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Nov 4, 2007 · Screenwriter, Author. The son of Salka and Berthold Viertel, he was born in Dresden, Germany and at the age of eight moved with his parents to Santa Monica, California. He began his career as a novelist but turned to writing scripts for Hollywood. Viertel originally worked as RKO producer Val Lewton's assistant. His...
Jul 1, 1992 · How many people are played in their thinly disguised biography by Robert Redford? Peter Viertel was; in "The Way We Were". Years later he was a character in Clint Eastwood's film "White Hunter, Black Heart", the novel he wrote about John Huston and the filming of "The African Queen".
Nov 17, 2007 · Film writer and novelist; Born November 16, 1920; Died November 4, 2007. Peter Viertel, who has died aged 86 less than a month after his wife, the Glasgow-born film star Deborah Kerr, was a film ...
May 11, 2011 · Peter Viertel - Born November 16, 1920 in Dresden, Germany. Died November 4, 2007 in Marbella, Spain.
May 11, 2011 · Peter Viertel - Born November 16, 1920 in Dresden, Germany. Died November 4, 2007 in Marbella, Spain.
Peter Viertel's memoir of his years in the world of Ernest Hemingway, John Huston, Irwin Shaw, and the greats of the film industry from the '40s to the '70s. A screenwriter and novelist, Viertel saw in these quintessential American extroverts the authentic self-expression he sought in his writing and in his life. 40 photographs.
Oct 31, 2006 · This book evokes the mythic giants of the glory days of the American film industry. Creative artists and men's men, flamboyant egoists, performers of spontaneous acts of selfishness and these are Peter Viertel's "dangerous friends".
