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    Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author. He is best known for his bestselling novel Jaws and co-wrote its movie...
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  • Deep is a 1977 adventure film based on Peter Benchley's 1976 novel of the same name. It was directed by Peter Yates, and stars Robert Shaw, Jacqueline...
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    Jaws (novel) (category Novels by Peter Benchley)
    Jaws is a novel by American writer Peter Benchley, published in 1974. It tells the story of a large great white shark that preys upon a small Long Island...
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  • Beast is a 1991 novel by Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws. A fishing community in Bermuda is disrupted by a series of mysterious disappearances at sea...
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    Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and movie actor...
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  • Amazon (also known as Peter Benchley's Amazon) was a syndicated adventure drama series created by Peter Benchley. It was developed by Canadian production...
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    Jaws (film) (category Films based on works by Peter Benchley)
    thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help...
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  • Nathaniel Goddard Benchley (November 13, 1915 – December 14, 1981) was an American author from Massachusetts. Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary...
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  • Nathaniel Benchley (1915–1981), American author Peter Benchley (1940–2006), American author Robert Benchley (1889–1945), American humorist Benchley, satirical...
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  • (re-published as Creature in 1997 concurrent with the film) by Jaws author Peter Benchley. The miniseries is about an amphibious shark-like monster terrorizing...
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    Jaws (franchise) (category Films based on works by Peter Benchley)
    based on the novel written by Peter Benchley, which itself was inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. Benchley adapted his novel, along with...
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  • The Island is a novel by Peter Benchley, published in 1979 by Doubleday & Co. It is about a journalist and his son who are captured by a band of modern-day...
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  • the Neverending Story and The Chosen One in the 24-episode run of Peter Benchley's Amazon. Tyler was nominated "Fan Favourite" at Canada's Gemini Awards...
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    various environmental organizations and for being the wife of author Peter Benchley. Wendy Wesson was born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey, to Harrison...
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    as a ferocious man-eater, largely as a result of the novel Jaws by Peter Benchley and its subsequent film adaptation by Steven Spielberg. Humans are not...
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  • Critics Award for Best Actress. Peter Benchley, who plays editor Frank Crowninshield, was the grandson of humorist Robert Benchley, who once worked underneath...
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  • Garreau's The Nine Nations of North America. The Island (Benchley novel), 1979, by Peter Benchley The Island (Hislop novel), 2005, by Victoria Hislop L'ile...
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  • Life to Live from 1985 to 1986, and was a regular cast member in the Peter Benchley syndicated drama Amazon (1999–2000). She has guest starred and had recurring...
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  • business, led by such best sellers as William Peter Blatty's "The Exorcist" (11 million copies sold); Peter Benchley's "Jaws" (more than nine million copies)...
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    University professor Peter Benchley (1940–2006), author and screenwriter, Jaws, The Island, lived and died in Princeton Wendy Benchley (born 1941), marine...
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    grandson of humorist Robert Benchley, a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. He is the brother of author Peter Benchley, who authored the novel Jaws...
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  • described as airport novels include: Jeffrey Archer David Baldacci Peter Benchley Dan Brown Lee Child Jackie Collins Suzanne Collins Michael Crichton...
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  • The Island (1980 film) (category Films based on works by Peter Benchley)
    David Warner. The film was based on a 1979 novel of the same name by Peter Benchley who also wrote the screenplay. It is about a savage group of pirates...
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    Protected Area. Due partly to this effort, Tong received in 2012 a Peter Benchley Ocean Award for "creating one of the World's largest and most biologically...
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  • character in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker Jaws (novel), a novel by Peter Benchley Jaws (ride), a theme park attraction based on the film series Jaws (video...
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  • Island (Huxley novel), 1962, by Aldous Huxley The Island (Benchley novel), 1979, by Peter Benchley Island (Laymon novel), 1991, by Richard Laymon Island (novel...
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  • directed by Orson Welles The Deep (1977 film), based on the novel by Peter Benchley, starring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Nolte The Deep (2012...
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  • Jaws: The Revenge (category Films based on works by Peter Benchley)
    Joseph Sargent Written by Michael de Guzman Based on Characters by Peter Benchley Produced by Joseph Sargent Starring Lorraine Gary Lance Guest Mario...
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  • Jaws 2 (category Films based on works by Peter Benchley)
    Szwarc Written by Carl Gottlieb Howard Sackler Based on Characters by Peter Benchley Produced by Richard D. Zanuck David Brown Starring Roy Scheider Lorraine...
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    Ansen Pete Axthelm Maziar Bahari Paul Begala Arnold Beichman Peter Beinart Peter Benchley Lester Bernstein Ben Bradlee Dik Browne William Broyles Jr. Hal...
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