Peter Viertel - Turner Classic Movies

About

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Birth Place

Germany

Born

November 16, 1920

Died

November 04, 2007

Cause of Death

Lymphoma

Filmography

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White Hunter Black Heart (1990)

Five Miles to Midnight (1963)

Five Miles to Midnight (1963)

Blood and Roses (1961)

The Journey (1959)

The Old Man and the Sea (1958)

The Screenplay by

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African Queen, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, German East Africa

African Queen, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) On Account Of The War

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

White Hunter Black Heart (1990)

Five Miles to Midnight (1963)

Five Miles to Midnight (1963)

Blood and Roses (1961)

The Journey (1959)

The Old Man and the Sea (1958)

The Screenplay by

The Sun Also Rises (1957)

Decision Before Dawn (1951)

The African Queen (1951)

We Were Strangers (1949)

Roughshod (1949)

The Hard Way (1943)

Saboteur (1942)

Original Screenplay

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

White Hunter Black Heart (1990)

Source Material (From Novel)

Cast (Special)

Greta Garbo: A Lone Star (2001)

Life Events

Videos

African Queen, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, German East Africa Opening titles and introduction of key characters Rose (Katharine Hepburn), "Brother" (Robert Morley), Alnut (Humphrey Bogart) and the boat called The African Queen, 1951, directed by John Huston.

African Queen, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) On Account Of The War Captain Charlie Alnut (Humphrey Bogart) has tea with missionaries Brother (Robert Morley) and Sister (Katharine Hepburn) where they discuss gastric noise and war, in John Huston's The African Queen, 1951.

African Queen, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Skinny Old Maid! Rose (Katharine Hepburn) gets familiar with the phenomenon of Charlie (Humphrey Bogart) drinking, as he makes clear his disgust with her determination to sail on, in John Huston's The African Queen, 1951.

African Queen, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Clean Habits A soliloquy for Charlie (Humphrey Bogart) after Rose (Katharine Hepburn) has dumped all his gin into the river, in John Huston's The African Queen, 1951.

African Queen, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Any Mere Physical Experience... Grizzled launch captain Charlie Alnut (Humphrey Bogart) is disappointed when bereaved missionary Rose (Katharine Hepburn) enjoys her first run on the rapids, and is determined to press on with her plan to attack the Germans, in John Huston's The African Queen, 1951.

African Queen, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) We Showed 'Em! Having just evaded the German fort, Rose (Katharine Hepburn) and Charlie (Humphrey Bogart) hit another stretch of rapids, which they pass to their mutual surprise, in John Huston's The African Queen, 1951.

Roughshod (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Puttin' Up Fences And Passin' Laws Homesteader Jed (Jeff Corey) discovers three drovers murdered by escaped convicts in the opening, bringing them to Aspen, Nevada, when he meets the ladies (Gloria Grahame as Mary, leading Myrna Dell, Martha Hyer, and Jeff Donnell as Elaine) headed for Sonora, early in Roughshod, 1949, starring Robert Sterling.

Roughshod (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Stick To Rabbits We’ve just met Clay (Robert Sterling), with kid brother Steve (Claude Jarman Jr.), hearing from the sheriff (Edward Cassidy) in Aspen about the three cowboys killed by three escaped convicts, and he reveals a little more about his interest while shopping with Hayes (Paul Burns), early in director Mark Robson’s Roughshod, 1949.

Journey, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I Even Mystify Myself Yul Brynner as clever Russian commander Surov isn’t buying the cover story from Lady Ashmore (Deborah Kerr) that Jason Robards Jr. is Britisher Flemyng, who’s just feeling ill, and not her former lover, a Hungarian dissident shot in an escape attempt, trying to get out of the country during the 1956 uprising, in The Journey, 1959.

Journey, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Russian Clocks Sometimes Very Slow After credits establishing Budapest, during the 1956 Hungarian uprising, Robert Morley the English correspondent stranded in an airport, with fellows David Kossoff, Gèrard Oury and E.G. Marshall, Russian-born Anatole Litvak producing and directing, in The Journey, 1959, starring Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner and Jason Robards Jr.

Journey, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Wanna Play War? Excepting one earlier shot, the feature debut of Jason Robards Jr., his character’s identity not quite revealed, except that he’s traveling with English aristocrat Deborah Kerr, who’s recognized by journalist Deverill (Robert Morley), then meeting American E.G. Marshall and family (sons Flip Mark and “Ronny” Howard, wife Anne Jackson), all stranded at the Budapest airport during the 1956 Hungarian uprising, in Anatole Litvak’s The Journey, 1959.

Journey, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) You Think I'm The Devil! Yul Brynner is Surov, Russian commander of a Hungarian town during the 1956 uprising, holding forth with temporarily detained guests, journalist Robert Morley, American mom Anne Jackson, Deborah Kerr as a socialite whom we know is helping a dissident escape, then with Anouk Aimee, secret leader of a rebel band, in Anatole Litvak’s The Journey, 1959.

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