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Peter Viertel is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 16 november 1920 at Dresden (German)

Peter Viertel

Peter Viertel
Peter Viertel participated to 16 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 3 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Scriptwriter

The African Queen, 1h45
Directed by John Huston, Guy Hamilton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel, Peter C. Bull, Walter Gotell
Rating76% 3.8481753.8481753.8481753.8481753.848175
Samuel Sayer (Robert Morley) and his sister Rose (Katharine Hepburn) are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German East Africa at the beginning of World War I in August/September 1914. Their mail and supplies are delivered by a small tramp steamer named the African Queen, helmed by the rough-and-ready Canadian boat captain Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), whose coarse behavior they tolerate in a rather stiff manner.
The Search
The Search (1948)
, 1h45
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Films about children
Actors Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotná, Wendell Corey, Ivan Jandl, Fred Zinnemann
Roles Writer
Rating77% 3.8914153.8914153.8914153.8914153.891415
Trains bring homeless children (Displaced Persons or DPs), who are taken by Mrs. Murray (Aline MacMahon) and other United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) workers to a nearby transit camp, where they are fed and cared for. The next morning, the children are interviewed by UNRRA officials to try to identify them and reunite them if possible with their families.
The Old Man and the Sea, 1h26
Directed by Henry King, Fred Zinnemann, John Sturges, Don Alvarado
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Vieillesse, Mise en scène d'un poisson
Actors Spencer Tracy, Harry Bellaver, Don Diamond, Don Alvarado, Tony Rosato, Mauritz Hugo
Rating68% 3.446093.446093.446093.446093.44609
Spencer Tracy is the Old Man, a Cuban fisherman who tries to haul in a huge fish that he catches far from shore.