"Jaws" author Peter Benchley remembers stepping off a plane at the Martha's Vineyard airport in 1974 and being ambushed by a Los Angeles Times reporter. "Steven Spielberg thinks your book is a piece ...

The legacy of “Jaws” lives forever for Wendy Benchley. Benchley, the widow of “Jaws” author Peter Benchley and an executive producer on the new documentary “Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story,” ...

Peter Benchley, who lived in Princeton for over three decades until his 2006 death, wrote one of the most successful debut novels of all time, "Jaws," published in 1974. The movie of the same name ...

Are you still afraid to go into the water? 50 years ago this month, the film JAWS debuted in theaters. The fabled great white shark has thrilled and terrified generations of moviegoers ever since. Its ...

‘Jaws’ at 50: Wife of late "Jaws" author talks enduring legacy of the book's film adaptation Wendy Benchley, the wife of late "Jaws" author talked to Fox News Digital about the enduring legacy of the ...

New York, NY -- Peter Benchley, whose novel "Jaws" terrorized millions of swimmers even as the author himself became an advocate for the conservation of sharks, has died at age 65, his widow said ...

Wendy Benchley, married to the author for 41 years, said he died Saturday night at their home in Princeton, N.J. The cause of death, she said, was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and a ...

Dun dun. Dun dun. Dun dun. Dun dun dun dun. Dun dun dun dun… That shudder-inducing sound you hear isn’t the ominous chords of John Williams’ iconic theme, but the sound of producers circling a Jaws ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — In November, the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will be celebrating the legacy of the iconic film, “Jaws,” and the novel that inspired ...

Steven Spielberg's Jaws took some of the most interesting aspects of the aquatic creature feature subgenre and redefined it with simplistic methods. With a shark that rarely worked, POV shots took the ...

Although nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Henry VIII in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, audiences now may know Robert Shaw best for his role as Captain Quint in the 1975 film Jaws.