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Peter Viertel

Living place: Germany

Birthday: 16-11-1920 (104 years old)

Global rank: #53790

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Who is Novelist Peter Viertel?
Best known for his dramatic novel adaptation of White Hunter Black Heart, he is also known for his dramatic contributions to Saboteur Alfred Hitchcock and The African Queen John Huston and We Were Strange.
Viertel's figure and demeanor was inspired by Hubbell Gardiner's portrayal of Robert Redford in the hit 1973 film The Way We Were.

Young / Before famous

A year before graduating from Dartmouth College, he published his debut novel The Canyon. During the World War II years, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and later worked for the United States office of Strategic Services (OSS).

Family life info

One of three sons born to Austrian-Jewish writers Berthold and Salka Viertel, Peter Viertel spent his early days in Dresden, Germany, and most of his childhood in Santa Monica, California. , USA With his first wife, actress Virginia Ray (aka Jigee Viertel), he had a daughter named Christine. His second marriage, to screen actress Deborah Kerr, lasted from 1960 until Kerr's death in October 2007 (he died just three weeks later)

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He adapted two of Ernest Hemingway's novels, The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea, into 1950 films of the same title.

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When was Novelist Peter Viertel born?
Peter Viertel birthday 16-11-1920 (at the age of 104).
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Peter Viertel was born in Germany. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Scorpius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Peter Viertel's global rank is 53790 and whose rank is 445 in list of famous Novelist.

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Events in 1920 and 16-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Peter Viertel

U.S. Dept. of Justice "red hunt" nets thousands of radicals; aliens deported.
Women's suffrage (19th) amendment ratified. Background: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
Treaty of Sèvres dissolves Ottoman Empire.
Mexican president Venustiano Carranza is assassinated.

Birthday Peter Viertel (16-11) in history

Day 16-11 year 1864: General Sherman and his troops began their "March to the sea" during the Civil War.
Day 16-11 year 1907: Oklahoma became the 46th state.
Day 16-11 year 1933: The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
Day 16-11 year 1973: President Nixon signed the bill authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
Day 16-11 year 1995: International Tolerance Day or International Tolerance Day is an annual action day proclaimed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1995 to create public awareness of the dangers of abuse. Zero tolerance was celebrated on November 16
Day 16-11 year 2004: President George W. Bush nominated Condoleezza Rice to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state.

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