Today's Birthdays

one click shows all of today's celebrity birthdays

Browse All Birthdays

43,625    Actors
27,931    Actresses
4,867    Composers
7,058    Directors
842    Footballers
221    Racing drivers
925    Singers
9,111    Writers

Get FamousLikeMe on your website
One line of code gets FamousLikeMe on your website. Find out more.

Subscribe to Daily updates


Add to Google

privacy policy



Famous Like Me > Writer > V > Peter Viertel

Profile of Peter Viertel on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Peter Viertel  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 16th November 1920
   
Place of Birth: Dresden, Germany
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Peter Viertel is a novelist 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.

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.

He has been married twice: Firstly to Victoria Schulberg and then, on 23 July 1960, he married the Hollywood actress Deborah Kerr.


Filmography (screenwriter)

  • 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)


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)


This content from Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Peter Viertel