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Peter Viertel(1920-2007)

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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. In need of money to be able to continue writing his novels and to support his first wife, Jigee, Viertel turned to writing scripts for Hollywood, where he soon found himself in the orbit of John Huston, the legendary director of The Maltese Falcon (1941). Peter died in Marbella, Spain, nineteen days following the death of his second wife, actress Deborah Kerr.
BornNovember 16, 1920
DiedNovember 4, 2007(86)
BornNovember 16, 1920
DiedNovember 4, 2007(86)
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Gloria Grahame, Roy Webb, James Bell, Jeff Corey, Myrna Dell, Jeff Donnell, Martha Hyer, John Ireland, Claude Jarman Jr., Mark Robson, Steve Savage, Robert Sterling, and Peter Viertel in Roughshod (1949)

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Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane in Saboteur (1942)
Saboteur
7.1
  • Writer
  • 1942
Gloria Grahame, Jeff Donnell, John Ireland, and Robert Sterling in Roughshod (1949)
Roughshod
6.6
  • Writer
  • 1949
Pedro Armendáriz, John Garfield, and Jennifer Jones in We Were Strangers (1949)
We Were Strangers
6.6
  • Writer
  • 1949
Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, and Dennis Morgan in The Hard Way (1943)
The Hard Way
7.1
  • Writer
  • 1943

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  • Clint Eastwood in White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
    White Hunter Black Heart
  • Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins in Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
    Five Miles to Midnight
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
    The Old Man and the Sea
  • Brigitte Bardot and Stephen Boyd in The Night Heaven Fell (1958)
    The Night Heaven Fell
    • (uncredited)
  • The Sun Also Rises (1957)
    The Sun Also Rises
  • The Survivors
  • Lux Video Theatre (1950)
    Lux Video Theatre
  • Beat the Devil (1953)
    Beat the Devil
    • (uncredited)
  • The Village (1953)
    The Village
  • Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen (1951)
    The African Queen
    • (uncredited)
  • Dominique Blanchar, Hildegard Knef, and Oskar Werner in Decision Before Dawn (1951)
    Decision Before Dawn
  • Studio One (1948)
    Studio One
  • Four Days Leave (1949)
    Four Days Leave
    • (uncredited)
  • Gloria Grahame, Jeff Donnell, John Ireland, and Robert Sterling in Roughshod (1949)
    Roughshod
  • Pedro Armendáriz, John Garfield, and Jennifer Jones in We Were Strangers (1949)
    We Were Strangers

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    • November 16, 1920
    • Dresden, Germany
    • November 4, 2007
    • Marbella, Spain(lymphoma)
    • Deborah KerrJuly 23, 1960 - October 16, 2007 (her death)
  • Other works
    Playwright (w/Irwin Shaw: "The Survivors"
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    • 6 Articles

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    Died 20 days after the death of his wife, actress Deborah Kerr. It was said that her death affected him immensely.

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