What Happened To The Stars Of Jaws The Revenge

Once ‘Vengeance’ the shark had either exploded or sunk to the bottom of the ocean (depending on what version you were watching/enduring) the cast obviously went their different ways. But where did they go?

Lorraine Gary

Playing Ellen Brody was Lorraine Gary’s most memorable hour. In Jaws she was given a role that was well written and that she played with tenderness, bravery and wit. Sadly, by the time The Revenge limped into view, the character looked like she’d just had enough of all this killer shark stuff.

Lorraine retired from acting after the final (so far) Jaws movie and chose to concentrate on her civic activities. She is a member of the Human Rights Watch Woman’s Rights Advisory Committee and has directed and produced a series of educational films. She is also an Advisory Board Member of Ms Magazine and Girls Learn International.

Jaws The Revenge star Lorraine Gary with husband Sid Sheinberg

Lance Guest

The role of the adult Michael Brody was followed by The Wizard of Loneliness alongside Lea Thompson (last seen frolicking on the beach in Jaws 3D but who would shine as Lorraine Banes McFly in the Back to the Future movies) and Lukas Haas who that same year would play Samuel in the Harrison Ford starred, Witness. Guest played Uncle John who little Lukas comes to stay with during World War II. It’s quite a cute film about a child’s imagination and how it pulls him through a difficult time.

There was a jump of 9 years and then Guest was back in Plan B, a small film about how when old friends get together, they often complain about how things didn’t turn out how they thought they would. The movie stars John Cryer and is a sort of ‘what happened after the last scene in St Elmo’s Fire’ when the characters look around and see that the world’s moved on and they’re not the responsible free kids any longer.

In 2001 he appeared as Keith Dorman, a passenger on Concorde. A direct to video action movie about the aircraft being hijacked with a US Senator onboard who’s trying to stop the war in the Balkans. There’s also a computer disk that people get shot over and some other people go off a cliff in a car and then there’s a broken radio and lots of wobbly shots of Concorde flying and dodging missiles. It’s a bit like if Airplane was pretending really hard to be a serious action flick.

2007 saw him in short movie, Shadowbox and in 2008 he appeared in The Least Of These. 2009 was the year of 21 and a Wake Up, a well received movie about the last few days of America in Vietnam and the 24th Evacuation Hospital. A full cast including Faye Dunaway, Ed Begley Jr, Wes Studi and Tom Sizemore make this very watchable.

In 2014 Guest was in Late Phases, a great little werewolf movie where Guest plays a man who is incredibly suspected of being the hairy monster because he’s got an asthmatic wheeze! Good movie though.

In 2017 he made Traces and then in 2022 he appeared as himself in In Search of Tomorrow, a documentary for anyone who fell in love with everything from Star Wars to ET, Jaws, Close Encounters and Back to the Future and beyond. Lots of interviews and clips with those who brought these movies to life in front of and behind the camera. It was released in February 2022.

Mario Van Peebles

In Jaws The Revenge he was Jake, the science dude who made an electrical thingy that got put in the shark’s mouth and brought about its demise but after this thrilling episode, Peebles went on to work in numerous movies, including notable roles in New Jack City (1990) with Wesley Snipes, the heist/revenge western Posse (1992) starring and directed by Peebles, Highlander III: The Sorcerer (1994), Ali (2001) where he played Malcolm X to Will Smith’s Muhammad Ali and a really solid TV movie called Ten Thousand Black Men Named George about the conductors on the Pullman cars on American Railroads. All black men who were Porters were referred to as George and Peebles stars as A. Philip Randolph, the union activist who fought to organise the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the face of massive racist protests. In 2003 Peebles played his own father in Baadasssss! A movie examining the promotion of his father’s movie Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song in 1971 and how this movie gave birth to the Blaxploitation genre and highlighted to white Hollywood that there was a huge audience for movies that didn’t just star white actors.

His work continues on TV mostly but in 2016 he directed the movie, USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage. It’s a nice through-line to Quint’s speech in Jaws but really the movie is not up to scratch with an extremely low rating right across the reviews. It’s a shame as this story still deserves to be told.

Karen Young

There was lots of screaming to be done in Revenge and Young applied herself well as Carla Brody, wife of Michael.

Once Revenge was done, Young continued to work regularly, mostly on TV, with roles in long running TV franchises like the various CSI spinoffs, Law & Order and the all-conquering The Sopranos where for 10 episodes she played FBI Agent Robyn Sanseverino.

Sir Michael Caine

Plays Hoagie, Pilot and romancer of Ellen Brody. Jaws The Revenge was one of the infamous movies Caine said he did for the pay check and even though he plays the role with his usual starry twinkle, you can tell he doesn’t exactly think it’s Shakespeare. But has he ever played Shakespeare? It doesn’t matter.

Caine claims never to have seen the movie but says he has seen the house it bought so at least that’s something. He also famously missed picking up an Oscar for Hannah and Her Sisters because he was still filming Jaws 4…

Caine obviously didn’t let himself be held back by the movie and continues to have act in movies, at the age of 89. Some of the stand out roles have been:

The Fourth Protocol (1987)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

The Muppet Christmas Carol - officially the best version of the classic Dickens story (1992)

Cider House Rule (1999)

Batman Begins (2005)

The Prestige (2006)

The Dark Knight (2008)

Harry Brown (2009)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Words by Tim Armitage

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