Hank Searls
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Hank Searls | |
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| Born | Henry Hunt Searls August 10, 1922 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | February 17, 2017 (aged 94) Gig Harbor, Washington, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist and screenwriter |
| Alma mater | United States Naval Academy |
Henry Hunt Searls (August 10, 1922 – February 17, 2017)
Career
Hank Searls' 1960 novel, The Crowded Sky, was made that same year into a feature movie featuring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Anne Francis, and Troy Donahue.
Set in the USAF's
Searls' novel The Pilgrim Project was adapted as the 1968
Based on his own novel of the same title, Searls wrote the screenplay for the 1978
Searls' other military and aviation-themed novels included: The Astronaut (1962), Pentagon (1971), Hero Ship (1969), The Big X (1959), and Altitude Zero (1991). His other writings were Firewind (1981), Sounding (1982), Blood Song (1984), Kataki (1987), and The Adventures of Mike Blair (1988). He also wrote the novelizations of the movies Jaws 2 in 1978 and Jaws: The Revenge in 1987.
In the book "Console Wars" (2014) by Blake Harris, the popular Sega Genesis game Ecco the Dolphin (1992) is said to be inspired by Searls' novel "Sounding", though the reference is anonymized. Ed Annunziata, designer of Ecco and its sequel, allegedly thought of the concept for the game while reading the novel.[3]
Selected bibliography
- The Crowded Sky (1960) (novel)
- The New Breed "No Fat Cops" (1961) (TV episode)
- The Fugitive "Never Wave Goodbye: Part 1 & 2" (1963) (TV episode)
- Convoy "The Man with the Saltwater Socks" (1965) (TV episode)
- Kraft Suspense Theatre "Streetcar, Do You Read Me?" (1965) (TV episode teleplay)
- Felony Squad "A Date with Terror" (1966) (TV episode)
- The Pilgrim Project (novel), adapted in 1968 as Countdown
- O'Hara, U.S. Treasury "Operation: Offset" (1971) (TV episode)
- The Lost Prince: Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (biography), adapted for TV as Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977)
- Overboard (1978) (novel and teleplay)
- Jaws 2 (novelization) 1978
- Wheels (1978) TV mini-series writer
- Jaws: The Revenge (novelization) 1987
References
- ^ "Henry H. "Hank" Searls Jr. Obituary (1922 - 2017) Los Angeles Times". Legacy.com.
- ^ "Hank Searls | Memorial Tribute". memorial.yourtribute.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-05.
- ^ @edannunziata (May 15, 2020). "Thinking about it, who inspired me and Ecco the most?Hank Searls. No drugs, no counter-culture bs, just great wri…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
External links
- Hank Searls at IMDb
- Hank Searls' bibliography at Fantasticfiction.co.uk
- Hank Searls at SciFan
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