I hadn't seen Jaws in many years,so decided to watch it. It was good and really liked Robert Shaw. I learned he died about 3 years after making that, age 51. that shocked me. what actors died too young?

I thought many people loved the movie "Jaws". I guess I was wrong.

Jack Webb 62, Dorothy Killgallen 52, Frank Sutton 50.

I know every line to jaws lol it’s one of my favorites there are so many funny undertones in that movie if you listen...

Here’s to swimin with bow legged women lol

have you heard of the 27 club? More famous people have died at 27 then any other number

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

I had just seen Jaws when I went on my honeymoon
to Mexico.

I could NOT go in the damn water to save my life.
I tried, many times but I swear I saw dorsal fins
in every shadow.

I have not been in the ocean since.

Ricky Nelson died too young (he babysat me once!)
Jeffrey Chandler. Heath Ledger. Paul Walker.
RIP.

Jaws is one of those, what I like to call, Perfect Movies.
It spawned a whole industry of shark films but wasn't the first.
It had a nice balance of components needed to capture a wide ranging audience.
Meg 2018 with Jason Stathum is releasing soon.
Somehow, I doubt it will be as popular as Jaws.
It's a difficult thing to find anyone that likes movies that has not seen or heard of Jaws. Plus, the film inspired a real-life paranoia resulting in large numbers of Great White Sharks being hunted.

Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. ~ wiki


Was NOT the event that inspired Jaws.

12 Days of Terror (2004)
Based on true events that occurred 1—12 July 1916 in Central and Southern New Jersey, as recounted in the book of the same name by Richard Fernicola, the film recounts the 12 days during which people along the Jersey coast were subject to attacks by a shark (in the film it is a great white shark). Initially, the authorities hesitated to take action, and the issue of sacrificing the safety of human beings for the sake of business was raised. After the second attack, modest precautions were taken, and scientific experts and civil authorities published assurances that area beaches had been made safe again. On 12 July a shark was sighted swimming into the freshwater canal of Matawan Creek—one expert who had come to capture the animal speculated that this indicated a bull shark. Children and young adults swimming upstream in the creek were attacked. After the shark was finally captured offshore, an autopsy was performed, and it is said that 15 pounds of human flesh with bones were found in its stomach. In the end, four people had been killed and a fifth badly injured. The remains of one young boy were never recovered. ~ wiki

Richard Fernicola's book was published in 2001
Peter Benchley's book was published in 1974

Benchley had read some research books and seen the 1971 documentary Blue Water White Death. After Doubleday commissioned the book, Benchley then started researching all possible material regarding sharks. Among his sources were Peter Matthiessen's Blue Meridian, Jacques Cousteau's The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Sea, Thomas B. Allen's Shadows In The Sea, and David H. Davies' About Sharks And Shark Attacks. ~ wiki

Benchley also wrote

The Deep 1977
Hunters of the Reef (TV Movie) 1978
Jaws 2 1978
Jaws 3-D 1983
Jaws: The Revenge 1987
Jaws (Video Game) 1987
Cruel Jaws (TV Movie) 1995
The Beast (TV Mini-Series) 1996 (about a giant squid)
Creature (TV Mini-Series) 1998 (about a mutated shark)
Jaws Unleashed (Video Game) 2006
Jaws: Ultimate Predator (Video Game) 2011

Peter Benchley Died: February 11, 2006 (age 65) in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Source: IMdb

You left out Sharknado, 1-6

Shark steaks can be pretty tasty,
if properly grilled.

Peter Benchley wrote "Jaws" and "The Deep" and Richard Shaw was in both of those movies.

Elvis

I liked him in the Movies!!

Quite the Romantic

It was scary! Speaking of the First Jaws. After that, the rest was all down hill.

First One a person didn't know what to expect!

And then there's this....

Those shark attacks that happened in 1916 were something, if you read the history and know it inspired the book "Jaws". I grew up not far from there I had my own boating nightmare in those EXACT same waters, Raritan River by South Amboy, went out to Raritan Harbor. It lasted about 14 hours hours and a lot at night. July 4th in the 1980's. There were no sharks involved but it was some trip. That boat was much smaller than the Orca. It got me off of boats.

Benchley had read some research books and seen the 1971 documentary Blue Water White Death. After Doubleday commissioned the book, Benchley then started researching all possible material regarding sharks. Among his sources were Peter Matthiessen's Blue Meridian, Jacques Cousteau's The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Sea, Thomas B. Allen's Shadows In The Sea, and David H. Davies' About Sharks And Shark Attacks. ~ wiki
Benchley was not basing the work on the 1916 New Jersey shark attacks.
That was the point of how I posted what I did, because the tag on 12 Days of Terror is bogus.
If anything, the Blue Water White Death documentary was what influenced Jaws the most.

Those shark attacks did happen on the NJ shore.

Yes, but contrary to popular belief, they did not inspire Peter Benchley to write Jaws. His main inspiration came from the documentary Blue Water White Death 1971.

The film 12 Days of Terror was directly inspired from the 1916 shark attacks in New Jersey.
12 Days of Terror was released in 2004. Jaws was written/published in 1974.