Peter Viertel
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Born to writer-actress Salka and writer Berthold Viertel in Dresden, he grew up in Santa Monica after the family emigrated in 1928, graduated Dartmouth College in 1941, joined the Marine Corps and was soon recruited by the OSS, where his German fluency and early literary success - the novel The Canyon (1940) and a screenplay for Hitchcock’s Saboteur (1942) - earned him a commission as a second lie…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources