Who died while filming Jaws?

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Roy Scheider, who died from multiple myeloma
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at 75, is remembered for one of the greatest movie
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Who died from the movie Jaws?

Peter Benchley

Benchley died in 2006 at the age of 65, as reported by Variety.
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Was Robert Shaw drunk while making Jaws?

'Jaws' actor Robert Shaw got drunk with Steven Spielberg's 'permission' Jaws, which was adapted from Peter Benchley's book, is legendary for its own reasons. Many of them have to with how things went down behind the scenes.
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Were any real sharks used in Jaws?

'Jaws' filmed a great white shark attacking the boat

They needed to make the scene with Hooper (played by Richard Dreyfuss) in the cage look legit, and they hired professional shark photographers to capture images. However, the sharks appeared too small.
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Did Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw like each other?

Dreyfuss and Shaw disagreed about plenty of things

Although Dreyfuss and Shaw initially got on well, things changed when it came to getting into character (via Bio.com): "He was an enormous personality, and he radiated it, and in private he was the kindest, gentlest, funniest guy you ever met.
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Did anyone get hurt filming Jaws?

The Orca sinks

No, not “Orca,” the 1977 “Jaws” ripoff starring Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling. I'm talking about the Orca, the boat used by Quint, Brody and Hooper to track and kill the shark that sinks in the script and also sank in real life with cast and crew on board thanks to an accident during filming.
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Who was the first person eaten by a shark?

The first victim was 25-year-old Charles Vansant, who went out for an evening swim in Beach Haven, New Jersey. Something grabbed his leg and tore away a huge chunk of flesh. He eventually bled out from the injury. At the time, there was uncertainty about whether the man-eating creature was actually a shark.
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Was Jaws Based on a true story?

No. Jaws is not a true story. It is based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The Jaws author had a lifelong fascination with sharks and said that he came up with the concept for the novel after reading about a great white shark that had been caught by fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964 (pictured below).
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How many sharks died after Jaws?

Since the release of Jaws in 1975, shark populations have only fallen catastrophically. Over the last half-decade, populations of sharks and rays (a close evolutionary relative) have decreased by 71%. More than 100 million sharks are killed each year, and over 30% of all shark and ray species are considered threatened.
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Did the cast of Jaws get along?

Shaw and Dreyfuss hated each other

Much like the characters they played, actors Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss did not get along during much of the shooting of Jaws. In fact, Shaw often taunted Dreyfuss in between takes.
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What happened to Chief Brody from Jaws 2?

On Amity Island, Martin Brody, famous for his role as the police chief and his heroism, has died from a heart attack. Martin's widow, Ellen, still lives in Amity, close to her younger son, Sean, and his fiancée, Tiffany. Sean works as a police deputy.
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What happened to Hooper after Jaws?

Richard Dreyfuss was then ironically working on Spielberg's Close Encounters of The Third Kind. Had Spielberg directed Jaws 2 it's likely Dreyfuss would have appeared again. In the novel, Hooper is killed by the shark when he is in the shark cage, however in the film, he survives.
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Which shark has killed the most humans?

The two bites were delivered about 15 seconds apart.
  • The three most commonly involved sharks.
  • The great white shark is involved in the most fatal unprovoked attacks.
  • The tiger shark ranks as the second most fatal in unprovoked attacks.
  • The bull shark ranks as the third most fatal in unprovoked attacks.
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Can a great white bite you in half?

surfer was bitten in half after losing a desperate fight for his life with two Great White sharks. Brad Smith, 29, was surfing off the Western Australian coast when a huge shark 'as wide as a car' lunged out of the water and snapped his board in half.
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Has a shark ever eaten a dog?

Dog taken by a shark at a Sydney beach as owners are warned not to let their pets paddle too far out. Swimmers and dog owners have been warned off entering the water near Kurnell Peninsular, south of Sydney, after a dog was eaten by a shark.
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Why is the shark in Jaws 2 burned?

A portion of this shark's face and jaws were severely burnt in a boating attack and the boat's subsequent explosion. Later, the shark is electrocuted by Brody after being lured into biting an electrical cable, then set on fire near a small power station known as Cable Junction.
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What happened during the filming of Jaws?

During filming the Orca sprung a leak and started sinking to the briny deep. According to the making-of documentary, The Shark Is Still Working, when the boat started sinking Spielberg shouted: “Get the actors off the boat.” In response, sound engineer John Carter said: “F**k the actors, save the sound department.”
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Was Sean Connery friends with Robert Shaw?

“Of course, you'll remember he came to a sticky end, at the hands of James Bond, but Shaw told me that he and Sean Connery were very close friends, and he had a great admiration for Connery's ability as an actor.”
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Why did Richard Dreyfuss turn down Jaws 2?

Richard Dreyfuss, who played Matt Hooper in Jaws, said he chose not to return in Jaws 2 due to Spielberg not directing it.
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Why did Roy Scheider not do Jaws 2?

It is one of the barrels from the first Jaws (1975). Roy Scheider did not originally want to appear in this film, but had recently left the production of The Deer Hunter (1978), which led to conflicts with Universal Pictures, with whom he was locked into a multi-film contract.
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Was there a meteor shower during the filming of Jaws?

The shooting stars in Jaws aren't the only streaking lights to cameo in a Spielberg film. Spielberg's dad, Arnold Spielberg, woke the future film director when he was a child and took him to a hill that was packed with people looking skyward, where they witnessed a spectacular meteor shower.
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Was Jaws filmed in a swimming pool?

So Spielberg recruited a small crew and reshot the scene in film editor Verna Fields' backyard swimming pool in Encino, California. To make the clear, chlorinated water match the murkier look of the ocean, crew members poured a gallon of milk into the pool.
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