Benchley, Peter
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Name (Hebrew)
בנצ'לי, פיטר
Name (Latin)
Benchley, Peter
Name (Arabic)
بنشلي، بيتر، 1940-2006
Other forms of name
Benchli, Piter
Date of birth
1940-05-08
Date of death
2006-02-11
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Fiction
Motion picture plays
Novels
Occupation
Novelists
Screenwriters
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Wikipedia, February 16, 2016(Peter Benchley; Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940-February 12, 2006) was an American author, best known for his novel Jaws and its subsequent film adaptation, the latter co-written by Benchley (with Carl Gottlieb) and directed by Steven Spielberg. Several more of his works were also adapted for cinema, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark; born New York City; died Princeton, New Jersey)
- His Jonathan visits the White House, 1964.
- Belai︠a︡ akula, 1996:t.p. (Piter Benchli)
- NUCMC data from Boston Univ., Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center for Peter Benchley collection, 1957-1999(Peter Bradford Benchley)
- New York times WWW site, Feb. 13, 2006(Peter Benchley; d. yesterday morning [Feb. 12, 2006], Princeton, N.J., aged 65; his 1974 novel Jaws turned shark attacks into a national obsession; he later used what he called his "fish story" to help promote oceanic conservation)
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1940)
- الجزيرة، 1990:صفحة العنوان (بيتر بنشلي)