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Peter Viertel

Writer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born November 16, 1920Died November 4, 2007 (86 years)
Peter Viertel was an author and screenwriter best known for his novel White Hunter Black Heart, which was made into a film starring Clint Eastwood in 1990

Known For

  • Saboteur
  • The African Queen
  • White Hunter Black Heart
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • Decision Before Dawn
  • Beat the Devil
  • We Were Strangers
  • Five Miles to Midnight
  • The Search
  • Roughshod
  • The Hard Way
  • The Night Heaven Fell
  • Brunnen
  • The Village
  • Four Days Leave

Peter Viertel Filmography

1990
White Hunter Black Heart · as Screenplay
1958
The Old Man and the Sea · as Screenplay
1958
1957
The Sun Also Rises · as Screenplay
1953
The Village · as Screenplay
1951
Decision Before Dawn · as Screenplay
1951
1949
1949
We Were Strangers · as Screenplay
1948
1943
The Hard Way · as Screenplay
1942
Saboteur · as Screenplay

2024
Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes · as Self - Screenwriter & Friend
2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles · as Self - Writer And Orson's Friend (archive Footage)
2001
Greta Garbo: A Lone Star · as Self - Friend
1995
¡Qué grande es el cine! (TV Series) · as Self - Panelist
1988
1968
The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self
1962
1962
The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest

1962
Five Miles to Midnight · as Adaptation
1953
Beat the Devil · as Screenplay Collaboration
1950
The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Original Screenplay
1949
Roughshod · as Story
1948
Studio One (TV Series) · as Story

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