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Peter Viertel (16 November 1920 – 4 November 2007) was an author and screenwriter. Biography [ edit ] Viertel was born to Jewish parents in Dresden , Germany, the writer and actress Salka Viertel and the writer Berthold Viertel . [1]
Nov 6, 2007 · Peter Viertel was born in Dresden, Germany, on Nov. 16, 1920. Six years later, he moved to Hollywood, where his father, Berthold, worked as a film director and screenwriter. Christopher Isherwood ...
Dec 21, 2007 · Peter Viertel was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1920. His Viennese father, Berthold Viertel, was a poet, novelist and playwright, and had acted and directed in the theatre prior to directing ...
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
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. Brought up in Hollywood, in a household where Greta Garbo (his mother's closest friend), Bertolt Brecht Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel were constant guests, young Peter yearned to be an American.
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- November 16, 1920
- Peter Viertel
- November 4, 2007
"Peter Viertel, a screen writer who has become a successful novelist, was chosen by Director John Huston to doctor the final version of The African Queen. Viertel, who was born in Dresden, Germany, and grew up in Santa Monica, California, is the son of a movie director who is also one of the best surviving Lyric poets of Austria.
Nov 6, 2007 · Times Staff Writer. 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 ...
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