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Born | Henry Hunt Searls August 10, 1922 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
Died | February 17, 2017 Gig Harbor, Washington, U.S. | (aged 94)
Occupation | Novelist and screenwriter |
Alma mater | United States Naval Academy |
Henry Hunt Searls (August 10, 1922 – February 17, 2017)[1][2] was an American author and screenwriter. His novels included The Crowded Sky (1960), which was adapted as the 1960 movie of the same name; The Pilgrim Project (1964), which was adapted as the 1968 movie Countdown; and The Penetrators (1965, writing as Anthony Gray). Searls also wrote the novelizations for the movies Jaws 2 (1978) featuring Roy Scheider and Murray Hamilton, and Jaws: The Revenge (1987) featuring Michael Caine and Lorraine Gary.