PETER VIERTEL

'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.
He is most famous for his novel ''White Hunter Black Heart'' which was made into a film starring Clint Eastwood in 1990. ^[1]
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.
Viertel has been married twice; firstly to Virginia "Jigee" Ray Schulberg and then to the actress Deborah Kerr on 23 July 1960.

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Films

Books

References

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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)

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)

★ '' (1992)

★ ''Loser Deals'' (1995)

References

1. Sur in English "Peter Viertel author and screenwriter" May 31 2007

External links

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★ Peter Viertel (fan-site)

★ 1992 audio interview of Peter Viertel by Don Swaim