opened in theaters and forever changed the next 50 years of cinema, it was a best-selling debut novel by author Peter Benchley. Producers Richard Zanuck and David ...

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 ...

I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter Benchley’s novel. The book and film terrified me. But I had been a ...

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 ...

Benchley: Oh yes, you hit a chord close to my heart, and that is we’re just hoping someday, someone will make The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, because that was Peter’s favorite book and I don ...

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 ...