Matt Hooper is the double denim, hat wearing, prezel eating shark expert with the infectious laugh and city hands. Played by Richard Dreyfuss, who was BAFTA nominated for his role.
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Matt Hooper is the double denim, hat wearing, prezel eating shark expert with the infectious laugh and city hands. Played by Richard Dreyfuss, who was BAFTA nominated for his role.
Scientists are like superheroes (in fact, some of them sort of are superheroes) but what sets Matt Hooper from Jaws apart from all the rest? We take a look at a selection of other famous movie scientists to see how they compare.
What happened after Hooper and Brody used the yellow barrels to swim back to the shores of Amity Island at the end fo Steven Spielberg’s Jaws? This short story by Darren DeBari offers one explanation.
Jaws fan Daniel Carver shows us his amazing tattoos of Quint, Hooper and Brody and tells us what Richard Dreyfuss and Ian Shaw made of them.
The first cinematic scientist to make science cool, hip and dangerous, Hooper continues to inspire shark lovers around the world, young and old. But what happened to Matt Hooper after Jaws?
Apryl Boyle, President & Executive Director of El Porto Shark shares how Jaws inspired her to become a real life Matt Hooper with the mission to replace shark fear with shark facts.
Scheider… Shaw…. Dreyfuss. Names that will always be synonymous with Jaws. The 3 stars have families of their own - 15 children between them. In this article, we take a look at the lives and careers 3 of those children, Ben Dreyfuss, Christian Scheider and Ian Shaw.
Jaws is a near perfect movie but one line has bugged fans for nearly 50 years. Here’s the true story behind ‘that’ line during the famous autopsy scene.
The intense relationship between Jaws actors Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw is movie making legend. However, the experience of working with Shaw stayed with Dreyfuss long after shooting Jaws had wrapped.
For Jaws actor Richard Dreyfuss it was a case of show me the way to go Rome as he attended the Capri Hollywood Gala in the Italian city.
Richard Dreyfuss talks about what happened behind the scenes of his most memorable films and why he doubted 'Jaws' would be a success.
In amongst the dino action in the sneak peek at the opening of jurassic world dominion, the eagle-eyed may have spotted an early Richard Dreyfuss film, American Graffiti, which he made just two years before he played Matt Hooper in Jaws.
Be it a ComicCon, halloween (Jaws-o-ween) or just for the heck of it, Jaws fans will use any excuse to dress as their favourite character. Get the look of the young shark expert with our Matt Hooper costume guide below.
Richard Dreyfuss actor Liam Murray-Scott says that Jaws-inspired play The Shark Is Broken raises the roof on opening night
Guest blogger Anoush Froundjian examines how we can find a Brody, a Hooper and a Quint in our everyday lives.
Hooper himself, actor Richard Dreyfuss swaps the shark cage for a marquee in this year’s Celebrity Bake Off
On 27th June 2019, Richard Dreyfuss visited London for a very special evening. And The Daily Jaws was there.
It doesn’t matter how smart he is, or whether or not he knows the scientific names of sharks. Hooper is faced with Brody’s desperation to put the pieces together and just get home, and with Quint’s budding wildness as he starts spiraling in his need to catch and kill the shark.
On Valentine’s Day, we revisit the original bromance, move over Riggs and Murtaugh, Hooper and Brody are in town.
Matt Hooper may have been in sharks but it looks like the actor who played him in Jaws, Richard Dreyfuss, is in CGI sharks as he recently told Deadline that the beloved mechanical Bruce should get a CGI makeover.
The battle against the shark was one thing, but that was nothing compared to the frisson between Hooper and Quint, and if it seemed realistic it was because it allegedly was.
And if his role as Matt Hooper put Dreyfuss at the top of the cinema tree, then it was Spielberg's follow up that cemented it. Spielberg, Dreyfuss, Production Designer Joe Alves and Composer John Williams were all back; this time however they weren't after a bigger boat but more of a bigger spaceship.
IN A RECENT poll on my Twitter, I posed the question “Who is your favourite character in Jaws?”, including of course the three main characters, and then a rather tongue in cheek fourth option of Bruce the Shark. I wasn’t too surprised tofind Quint come out on top with 41% of the vote, but I was incredibly surprised to find Hooper placing in third position with just 19%, just one place ahead of the ever reliable Bruce!
Richard Dreyfuss is an American actor. He is best known for starring in popular films between the 1970s and 1990s, including American Graffiti, Jaws, Stand by Me, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, The Goodbye Girl, Tin Men, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob?, and Mr. Holland's Opus.