Peter Viertel

Peter Viertel was born on Nov 16, 1920 in Germany. Peter Viertel's big-screen debut came with Saboteur directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1942. Peter Viertel is known for The Village directed by Leopold Lindtberg, John Justin stars as Alan Manning and Eva Dahlbeck as Wanda Piwonska. The upcoming new movie Peter Viertel plays is White Hunter Black Heart which will be released on Sep 14, 1990.

Peter Viertel, a WWII veteran whose first novel was published to glowing reviews when he was only 18, was born of parents of the European intelligentsia, refugees from Adolf Hitler's Europe. Brought up in Hollywood, in a household where Greta Garbo (his mother's closest friend), Bertolt Brecht Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel were constant guests, young Peter yearned to be an American. In need of money to be able to continue writing his novels and to support his first wife, Jigee, Viertel turned to writing scripts for Hollywood, where he soon found himself in the orbit of John Huston, the legendary director of Le faucon maltais (1941). Peter died in Marbella, Spain, nineteen days following the death of his second wife, actress Deborah Kerr.