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Peter Viertel is an author and screenwriter. He was born on November 16 1920 in Dresden, Germany to the writer/actress Salka Viertel and the writer Berthold Viertel. He grew up in Santa Monica, California.
He is most famous for his novel White Hunter Black Heart which was made into a film starring Clint Eastwood in 1990. By his own admission, the novel is an account of his time working on the script to The African Queen, and the central character in the novel is Pete Verrill, a thinly-disguised pseudonym.
Viertel has been married twice; firstly to Victoria Schulberg and then to the actress Deborah Kerr on 23 July 1960.
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