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Viertel was best known for his novel White Hunter Black Heart, which was made into a film starring Clint Eastwood in 1990. It is a thinly-disguised account of Viertel's experiences working with film director John Huston while they were making The African Queen .
Nov 6, 2007 · Peter Viertel, a noted author and screenwriter who plumbed his relationships with the aristocracy of Hollywood — starting with Greta Garbo, his mother’s best friend — and literary lions...
Peter Viertel was a novelist and screenwriter who worked with John Huston and Greta Garbo. He died in 2007, 20 days after his wife Deborah Kerr, with whom he co-wrote Saboteur.
- November 16, 1920
- November 4, 2007
Dec 21, 2007 · The novelist and screen-writer Peter Viertel, whose films include Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942) and Huston's The African Queen (1951), was equally known as a bon viveur and raconteur whose...
Peter Viertel. Writer: Saboteur. Peter Viertel, a WWII veteran whose first novel was published to glowing reviews when he was only 18, was born of parents of the European intelligentsia, refugees from Adolf Hitler's Europe.
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- November 16, 1920
- Peter Viertel
- November 4, 2007
PETER VIERTEL Brief Bio. Viertel was born on November 16, 1920 in Dresden, Germany. He moved to the United States at the age of eight with his parents Berthold and Salka, and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen. His mother and father had life-long careers in film, theatre and literature.
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Nov 6, 2007 · Peter Viertel, the novelist, memoirist and screenwriter best known for his books chronicling episodes in the lives of Ernest Hemingway and John Huston, has died. He was 86. Viertel died of...
