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- Peter Viertel (16 November 1920 – 4 November 2007) was an author and screenwriter.
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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. [6] It is a thinly-disguised account of Viertel's experiences working with film director John Huston while they were making The African Queen. The central character is scriptwriter Pete Verrill while the Huston character is ...
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 like...
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. In World War II Viertel enlisted in the Marine Corps and wound up in the South Pacific.
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 novels...
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.
- November 16, 1920
- November 4, 2007
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...
Nov 4, 2007 · Peter Viertel (16 November 1920 – 4 November 2007) was an author and screenwriter. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close. Biography. Viertel was born to Jewish parents in Dresden, Germany, the writer and actress Salka Viertel and the writer Berthold Viertel.
