Hank Searls, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Hank Searls

American novelist and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1922

Date of Death: 17-Feb-2017

Profession: screenwriter, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Henry Hunt "Hank" Searls (August 10, 1922 - February 17, 2017) was an American author and screenwriter.
His novels included The Crowded Sky (1960), which was adapted as a film with Dana Andrews and Rhonda Fleming, The Penetrators (1965, writing as Anthony Gray), and The Pilgrim Project (1964), which was adapted as the 1968 film Countdown.
Searls also wrote the novelizations for the films Jaws 2 (1978) starring Roy Scheider and Murray Hamilton and Jaws: The Revenge (1987) starring Michael Caine and Lorraine Gary.