Peter Viertel is an author and screenwriter. He was born on November 16, 1920 in Dresden, Germany to the writer/actress Salka Viertel and the writer Berthold Viertel. He grew up in Santa Monica, California. Jump to: navigation, search The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events WIKIPEDIA EATS VAGINA January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Jump to: navigation, search Dresden is the capital city of the German federal state of Saxony, is situated in a valley on the river Elbe. ... Salka Viertel (born as Salka Stenermann on June 15, 1889 in Sambor, Ukraine) was an actress and screenplay writer. ... Berthold Viertel (born June 28, 1885 in Vienna, Austria) was screen writer and director. ... Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica is a coastal city located in Los Angeles County, California USA, by the Pacific Ocean, south of Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, west of Westwood, Los Angeles, and north of Venice. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ...

He is most famous for his novel White Hunter Black Heart which was made into a film starring Clint Eastwood in 1990. By his own admission, the novel is an account of his time working on the script to The African Queen, and the central character in the novel is Pete Verrill, a thinly-disguised pseudonym. White Hunter Black Heart is a 1990 film, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as John Wilson, based on the book by Peter Viertel. ... Jump to: navigation, search Clint Eastwood today. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the movie. ...

Viertel has been married twice; firstly to Victoria Schulberg and then to the actress Deborah Kerr on 23 July 1960. Deborah Kerr Deborah Kerr (born September 30, 1921) is a Scottish film actress. ... Jump to: navigation, search July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Films

• Saboteur (1942)
• The Hard Way (1943)
• We Were Strangers (1949)
• Roughshod (1949)
• Decision Before Dawn (1951)
• The African Queen (1951)
• The Sun Also Rises (1957)
• Les Bijoutiers du clair de lune (1958)
• The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
• Le Couteau dans la plaie (1962)
• White Hunter Black Heart (1990)

Saboteur DVD cover Saboteur is a 1942 Universal film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with screenplay written by Peter Viertel and Joan Harrison. ... Decision Before Dawn is a 1950 war film which tells the story of an American Army, looking for intelligence in the closing days of World War II, which has to rely on potentially unreliable German prisoners to gather information. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the movie. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Sun Also Rises is the first significant novel by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1926, following a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s. ... Jump to: navigation, search Original book cover The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. ... White Hunter Black Heart is a 1990 film, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as John Wilson, based on the book by Peter Viertel. ...

Books

• The Canyon (1940)
• Line of Departure (1947)
• White Hunter Black Heart (1953)
• Love Lies Bleeding (1964)
• Bicycle on the Beach (1971)
• American Skin (1984)
• Dangerous Friends: At Large with Huston and Hemingway in the Fifties (1992)
• Loser Deals (1995)

White Hunter Black Heart is a 1990 film, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as John Wilson, based on the book by Peter Viertel. ...

External links

• Peter Viertel at the Internet Movie Database
• Peter Viertel (fan-site)