Jaws Articles

David Brown, who co-produced Jaws, The Verdict, The Player, and A Few Good Men, died Monday (Feb. 1) at his home in Manhattan. According to the New York Times obit, Brown suffered kidney failure following a long illness. The New York native and former journalist was 93. In the ’70s, Brown partnered with Richard D. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox’s mogul Darryl F. Zanuck’s son. Their [...]

Author Peter Benchley, whose 1970s novel Jaws became a literary sensation, has died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. Benchley, who was 65, had been suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and ultimately fatal scarring of the lungs. In 1975, Jaws – the tale of a white shark with an insatiable appetite — went on to become one of the biggest box-office blockbusters [...]